MINORITY INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TRAINING (MIRT)

描述(改编自应用程序)：这是从 加州大学圣克鲁斯分校提议继续其长期 积极吸纳代表性不足的少数族裔学生和教职员工的目标 关于阿根廷(巴塔哥尼亚海岸)的行为和生物医学相关研究 以及位于墨西哥索诺拉的加利福尼亚州海湾。这项研究将继续 主要关注沿线几种脊椎动物的生物学 巴塔哥尼亚和加利福尼亚州海湾海岸。MIRT的学生将参与到 对污染物流失对食物链影响的长期调查 特别是加利福尼亚州海湾对顶级捕食者指数物种的影响 海洋哺乳动物、鸟类和人类。食物链和渔业的健康 加利福尼亚州海湾对人类健康和经济产生了巨大影响 墨西哥的公民。在阿根廷，研究将集中在生理学研究上 南方象和海豹，这是一个意想不到的模型 哺乳动物肥胖，生理性的长期禁食和禁水。 这些研究的结果已被证明具有临床意义。 在美洲和美国对几种严重的人类疾病的管理 环太平洋地区。这些疾病包括肥胖、糖尿病和心血管疾病以及 儿童早期发育和营养不良和/或引起的病理 饿死了。自1993年，当UCSC-MIRT最初获得资金以来，该计划 培养了57名本科生/研究生，其中19人被录取 博士学位课程。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted From Application): This is a competitive renewal from the University of California, Santa Cruz that proposes to continue its long-term objective of actively engaging underrepresented minority students and faculty on behavioral and biomedically relevant research in Argentina (Patagonia coast) and the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico. The research will continue to focus, primarily, on the biology of the several vertebrate species along the Patagonian and Gulf of California coasts. MIRT students will be involved in long term investigations of the effects run off pollutants on the food web of the Gulf of California especially the impact on top predator index species of marine mammals, birds and humans. The health of the food chain and fisheries of the Gulf of California has enormous health and economic consequences for the citizens of Mexico. In Argentina, studies will focus on physiological studies of the Southern elephant and seal which serves as a unexpected model of mammalian obesity, the physiological long term food and water abstinence. Results of these investigations have been shown to have clinical implications in the management of several severe human pathologies in the Americas and the Pacific Rim. These include obesity and diabetes and cardiovascular diseases and early childhood development and pathologies resulting from malnutrition and/or starvation. Since l993, when the UCSC-MIRT was initially funded, the program has trained 57 undergraduate/graduate students, of which 19 have admitted to PH.D programs.