Vanderbilt Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates

描述（由申请人提供）：此申请要求资金建立一个夏季研究经验计划的本科生在范德比尔特大学。该计划将是跨机构的，来自医学院和艺术与科学学院的研究人员将参与其中。28名研究人员积极参与生物系统的定量研究，并有兴趣为本科生提供研究经验，已被选为导师。该小组的研究兴趣的广度，确保将有丰富的夏季研究机会，本科生从定量和物理科学参与当代生物医学研究项目。学生将通过生物医学研究，教育和培训（BRET）的既定办公室在全国范围内招募。10名参与者将从申请人池中选出的程序主任和咨询委员会组成的三个既定的调查人员都有悠久的历史的学生培训。参与者将在其中一位导师的实验室进行为期十周的研究项目。一个夏季研讨会系列将需要在生物医学研究的当代领域的每周研讨会之前，介绍研究主题和该地区的背景讲座。学生将参加每周两天的专业课程，提供辅助技能指导以及生物化学和分子生物学介绍。项目主任将与参与者每两周举行一次会议，以跟踪研究进展，并提供一个讨论项目有效性和职业机会的论坛。来自该计划的导师，他们自己已经从定量科学过渡到生物医学科学的研究，将参加这些会议，以提供他们的职业道路的描述。在十周结束时，学生将提交一份描述他们的项目的摘要，并向其他参与者和项目导师展示他们的发现。参与者将被要求每年更新他们的职业道路上的一个计划的网站，以便这种培训经验的长期影响可以进行评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds to establish a Summer Research Experiences Program for Undergraduates at Vanderbilt University. The program will be trans-institutional with investigators from the School of Medicine and from the College of Arts and Science participating. Twenty-eight investigators that have active research programs involving quantitative studies on biological systems and having an interest in providing a research experience for undergraduate students have been chosen as preceptors. The breadth of research interests of this group ensures that there will be a wealth of summer research opportunities for undergraduate students from the quantitative and physical sciences to participate in contemporary biomedical research projects. Students will be recruited nationally through the established office of Biomedical Research, Education, and Training (BRET). Ten participants will be selected from the applicant pool by the Program Director and the advisory committee composed of three established investigators all of whom have a long history of student training. Participants will carry out research projects in the laboratory of one of the mentors for a ten-week period. A Summer Seminar Series will be required in which weekly seminars in contemporary areas of biomedical research are preceded by a lecture that introduces the research topic and the background to the area. Students will enroll in a specialized class that meets two days per week that provides instruction on ancillary skills and an introduction to biochemistry and molecular biology. The program director will have biweekly meetings with the participants in order to keep track of research progress and to provide a forum for discussion of program effectiveness and career opportunities. Mentors from this Program, who themselves have made a transition from the quantitative sciences to research in the biomedical sciences, will attend these meetings to provide a description of their career paths. Near the end of the ten-week period, students will submit an abstract describing their projects and present their findings to the other participants and the Program mentors. Participants will be asked to annually update their career paths on a Program web site so that long-term impact of this training experience can be evaluated.