A Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Development Biology

该奖项为生物学部门提供资金， 华盛顿大学的生物医学科学继续 成功的REU网站。 每年夏天，来自不同学院的大约36名本科生 和种族背景的人将花10周的时间 发育生物学的研究 导师 将由学生从大约40名教师中选出 拥有活跃的、资金充足的研究小组的成员， 在广泛的研究发展机制， 实验系统 重点将放在让每个 学生积极参与日益独立 在这些富有成效的研究小组之一进行研究。 然而，为了让学生以一种 在更广泛的背景下，该计划将提供五种类型的 补充活动：（一）研讨会， 重要模式生物、方法和范例 当代发育生物学研究，（二）教师 （三）专门为学生设计的课程; 参与现有的发育生物学杂志 俱乐部，㈣一个平行的期刊俱乐部，由 学生自己和（五）夏季结束时的研究 所有学生都要提交论文的务虚会 总结他们的研究成果。 机会 对于频繁的同伴群体社交互动， 提供了

This award provides funds to the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University to continue a successful REU Site. Each summer, about 36 undergraduates from diverse collegiate and ethnic backgrounds will spend 10 weeks engaged in developmental biology research at the University. Mentors will be selected by the students from about 40 faculty members who have active, well-funded research groups and who study developmental mechanisms in a wide range of experimental systems. The emphasis will be on getting each student actively engaged in increasingly independent research in one of these productive research groups. However, to permit students to view their own research in a broader context, the program will provide five types of supplemental activities: (i) workshops dealing with important model organisms, methods and paradigms in contemporary developmental biology research, (ii) faculty seminars designed specifically for the students, (iii) participation in the existing Developmental Biology Journal Club, (iv) a parallel journal club run by and for the students themselves and (v) an end-of-summer research retreat at which all students will present papers summarizing their research accomplishments. Opportunities for frequent peer-group social interactions will also be provided.