Expanding the impact of the Summer Internship for Native Americans in Genomics (SING) short course

项目摘要/摘要 我们建议继续并扩大为期六天的关于原住民基因组学的夏季短期课程的影响 对基因组学有背景和兴趣的美国大学生。的短期目标 这项名为基因组学美洲原住民暑期实习(SING)的计划是为了培训原住民 美国学生学习下一代基因组和生物信息学分析并培养科学能力 美洲原住民社区研究。此外，SING计划还建立了一个支持网络 STEM领域的土著学者。我们通过增加额外的SING短期课程 在大学举办SING短期课程的地点，这些大学已制定了涉及土著人民的研究方案 和基因组学在美国不同的地理区域。SING短期课程的部分内容将被量身定做 关于该地理区域土著人民的具体问题，并将利用 主办机构的教职员工。具体来说，我们建议在香港大学举办SING短期课程。 2017年，亚利桑那州大学开设了一个关于癌症基因组学和精确健康的专门模块 2018年在华盛顿开设了药物基因组学专业模块，然后回到伊利诺伊大学 在Urbana-Champaign，开设了转录学和表观遗传学的专门模块。SING的专业技术 主办大学提供的师资和资源为教育当地人提供了丰富的环境 美国学生，并与土著社区一起解决基因组学的重要问题。我们独一无二的短片 分子生物学、生物信息学和ELSI战略转型方面的重要实践培训课程 对科学界代表性不足的少数群体进行教育。该计划将继续 经验性评估，并继续作为其他机构的榜样。

Project Summary / Abstract We propose to continue and expand the impact of a six-day summer short course on genomics for Native American college and university students with a background and interest in genomics. The short-term goals of the program, entitled the Summer Internship for Native Americans in Genomics (SING), are to train Native American students in next-generation genomic and bioinformatics analyses and to build capacity for scientific research of Native American communities. Additionally, the SING program builds a support network for indigenous scholars in the STEM fields. We expand the impact of the SING short course by having additional venues of the SING short course at universities with established research programs involving indigenous peoples and genomics in different geographic regions of the United States. Parts of the SING short course will be tailored to specific issues of indigenous peoples of the geographic region and will take advantage of the expertise of faculty of the host institutions. Specifically, we propose to convene the SING short course at the University of Arizona in 2017 with a specialized module on cancer genomics and precision health, the University of Washington in 2018 with a specialized module in pharmacogenomics and then back at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a specialized module in transcriptomics and epigenetics. The expertise of the SING faculty and resources available at the host universities provide enriching environments to educate Native American students and tackle important problems of genomics with indigenous communities. Our unique short course with significant hands-on training in molecular biology, bioinformatics and ELSI strategies transform education for underrepresented minorities in the scientific community. This program will continue to be empirically evaluated and continue to serve as a model for other institutions.