Collaborative Cross-Disciplinary Research in Ecology, Endocrinology and Molecular Biology

9605157个昆茨五个研究团队，每个团队由两名本科生和两名教职员工组成，将致力于不同的协作跨学科项目。波士顿大学REU项目的目的是促进学生和研究生物学家之间的合作研究，这些生物学家的学科传统上只有一个重点。每个研究项目由一名生物生物学家(生态学家或行为学家)和一名内分泌学家或分子生物学家指导，每个项目主题源于实地研究。这些主题包括雌激素在鱼类视觉处理中的作用，地下水污染物对淡水生物繁殖的影响，瘦素在温带冬眠蝙蝠摄食生态中的作用，热带雨林中沿梯度的遗传多样性和生态系统功能，以及社会昆虫觅食生态学和味觉生物学。教师导师是根据他们的学术贡献以及他们与本科生合作的经验和兴趣而精心挑选的。学生将从波士顿大学和美国东部提供有限研究机会的四年制学院和大学中挑选出来。招生工作将针对少数民族、女性和身体残疾的学生。遴选将根据申请者的学术能力、研究潜力和以前的经验进行。道德操守部分将包括关于科学价值观和诚信的每周研讨会和讲习班，报告和调查不当行为的指控，对动物的道德待遇，记录保存和数据管理，以及负责任的作者身份。

9605157 Kunz Five research teams, each consisting of two undergraduate students and two faculty members, will work on different collaborative cross-disciplinary projects. The purpose of Boston University's REU program is to promote collaborative research between students and research biologists whose disciplines have traditionally had a single focus. Each research project is directed by an organismal biologist (ecologist or ethologist) and an endocrinologist or molecular biologist, and each project topic stems from field research. Such topics include the role of estrogen in visual processing in fish, the impact of ground-water contaminants on reproduction of freshwater organisms, the role of leptin in the feeding ecology of a temperate-zone hibernating bat, genetic diversity and ecosystem function along gradients in a tropical rain forest, and social-insect foraging ecology and the sensory biology of taste. Faculty mentors have been carefully selected on the basis of their scholarly contributions and their experience and interest in working with undergraduates. Students will be selected from Boston University and from four-year colleges and universities in the eastern United States that provide limited research opportunities. Recruitment efforts will target minority, women, and physically-challenged students. Selection will be based on scholarly aptitude, research potential, and previous experience of the applicants. An ethics component will include weekly seminars and workshops on values and integrity in science, reporting and investigating allegations of misconduct, ethical treatment of animals, record-keeping and data management, and responsible authorship.