Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in Genomic Medicine (SURE-GM)

夏季本科生基因组医学研究体验(SURE-GM)旨在提供接触 为阿拉巴马州历史悠久的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)正在崛起的大三学生提供基因组医学研究。这个 该项目是阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校和哈德逊·阿尔法生物技术研究所在 亚拉巴马州亨茨维尔学生是通过邮寄和在可能的情况下亲自访问HBCU的方式招募的。 州政府。该计划是为两个夏天的体验而设计的。第一个夏天是在哈德逊阿尔法度过的 教学和实践相结合的实验室体验，旨在使学生熟悉遗传学和 基因组学以及基本的实验室实践。这一点很重要，因为许多进入该项目的学生都有 很少或根本没有接触过遗传学、基因组学或在实验室工作过。第二个夏天是在UAB度过的， 在实验室的资深教员和同事的指导下，在研究实验室工作。一个数字 还提供职业咨询、研讨会和活动。学生们在最后展示了一张关于他们工作的海报 在UAB的第二个夏天。在该计划的五年中，来自不同HBCU的41名学生参加了 这个项目。该项目的资金将于2023年8月到期，预计将于#年提交申请。 对今年夏天将发布的新的多样性行动计划RFA的回应。与此RFA相关的资金不会 可以及时招收2024年夏天的新一批学生。为了保持连贯性 计划，补充资金将允许一组学生参加一个为期一年的计划在 2024年夏天。因为这将排除对一个为期两年的项目的承诺，即遗传学入门年， 基因组学和实验室实践将从该项目中省略，并将招收较少数量的学生 他们以前有过在实验室工作的经历。尽管发生了这种变化，但继续提供 该计划不间断，以促进UAB和HudsonAlpha与世界上许多HBCU建立的关系 州政府。因此，在2024年夏季，补充资金将支持一年制项目，学生将在该项目中 有机会选择在UAB的研究实验室工作，或在HudsonAlpha与教员研究员或 一家位于哈德逊阿尔法校园的生物技术公司。与以往一样，将举办研讨会，目的是 为学生提供职业咨询，并让学生有机会在暑期结束时介绍他们的工作。 值得注意的是，这是一项延长2023年9月1日履约期所需资金的提案-- 2024年8月31日

The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Genomic Medicine (SURE-GM) is intended to provide exposure to research in genomic medicine to rising juniors from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in Alabama. The program is a collaboration of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, AL. Students are recruited through mailings and, where possible, in-person visits by study staff to HBCUs in the state. The program is designed as a two-summer experience. The first summer is spent at HudsonAlpha with a combination of didactic and hands-on laboratory experiences intended to familiarize students with genetics and genomics as well as basic laboratory practices. This is important, since many students who enter the program have had little or no previous exposure to genetics, genomics, or to work in a laboratory. The second summer is spent at UAB, working in a research laboratory under the mentorship of a senior faculty member and associates in their lab. A number of career counseling seminars and events are provided as well. Students present a poster on their work at the end of the second summer at UAB. During the five years of the program, 41 students from a variety of HBCUs have participated in the program. Funding for this program is set to expire in August 2023 and an application is expected to be submitted in response to the new Diversity Action Plan RFA to be issued this summer. Funding associated with this RFA would not be available in time to recruit a new group of students for the summer of 2024. In order to maintain continuity of the program, supplemental funding will allow matriculation of a group of students to attend a one-year program in the summer of 2024. Because this would preclude commitment to a two-year program, the introduction year to genetics, genomics, and laboratory practice will be omitted from the program and a smaller number of students will be recruited who have had some previous exposure to work in a laboratory. Despite this change, it is important to continue to offer the program uninterrupted, to foster established relationships of UAB and HudsonAlpha with many of the HBCUs in the state. Hence, for the summer of 2024 supplemental funds would support a one-year program where students will have the opportunity to choose to work either at UAB in a research laboratory or at HudsonAlpha with a faculty investigator or a biotechnology company hosted on the HudsonAlpha campus. As in the past, seminars will be provided intended to provide career counseling to students and an opportunity for students to present their work at the end of the summer. Of note, this is a proposal for an extension with funds requested for the period of performance of September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2024.