Toward Diversity: A Metagenomics Workshop for Undergraduate Cohorts

描述（由申请人提供）：在2010年至2014年的夏季，我们将以成功的试点为蓝本，举办多个为期一周的研讨会，重点是为未被充分代表的学生群体提供密集的研究经验。来自波多黎各大学、历史悠久的黑人学院和大学、部落学院和中西部STEM项目残疾学生联盟的学生将学习实验室技能，参与解决问题和科学思考，并接受研究人员的指导。我们预测，学生将获得科学研究的欣赏和热情，并开始认同为研究人员。我们希望这次研讨会能促进研究生院的招生。学生将有机会在世界知名的宏基因组学实验室分享研究经验，学习理论知识和适用于生物医学研究的技术技能。拟议的研讨会将把具有挑战性的研究问题与支持性的环境和专门的导师结合起来。本课程将以宏基因组学为重点，为学生提供学习推动人类微生物组计划（http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp/）和许多其他生物医学研究领域的前沿科学和技术的机会。此外，当他们完成研讨会后，一些人将返回他们的本科院校，在与威斯康星大学PI合作的顾问的指导下，他们将继续在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校开展的研究。两所大学的学生、教职员工将保持联系并分享研究成果。这种合作将加强科学，并为学生提供文化相似和不同的导师。参加威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校中西部项目的学生将被安排在研究实验室。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the summer months of 2010 to 2014 we will hold multiple week-long workshops modeled on a successful pilot and focused on providing cohorts of underrepresented students with intensive research experiences. Students from the University of Puerto Rico, historically black colleges and universities, tribal colleges, and the Midwest Alliance1 for Students with Disabilities in STEM (Midwest) program will learn laboratory skills, engage in problem-solving and scientific thinking and receive mentoring from researchers. We predict that the students will gain an appreciation of and enthusiasm for scientific research and begin to identify as researchers. We hope this workshop will enhance recruitment of the students to graduate school. The students will receive opportunities for shared research experiences in a world-renowned metagenomics laboratory to learn both theoretical knowledge and technical skills applicable to careers in biomedical research. The proposed workshop will combine challenging research problems with a supportive environment and dedicated mentors. The course will focus on metagenomics, providing students with the opportunity to learn cutting-edge science and the technology driving the Human Microbiome Project (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp/) and many other areas of biomedical research. Moreover, when they complete the workshop, some will return to their undergraduate institutions where, under the direction of an advisor collaborating with the PI at UW, they will continue the research initiated at UW-Madison. The students, staff, and faculty at both institutions will remain in contact and share research results. This collaboration will enhance the science and provide students with culturally similar and dissimilar mentors. Students in the Midwest program who attend UW-Madison will be placed in research laboratories. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The course will focus on metagenomics, providing underrepresented students the opportunity to learn cutting edge science and the technology driving the Human Microbiome Project (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp/) and many other areas of biomedical research. Underrepresented students will receive opportunities for shared research experiences in a world-renowned metagenomics laboratory to learn both theoretical knowledge and technical skills applicable to careers in biomedical research.