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

项目总结/摘要 我们建议继续并扩大为期六天的夏季基因组学短期课程的影响， 具有基因组学背景和兴趣的美国大学生。短期目标是 该项目名为“美国原住民基因组学暑期实习”（SING）， 美国学生在下一代基因组和生物信息学分析，并建立科学能力， 美国原住民社区的研究。此外，SING计划还建立了一个支持网络， STEM领域的土著学者。我们扩大了SING短期课程的影响， 在有土著人民参与的既定研究方案的大学开设SING短期课程的地点 和基因组学在美国不同地理区域的应用。SING短期课程的部分内容将根据 土著人民的具体问题，并将利用 主办机构的教师。具体而言，我们建议在香港中文大学举办SING短期课程， 亚利桑那大学在2017年开设了一个关于癌症基因组学和精准健康的专业模块， 华盛顿在2018年与一个专门的模块在药物基因组学，然后回到伊利诺伊大学 在厄巴纳-香槟分校有一个转录组学和表观遗传学的专门模块。SING的专业知识 东道国大学的师资和资源为培养当地人提供了丰富的环境 美国学生和土著社区一起解决基因组学的重要问题。我们独特的短 在分子生物学，生物信息学和ELSI战略转化方面进行重要实践培训的课程 教育在科学界代表性不足的少数群体。该计划将继续 经验评估，并继续作为其他机构的模式。

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.