REU Site: Next generation Evolutionary Biology

位于俄亥俄州哥伦布市的俄亥俄州立大学的REU Site奖将在2017-2019年夏季支持10名学生为期10周的培训。该计划将招募正在崛起的大二和大三学生与进化、生态和组织生物学系的研究导师合作，利用前沿的分子生物学和信息学技术解决有关植物、微生物或动物之间进化关系的问题，以获得大规模并行的DNA序列数据。除了培养研究项目设计、数据收集和分析方面的技能外，该项目还将专注于学生的专业发展，包括与工业、自然资源管理和哥伦布动物园的生物学家会面。学生将通过网站、对本科生团体的招聘访问和社交媒体进行招聘。学生和潜在导师之间的匹配将由一个遴选委员会完成，该委员会包括PI和一组潜在导师，他们将考虑学生的研究兴趣和专业目标。预计共有30名学生将在该计划中接受培训，这些学生主要来自研究机会有限的学校。来自不同背景的学生将从俄亥俄州立大学路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟的机构和俄亥俄州农村的俄亥俄州地区校园招募。由于目标人群是正在崛起的大二和大三学生，REU项目包括广泛的职业探索和职业发展，预计这些将显著增加对学生的影响，因为他们把握了随后的学术和职业机会。学生将学习研究是如何进行的，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。由生物基础设施部(生物科学局)资助的所有REU项目都将使用一个通用的基于网络的评估工具来确定培训计划的有效性。项目结束后，将对学生进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。学生将被要求回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。欲了解更多有关该计划的信息，请访问http://eeob.osu.edu/NextGenREU，，或联系国际和平组织(Marymegan Daly博士，电子邮件：daly.66@osu edu)或联合国际组织(Bryan Carstens博士，电子邮件：carstens.12@osu edu)。

This REU Site award to Ohio State University, located in Columbus, OH, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2017- 2019. This program will recruit rising sophomores and juniors to collaborate with research mentors from the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology to address questions about evolutionary relationships among plants, microbes, or animals using leading-edge molecular biology and informatics techniques for massively parallel DNA sequence data. In addition to developing skills in research project design, data collection, and analysis, this program will focus on professional development of the students, including meetings with biologists in industry, natural resource management, and the Columbus Zoo. Students will be recruited through websites, recruitment visits to undergraduate student groups, and social media. Matching between students and potential mentors will be done by a selection committee including the PIs and a subset of potential mentors who will consider the student's research interests and professional goals. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students from diverse backgrounds will be recruited from institutions within OSU's Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and from OSU regional campuses in rural Ohio. Because the target population is rising sophomores and juniors, the REU program includes extensive career exploration and professional development, with the expectation that these will increase significantly the impact for students as they navigate subsequent academic and professional opportunities. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences.A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure (Directorate for Biological Sciences) will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information about the program is available by visiting http://eeob.osu.edu/NextGenREU, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Marymegan Daly at daly.66@osu.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Bryan Carstens at carstens.12@osu.edu).