Western New York Genetics in Research and Health Care Partnership

纽约西部遗传学研究和医疗保健合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 8496164
• 负责人: Shannon M Carlin-Menter
• 金额: $ 26万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8496164
• 关键词: Active Learning; Area Health Education Centers; Bioinformatics; Biology; Buffaloes; Career Choice; Clinical; Collaborations; County; Department of Energy; Disadvantaged; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Faculty; Family Practice; Genes; Genetic; Genome; Genomics; Goals; Health; Health Occupations; Health Sciences; Health Services Research; Healthcare; Individual; Institutes; Internships; Intervention; Joints; Knowledge; Laboratories; Lead; Link; Medical; Mentorship; New York; Participant; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Scholarship; Schools; Science; Students; Support System; System; Systems Analysis; Teacher Professional Development; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Work; base; career; college; design; experience; falls; genome annotation; high school; interest; medical schools; member; microbial genome; programs; public health relevance; rural area; symposium; teacher; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Western New York Genetics in Research and Health Care Partnership will develop an ongoing partnership with disadvantaged schools across a 14-county region that will serve as a pipeline for teacher and student recruitment, training and mentorship in bioscience, with a particular focus on genetics. It is designed to support career paths for students in both scientific research and the health professions, emphasizing assistance to those from underrepresented and disadvantaged groups, as well as to familiarize teachers with basic bioinformatics concepts that they can introduce into their classrooms. The Partnership will be led by the PIs, representing the University at Buffalo Department of Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences (BCLS) and the NYS Area Health Education Center System, which has its Statewide Office based in the University at Buffalo Department of Family Medicine. Members will include the Erie Niagara AHEC and WNY Rural AHEC, along with the 15 to 25 school districts that will be invited to join over the 5-year project period. At project start, AHEC analysis will identify disadvantaged school districts serving underrepresented populations. Each year, 3 to 5 districts will be invited to join the Partnership, making them eligible for teacher training (total 20 teachers per year) and technical support for advanced experiential learning projects and a Capstone Symposium (total 100 students per year). Twenty biology teachers annually from the partnering schools will attend a two-week summer workshop at the University at Buffalo where they will receive training in use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes Annotation Collaboration Toolkit (IMG-ACT) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute. During the fall semester of each school year, AHEC will organize 4-5 health/science college and career exploration sessions to familiarize students with the gene annotation project and to give it some "real world" context. Students will develop career plans by the last of these sessions as well as indicate their interest in doing gene annotation during the spring semester. Each teacher will then work with at least 5 students (100 total per year) to participate in genome annotation using the IMG-ACT during the school year. Each spring, the Capstone Symposium will be held at UB, bringing participating students and teachers together to present their projects and network with researchers and employers. AHEC will track and offer support (e.g., scholarship and career information, new internship opportunities) to participating students as they enter and progress through college, supporting entry to and retention in research and health careers in the region.

描述（由申请人提供）：西纽约遗传学研究和卫生保健合作伙伴关系将与14个县地区的弱势学校建立持续的伙伴关系，这将成为教师和学生招聘，培训和指导生物科学的管道，特别关注遗传学。它的目的是支持学生在科学研究和卫生专业的职业道路，强调援助那些来自代表性不足和弱势群体，以及熟悉教师与基本的生物信息学概念，他们可以引入到他们的课堂。该伙伴关系将由PI领导，代表布法罗大学生物技术和临床实验室科学系（BCLS）和纽约州地区健康教育中心系统，该系统在布法罗大学家庭医学系设有全州办事处。成员将包括伊利尼亚加拉AHEC和WNY农村AHEC，以及沿着15至25个学区，将被邀请参加在5年的项目期间。在项目开始时，AHEC分析将确定为代表性不足的人口服务的弱势学区。每年将邀请3至5个地区加入伙伴关系，使他们有资格参加教师培训（每年共20名教师）和高级体验式学习项目的技术支持以及顶点研讨会（每年共100名学生）。每年，来自合作学校的20名生物学教师将参加在布法罗大学举行的为期两周的夏季研讨会，在那里他们将接受美国能源部联合基因组研究所综合微生物基因组注释协作工具包（IMG-ACT）使用方面的培训。在每个学年的秋季学期，AHEC将组织4-5场健康/科学学院和职业探索会，让学生熟悉基因注释项目，并赋予它一些“真实的世界”背景。学生们将在最后一节课之前制定职业计划，并在春季学期表示他们对基因注释的兴趣。然后，每位教师将与至少5名学生（每年总计100名）合作，在学年期间使用IMG-ACT参与基因组注释。每年春天，顶点研讨会将在UB举行，将参与的学生和教师聚集在一起，介绍他们的项目和网络与研究人员和雇主。AHEC将跟踪并提供支持（例如，奖学金和职业信息，新的实习机会），以参与学生进入和通过大学的进步，支持进入和保留在该地区的研究和卫生事业。