BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING AT COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The INBRE network provides an ongoing basis for the continuing development of training of students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences at College of the Atlantic (COA). The early graduates of this program have successfully entered graduate school in the biomedical sciences, and current students and recent graduates are working in local laboratories as research assistants and gaining valuable experience and expertise in molecular biology. Over the summer of 2006 we had students working at The Jackson Laboratory and Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL). As part of this work, we have continued to try to offer new courses to engage students in the INBRE-related fields. We have initiated two new courses this year related to INBRE, an intensive course in Methods in Developmental Biology that is being taught over spring break in March 2007 at MDIBL by Dr. J. Coffman, and an introduction to programming course taught by COA math faculty Dr. David Feldman. Several courses, including the new programming course, have been enhanced with a new set of mobile portable computers that we are using to support two classes per term. We continue to work with our contacts at MDIBL and The Jackson Laboratory to develop the best ways to train students in comparative genomics and other related fields. Students are now following a pattern of working full-time as research assistants in the summer, continuing some work during the academic year, and working for 1-2 years post-graduation before going for advanced degrees in INBRE related fields. Our contact with researchers at other INBRE institutions has continued to increase, and multiple COA faculty are beginning to pursue collaborations with researchers at those institutions.