Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Developmental Biology

每年，将从全国各地的高校中选出20名学生（10名由NSF REU基金资助，10名由地方基金资助），在6月初至8月中旬的10周时间里，在华盛顿大学的50多名潜在教师导师之一的指导下，进行深入的发育生物学研究。该计划的重点将是让所有的学生在活跃的、富有成效的实验室中迅速参与有趣的研究项目，并帮助他们尽可能快地朝着成为独立研究人员的方向前进。然而，学生也将被提供各种各样的补充活动，旨在帮助他们发展他们的科学人格的其他方面；这些将包括：(i)由教师领导的一系列每周研讨会和讲习班，向学生介绍现代发育生物学的主要模型系统、方法和范例。（ii）在每个暑期项目的第二周，将在附近的Meramec州立公园举行一个专门讨论研究伦理问题的夜间静修活动。（iii）退修会的后续活动将在每两周举行的伦理论坛上进行，参与者将讨论每次由不同学生小组编写的场景所提出的研究伦理问题。（iv）每隔一周，这些学生会议将专门讨论发育生物学杂志俱乐部。（有相应兴趣和经验的研究生将担任这两种每周会议的组织者和主持人。）(v)项目将以为期一天的本科生研究研讨会结束，每位参与者将在研讨会上做一个报告，总结她/他的暑期研究成果。

Each year, 20 students (10 to be supported by NSF REU funds, and 10 to be supported by local funds) will be selected from colleges and universities around the country to spend a ten week period between early June and mid-August at Washington University, in order to engage in intensive developmental-biology research under the guidance of one of the more than 50 potential faculty mentors. The emphasis of the program will be on getting all of the students quickly engaged in interesting research projects in active, productive laboratories, and on aiding them to move as quickly and as far as possible in the direction of becoming independent research investigators. However, the students will also be provided with an assortment of supplemental activities designed to aid them in developing other aspects of their scientific personae; these will include: (i) A series of weekly seminars and workshops led by faculty, in which students will be introduced to the leading model systems, methods and paradigms of modem developmental biology. (ii) An overnight retreat devoted to discussion of issues and problems in research ethics will be held at nearby Meramec State Park in the second week of each summer program. (iii) A follow-up to the retreat will occur at the bi-weekly Ethics Forum, in which participants grapple with issues in research ethics raised by scenarios prepared by a different group of students each time. (iv) In alternate weeks these student meetings will be devoted to a Developmental Biology Journal Club. (A graduate student with appropriate interests and experience will serve as organizer and moderator of these two kinds of weekly meetings.) (v) The program will conclude with a day-long Undergraduate Research Symposium, in which each of the participants will make a presentation summarizing her/his summer's research accomplishments.