REU Site: Chemistry Research Addressing Biological Problems

化学部支持本科生（REU）网站在波士顿大学（BU）的2007年至2009年夏天的研究经验。 该计划主任约翰斯奈德将协助共同PI约翰斯特劳布在为期十周的夏季计划。 学生将从本科院校和社区学院招募，本科研究机会有限，并将从事使用基础化学科学来解决生物系统中的基本问题的项目。 该研究涵盖传统化学学科，包括计算机模拟淀粉样肽聚集以探测阿尔茨海默病，开发光化学技术以检测人类病原体，以及以发现新型生物探针和新药候选物为目标的有机合成。国家的最先进的仪器培训将允许学生使用这些工具在他们的研究需要。 研讨会和REU小组会议将说明在解决生物学问题的研究工作的相互关联性。 演讲技巧将在个别研究小组的会议以及整个BU本科研究社区在夏季结束，多学科研究研讨会磨练。

The Division of Chemistry supports this Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Boston University (BU) for the summers of 2007-2009. The program director John Snyder will be assisted by co-PI John Straub in the ten-week summer program. Students will be recruited from undergraduate institutions and community colleges with limited opportunities for undergraduate research and will work on projects that use the basic chemical sciences to address fundamental questions in biological systems. The research ranges across traditional chemical disciplines and includes computer simulations of amyloid peptide aggregation to probe Alzheimer's disease, development of photochemical techniques to detect human pathogenic organisms, and organic syntheses targeting the discovery of novel biological probes and new drug candidates. Training on state-of-the-art instrumentation will allow students to use these tools in their research as needed. Workshops and REU group meetings will illustrate the interrelatedness of the research efforts in solving biological problems. Presentation skills will be honed in meetings of individual research groups as well as within the entire BU undergraduate research community in a summer-ending, multidisciplinary research symposium.