Toward Diversity: A Metagenomics Workshop for Undergraduate Cohorts

项目摘要 在2010年至2014年的夏季月份，我们将仿照一项成功的试点项目，举办多个为期一周的研讨会，重点为代表人数不足的学生提供密集的研究经验。来自波多黎各大学、历史上的黑人学院和大学、部落学院和中西部STEM(中西部)残疾学生联盟的学生将学习实验室技能，参与解决问题和科学思考，并接受研究人员的指导。我们预测，学生将获得对科学研究的欣赏和热情，并开始认同为研究人员。我们希望这次研讨会将促进研究生的招生。这些学生将有机会在世界著名的元基因组学实验室分享研究经验，学习适用于生物医学研究职业的理论知识和技术技能。 拟议的研讨会将把具有挑战性的研究问题与支持性环境和专职导师结合起来。该课程将侧重于元基因组学，为学生提供学习尖端科学和推动人类微生物组计划(http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp/))和许多其他生物医学研究领域的技术的机会。此外，当他们完成研讨会后，一些人将返回他们的本科院校，在那里，他们将在与威斯康星大学PI合作的顾问的指导下，继续在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校发起的研究。这两个机构的学生、教职员工将保持联系，分享研究成果。这一合作将增强科学性，并为学生提供文化上相似和不同的导师。中西部项目中就读于威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的学生将被安排在研究实验室。

Project Abstract In the summer months of 2010 to 2014 we will hold multiple week-long workshops modeled on a successful pilot and focused on providing cohorts of underrepresented students with intensive research experiences. Students from the University of Puerto Rico, historically black colleges and universities, tribal colleges, and the Midwest Alliance1 for Students with Disabilities in STEM (Midwest) program will learn laboratory skills, engage in problem-solving and scientific thinking and receive mentoring from researchers. We predict that the students will gain an appreciation of and enthusiasm for scientific research and begin to identify as researchers. We hope this workshop will enhance recruitment of the students to graduate school. The students will receive opportunities for shared research experiences in a world-renowned metagenomics laboratory to learn both theoretical knowledge and technical skills applicable to careers in biomedical research. The proposed workshop will combine challenging research problems with a supportive environment and dedicated mentors. The course will focus on metagenomics, providing students with the opportunity to learn cutting-edge science and the technology driving the Human Microbiome Project (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp/) and many other areas of biomedical research. Moreover, when they complete the workshop, some will return to their undergraduate institutions where, under the direction of an advisor collaborating with the PI at UW, they will continue the research initiated at UW-Madison. The students, staff, and faculty at both institutions will remain in contact and share research results. This collaboration will enhance the science and provide students with culturally similar and dissimilar mentors. Students in the Midwest program who attend UW-Madison will be placed in research laboratories.