REU: Project O.A.K. (Opportunities Alliance Network)

本提案要求为汉普顿大学生物科学系（汉普顿，弗吉尼亚州）的一个REU站点提供三年的资助。生物科学系建议为来自华盛顿-巴尔的摩汉普顿路少数民族参与科学联盟（WBHR-AMPS）联盟其他HBCU的本科生，特别是女性，少数民族和残疾人提供植物生理学，病理学和分子生物学的实验室研究经验。夏季研究经验，项目O.A.K.（机会联盟网络），将集中在组织培养繁殖的“解放橡树”后代的无病幼苗。“解放橡树”是一棵维吉尼亚栎，位于维吉尼亚汉普顿大学校园内。壳斗科的一员，超过450种观赏树木和灌木组成了壳斗科。橡树可以很容易地从橡实繁殖，在肥沃、适度湿润的土壤或干燥的沙质土壤中生长良好。橡树耐寒且寿命长，但不耐阴，可能受到食叶生物或橡树枯萎菌的伤害。该计划已经使用橡子繁殖了一些树木，但它们仍然容易受到疾病的影响。该计划建议培训学生使用组织培养来繁殖解放橡树的无病培养。O.A.K. REU项目将有三个主要特点：1)提供研究机会；2)向学员所在院校提供可转换学分的课程；3)为少数民族学生提供参与HBCU植物研究的机会。参加者将接触到许多微生物、生物化学和分子技术。

ABSTRACT Camellia Okpodu DBI# 9987900This proposal requests three years funding for an REU Site at Hampton University in the Department of Biological Sciences (Hampton, Virginia). The Department of Biological Sciences proposes to provide laboratory research experience in Plant Physiology, Pathology and Molecular biology to undergraduate students, particularly women, minorities and the disabled, from other HBCU's in the established Washington-Baltimore Hampton Roads Alliance for Minority Participation in Science (WBHR-AMPS) consortium. The summer research experience, Project O.A.K. (Opportunities Alliance network), will center on tissue culture propagation of disease-free seedlings from offspring of the "Emancipation Oak".The "Emancipation Oak", a Quercus virginiana, is located on the campus of Hampton University in Hampton Virginia. A member of the Fagaceae family, over 450 species of ornamental trees and shrubs make up the genus. Oaks can be propagated easily from acorns and grown well in rich, moderately moist soil or dry sandy soil. Oaks are hardy and long-lived but not shade-tolerant and may be injured by leaf-eating organisms or oak wilt fungus. The program has used acorns to propagate a few trees however they will still be susceptible to diseases. The program proposes to train students in the use of tissue culture to propagate disease-free cultures from the Emancipation Oak.The Project O.A.K. REU will have three main features it will: 1) offer research opportunities; 2) offer course work with transferable credit hours to the participants home institution; and 3) provide minority students the opportunity to participate in plant research at an HBCU. Participants will be exposed to many microbiological, biochemical and molecular techniques.