REU Site: Research in Prokaryotic Biology

该REU网站奖授予位于佐治亚州雅典的佐治亚大学，将在2015-2017年夏季为10名学生提供为期9周的培训。本课程将向本科生介绍微生物研究领域，并提高他们对微生物学职业的认识。来自科学界代表性不足的群体的学生，包括失聪和听力障碍学生以及少数民族的学生，都被鼓励参加这个项目。REU参与者在居住在几个部门的教师导师的监督下进行独立项目，包括但不限于：微生物学，海洋科学和传染病。所有提供了各种各样的研究课题，解决原核生物的功能。目前的技术将用于跨学科的方法，结合遗传学、生物化学、生物信息学、生理学、分子生物学、细胞生物学和生态学等领域的知识。研究项目将涉及广泛的问题，包括原核生物在环境和地球化学过程中的作用。参与者将参加研讨会，以熟悉研究生院申请和微生物学的职业。学生申请通过课程网站以电子方式提交。有竞争力的学生将由教师委员会选出。参与者将通过使用通用评估工具（SALG URSSA）评估REU计划的质量。预计总共将有30名学生，主要来自研究机会有限的学校，将在该项目中接受培训。学生将学习如何进行研究，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。此外，学生将与教师举行非正式会议，参加科学研讨会，参与科学伦理问题的讨论，并参加实验室小组的定期研究会议。学生们将在夏季结束时以海报形式展示他们的研究成果。学生在项目结束后需要被跟踪，并且必须回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://mib.uga.edu/programs，或联系PI （Vincent J. Starai博士vjstarai@uga.edu）或副PI （Diana Downs博士dmdowns@uga.edu）。

This REU Site award to the University of Georgia, located in Athens, Georgia, will support the training of 10 students for 9 weeks during the summers of 2015-2017. This program will introduce undergraduates to areas of microbial research and increase their awareness of careers in microbiology. Students from groups that are underrepresented in the scientific community, including deaf and hard-of-hearing students and ethnic minorities, are encouraged to participate in the program. REU participants conduct independent projects under the supervision of faculty mentors residing in several Departments including, but not limited to: Microbiology, Marine Sciences, and Infectious Diseases. All provide a variety of research topics that address the functions of prokaryotic organisms. Current techniques will be used in interdisciplinary approaches that combine knowledge from the fields of Genetics, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Ecology. Research projects will address broad questions including the role of prokaryotes in environmental and geochemical processes. Participants will attend workshops to become familiar with graduate school application and careers in microbiology. Student applications are submitted electronically through the program website. Competitive students will be selected by a committee of faculty. Participants will assess the quality of the REU program by use of a common assessment tool (SALG URSSA).It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. Furthermore, students will have informal meetings with faculty, attend scientific seminars, participate in discussions of ethical issues in science, and join the regular research meetings of their lab groups. Students will present their research results at the end of the summer in a poster session. Students are required to be tracked after the program and must respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information is available by visiting http://mib.uga.edu/programs, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Vincent J. Starai at vjstarai@uga.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Diana Downs at dmdowns@uga.edu).