REU: Biology of Endophytic Fungi: An Integrative Approach

该奖项为东北密苏里州立大学(NMSU)科学部提供资金，以继续成功的NSF-REU项目。在1993年和1994年的暑假期间，7名本科生将获得经济资助，使他们能够参加集中的、全日制的研究体验。为了展示其对本科生研究的坚定承诺，NMSU将做出几项贡献，包括：文书支持，免费的校园食宿，以及免除学生参与者的3个大学学分的学杂费。来自NMSU的3名学生和4名校外学生以及7名教师导师将组成一个研究小组，专注于单一系统的研究：草/真菌内共生。学生的选择将基于他们的独立性和动机、研究潜力和专业目标。学生和导师之间的讨论将构成将学生与特定研究领域配对的基础。学生将从事广泛的研究领域，从真菌生物碱的化学分析，到含有真菌的草的生态和生理意义，再到真菌生物碱对昆虫和哺乳动物消费者的影响。中心重点将整合不同层次的生物组织的研究，并将有助于促进小组成员之间的团结和社区。该项目包括让学生与他人交流他们的工作的几个机会，包括对他们的发现进行必要的口头陈述，旨在培养学生对项目的所有权。

This award provides funds to the Northeast Missouri State University (NMSU) Science Division to continue a successful NSF-REU program . During the summers of 1993 and 1994 seven undergraduate students will be given financial support to allow them to participate in and intensive, full-time research experience. As demonstration of its strong commitment to undergraduate research, NMSU will make several contributions, including: clerical support, free on-campus room and board and a waiver of tuition and fees for 3 college credits to student participants. Students, 3 from NMSU and 4 from off-campus, and 7 faculty mentors will form a research team, focusing on the study of a single system: grass/fungi endosymbioses. Students will be selected based on their independence and motivation, research potential, and professional goals. Discussions between student and mentor will form the basis for matching students to specific research areas. Students will work in research areas that range widely from chemical analysis of fungal alkaloids, to ecological and physiological implications for grasses of harboring a fungus, to effects of fungal alkaloids on insect and mammalian consumers of the fungus. The central focus will integrate study at different levels of biological organization and will help foster unity and community among group members. The program includes several opportunities for students to communicate their work to others, including a required oral presentation of their findings, and is aimed to develop project ownership by the student.