Summer Research Program for Diversity Students in PharmacoNeuroImmunology

项目摘要/摘要 药物神经免疫学(PNI)R25夏季研究计划提供了6个未被充分代表的项目 本科学生的多样性每年都会增加密集的基于实验室的研究经验 他们参与生物医学研究生研究项目。R25 PNI项目是一个成功的夏天 到目前为止，该计划已经培训了16名本科生的多样性(另外6名将在#年夏天到来 2020)。暑期研究计划源于我们由NIDA资助的T32 PNI培训计划， 它将提供敬业的专家教师导师和博士后和博士后实习生社区，以积极 培训和指导暑期学生，支持PNI暑期项目的使命。有一口井- 认识到有必要在跨学科和翻译领域培训生物医学科学家，重点是 滥用药物与神经系统和免疫系统的相互作用，并整合了我们对这些系统的理解 与其行为相对应的生理交互作用。我们将通过提供密集的10- 每周的研究经验，将为符合条件的本科生提供必要的学术 和研究技能，以确保他们进入职业生涯的下一个阶段--即博士--的竞争力 课程或医学院。PNI暑期计划是综合生命科学本科的一部分 明尼苏达大学研究计划(LSSURP)。PNI暑期计划由一个 以实验室为基础的密集研究经验，需要与计划密切互动并由计划指导 31名专注于药物滥用研究的教职员工。这项实验室工作还补充了一项 综合教育课程，其中包括由项目教员就生物医学主题举行的研讨会 研究、伦理和实验室安全，以及一个聚焦学生研究海报的研讨会。创新的 我们PNI计划提案的组成部分是提供带有小组讨论的教育模块。此外, LSSURP和T32 PNI培训计划的校友Jesse L.Mason博士将提供一系列课程 针对PNI暑期学生，目标是作为一个多元化的学生来应对逆境。为了支持 R25暑期计划，我们提出了两个具体目标：1)提供跨学科的结构化研究 在PNI领域的经验，特别是与药物滥用有关的经验；和2)为毕业生提供技能 生物医学科学方面的职业。这些成功的人将反过来成为未来学生的榜样。 对研究事业感兴趣。每年将收集三个评估指标：1)评估 参与该项目的本科生和教职员工进行为期10周的暑期研究。 这项评估将以两种方式来自LSSURP调查和PNI特定调查；2)PNI计划 它本身将得到咨询委员会的支持，以核实我们在#年实现了计划的目标 多样化招聘和有效的研究经验；以及3)对符合以下条件的学生进行结果评估 在节目中。我们将跟踪去年夏天PNI学员在生物医学科学方面的职业生涯。

Project Summary/Abstract The R25 Summer Research Program in PharmacoNeuroImmunology (PNI) provides 6 underrepresented undergraduate students of diversity each year an intensive laboratory-based research experience to increase their participation in biomedical graduate research programs. The R25 PNI program is a successful summer program which has trained 16 undergraduate students of diversity to date (additional 6 coming in the summer of 2020). The summer research program stems from our well-established NIDA-funded T32 PNI training program, which will provide engaged expert faculty mentors and a community of pre- and post-doctoral trainees to actively train and mentor the summer students supporting the mission of the PNI summer program. There is a well- recognized need to train biomedical scientists in an interdisciplinary and translational field that focuses on the interactions of drugs of abuse with the nervous and immune systems, and integrates our understanding of these physiological interactions with their behavioral counterparts. We will accomplish this by offering an intensive 10- week research experience that will provide qualified undergraduate students of diversity the necessary academic and research skills to ensure their competitiveness toward entering the next phases of their career - i.e., doctoral programs or medical school. The PNI summer program is part of the comprehensive Life Science Undergraduate Research Program (LSSURP) at the University of Minnesota. The PNI summer program is composed of an intensive laboratory-based research experience that entails close interaction with and mentorship by a program faculty member (n=31) that focuses on drug abuse research. This laboratory work is supplemented by a comprehensive educational curriculum, which includes seminars by program faculty on topics in biomedical research, ethics, and laboratory safety, and a focused student research poster symposium. An innovative component of our PNI program proposal is to deliver education modules with small group discussion. In addition, Dr. Jesse L. Mason, an alumnus of LSSURP and the T32 PNI training program, will provide a series of sessions for PNI summer students targeted toward dealing with adversity as a diverse student. To support the goal of the R25 Summer program, we propose two specific aims: 1) To provide an interdisciplinary structured research experience in the area of PNI, especially as it pertains to drug abuse; and 2) To provide skill sets for graduate careers in biomedical sciences. Those successful individuals will, in turn, act as role models for future students interested in research careers. Three measures of evaluation will be collected on a yearly basis: 1) Assessment of the 10 week summer research experience by participating undergraduate students and faculty in the program. This assessment will come in two ways from the LSSURP survey and a PNI specific survey; 2) The PNI program itself will be supported by the Advisory Committee to verify that we are meeting the goals of the program in diversity recruitment and effective research experience; and 3) Outcome assessment of the students that were in the program. We will track the careers in biomedical sciences of the past summer PNI trainees.