REU Site: Microbial community interactions and functions

该REU网站授予位于田纳西州诺克斯维尔的田纳西大学，将在2021年至2023年的夏季为10名学生提供为期10周的培训。预计总共有30名学生将接受该项目的培训，这些学生主要来自研究机会有限的学校或代表性不足的群体。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。该计划的评估将通过在线SALG URSSA工具完成。学生将在项目结束后被跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路，并被要求回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。该计划侧重于微生物学和微生物群落结构和微生物群落功能之间的相互作用。该网站位于微生物学系，有20多名教师将担任导师。这些学院还隶属于地球与行星科学、生物系统工程与土壤科学、土木与环境工程和地球与行星科学。对于学生来说，有一系列非常有趣和令人兴奋的项目，涵盖海洋和湖泊，洞穴和极地地区，工业和农业场所的微生物学环境。该计划的申请可以通过计划网站（https://microreu.utk.edu/）提交。学生将由教师委员会选出。有关该项目的更多信息，请访问https://microreu.utk.edu/，联系项目主任（Tennessee.microbiology.REU@gmail.com），或联系项目负责人（Steven Wilhelm教授，wilhelm@utk.edu）或联合项目负责人（Gary LeCleir博士，glecleir@utk.edu）。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

This REU Site award to The University of Tennessee, located in Knoxville, TN and will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2021- 2023. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities or from an under-represented group, 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. Assessment of the program will be done thru the online SALG URSSA tool. Students will be tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths, and be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system.The program focuses on microbiology and the interplay between the microbial community structure and microbial community function. Housed in the Department of Microbiology, the site has more than 20 faculty who will serve as mentors. These faculty also have affiliations with Earth & Planetary Sciences, Biosystems Engineering & Soil Sciences, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth & Planetary Science. There is a wide range of very interesting and exciting projects for the students that span microbiology in environments spanning oceans and lakes, caves and polar regions, industrial and agricultural sites. Applications for this program can be submitted through the program website (https://microreu.utk.edu/). Students will be selected by a committee of faculty. More information about the program is available by visiting https://microreu.utk.edu/, by contacting the program director (Tennessee.microbiology.REU@gmail.com) or by contacting the PI (Professor Steven Wilhelm, wilhelm@utk.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Gary LeCleir, glecleir@utk.edu).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.