MU Alcohol Research Training Summer School (MU-ARTSS)

 描述(由申请者提供)：这份R25申请的R25“NIH暑期研究体验计划”建议开发和部署一个为期9周的酒精研究暑期研究计划，目标是完成两年大学教育的本科生。该计划的主要目的是为本科生准备接受健康相关科学学科的高级培训，重点是与酒精相关的研究。每年将从全国申请者库中挑选7名学生，主要重点是招收STEM和生物医学学科中代表性不足的少数群体的学生。密苏里-哥伦比亚大学的“密苏里大学酒精研究培训暑期学校”(MU-ARTSS)计划将由为期一周的酒精研究强化讲座组成(涵盖的主题包括概念和定义、流行病学、遗传学、神经药理学、神经生理学、个体差异、发育方法、评估和治疗等)。以及负责任的研究和人类受试者问题。这些讲座的补充是移动和动态评估、结构和功能神经成像的实验室演示，以及对人体受试者的酒精实验室管理。在为期一周的酒精研究入门课程之后，学生们开始在实验室里由一位指导酒精研究的导师进行为期8周的实习。所有学生都被要求制定一个项目提案，进行文献回顾，进行相关的数据分析，并为正式的海报报告和正式口头报告准备他们的项目。MU-ARTSS的其他活动包括：(1)每周的“红包”研讨会，涵盖具体的研究技能、研究项目的持续状态更新和专业发展问题，以及(2)每周的“电影之夜”，放映和讨论有关酒精的经典电影，跨越80多年的电影史，以帮助学生了解与他们的工作相关的临床现象。除了MU-ARTSS的具体活动外，学生还将参加由MU本科生研究室提供的多个项目，我们称之为MU-Summer本科生研究项目。在这里，学生们在多个场所与研究人员和来自校园各地的学生互动，包括专业发展系列，更多关于负责任的研究行为的指导，一堂严肃的讲座，以及项目结束海报会议。通过这种方式，MU-ARTSS的学生将有机会在科学界变得更广泛地社会化，并欣赏他们自己以外的学科的工作。该计划利用了心理科学系对酒精研究的强烈重视，以及目前正在进行的大量活跃的酒精研究计划。拟议的计划将把研究生和博士后层面的正规酒精培训重点(目前由T32和K05支持，部分由拟议的计划主任提供)扩大到全国各地的本科生。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This R25 application for an R25 "NIH Summer Research Experience Program" proposes to develop and field a 9 week summer research program in alcohol research, targeted at undergraduate students who have completed two years of college education. The program is broadly aimed at preparing undergraduate students for advanced training in health related scientific disciplines focusing on alcohol-related research Each year seven students will be drawn from a national pool of applicants with a major emphasis in recruiting students from under-represented minority groups in STEM and biomedical disciplines. The proposed program, the "MU Alcohol Research Training Summer School" (MU- ARTSS) at the University of Missouri - Columbia, will consist of a one-week intensive set of didactic lectures on alcohol research (covering topics such as concepts and definitions, epidemiology, genetics, neuropharmacology, neurophysiology, individual differences, developmental approaches, assessment and treatment, etc.) and responsible conduct of research and human subjects issues. These lectures are supplemented by laboratory demonstrations of mobile and ambulatory assessment, structural and functional neuroimaging, and laboratory administration of alcohol to human subjects. Following the week-long introduction to alcohol research, students embark on an 8-week internship in the lab of a mentor conducting alcohol research. All students are required to develop a project proposal, conduct a literature review, conduct relevant data analyses, and prepare their project for both a formal poster presentation and a formal oral presentation. Other MU-ARTSS activities include: (1) weekly "brown bag" seminars covering specific research skills, ongoing status updates on research projects, and professional development issues, and (2) weekly "movie nights" where classic films about alcohol spanning more than 80 years of film history are shown and discussed in order to help students gain an appreciation of the clinical phenomena to which their work relates. In addition to MU-ARTSS specific activities, students will participate in multiple programs offered by the MU Office of Undergraduate Research which we refer to as the MU-Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Here students interact with research faculty and students from across campus in multiple venues including a Professional Development series, more extended instruction in the responsible conduct of research, a lecture serious, and an end-of-the-program poster session. In this way, MU- ARTSS students will have a chance to become more broadly socialized in the community of science and appreciate work in disciplines outside their own. The program draws on the Department of Psychological Science's strong emphasis on alcohol research and the large number of active alcohol research programs currently ongoing. The proposed program will expand the formal alcohol training emphasis at the graduate and postdoctoral levels (currently supported, in part, by a T32 and K05 to the proposed program director) to undergraduates from across the country.