BP-ENDURE: The St. Louis Neuroscience Pipeline

该申请将重新支持圣路易斯的BP-ENDURE项目，以培养在神经科学领域代表性不足的本科生。该基金的目的是为来自三个合作机构的学生提供严格和关键的神经科学培训：华盛顿大学、密苏里大学圣路易斯市分校。路易斯和哈里斯-斯托州立大学。通过在两年的研究、教育和网络经验中每年支持8名新生，该提案将建立一条通往研究生院的管道。该管道强调口头和书面科学交流，发现科学和拓展经验的持续培训。我们力求成为一个响应研究环境变化的项目，帮助我们的学生追求重要和创新的问题和概念，采用新技术，并与同龄人和公众进行有效沟通。该培训将通过三门互动式沉浸式课程、暑期全日制和非全日制学年在神经科学实验室进行与学生兴趣和背景相匹配的研究，以及在会议上发表演讲，创建一个年轻神经科学家的社区。管道为导师提供密集的讲习班。课程和研究环境将保持广泛和深入，结合分子，细胞和系统级方法研究神经功能和功能障碍的专业知识。旨在实现这些目标的主要新举措包括：1)在我们的合作机构开设一门新课程，以发展未来研究人员的网络；2)引入“持久突触”课程，这是一门加强神经科学基础、文学阅读和演讲技能以及学生群体意识的课程；3)为神经科学脑蜂协会的本科生提供指导经验，作为他们科学交流培训的一部分；4)完善一个近乎同侪指导的项目，让研究生和本科生一起工作，本科生和高中生一起工作。这些举措将确保我们的学生始终处于神经科学研究、教学和推广发展的最前沿。

This application would renew support for the BP-ENDURE program in St. Louis to train undergraduate students underrepresented in the neurosciences. The objective of the grant is to provide rigorous and critical training in neuroscience to a diverse cohort of students from three partner institutions: Washington University, the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Harris-Stowe State University. By supporting 8 new students per year over two years of research, education, and networking experiences, this proposal will establish a Pipeline to graduate school. The Pipeline emphasizes sustained training in oral and written science communication, discovery science and outreach experience. We seek to be a Program that responds to changes in the research environment by helping our students to pursue important and innovative problems and concepts, to adopt new techniques and to communicate effectively with their peers and the general public. The training will create a community of young neuroscientists through three interactive and immersive courses, full-time summer and part-time academic year research in a neuroscience lab matched to the student’s interests and background, and presentations at conferences. The Pipeline provides intensive workshops for mentors. The curriculum and research environments will remain broad and deep, combining expertise in molecular, cellular and systems-level approaches to the study of neural function and dysfunction. Major new initiatives aimed at accomplishing these goals include: 1) creation of a new course at our Partner Institutions to develop the network of future researchers, 2) the introduction of ENDURE-ing Synapses, a course to bolster neuroscience fundamentals, literature reading and presentation skills and a sense of community among the students, 3) mentoring experiences for undergraduates in the Society for Neuroscience Brain Bee as part of their training in science communication, and 4) refinement of a near peer-mentoring program that has graduate students working with undergraduates and undergraduates working with high school students. These initiatives will ensure our students remain at the forefront of developments in neuroscience research, teaching and outreach.