REU Site: Research Experiences in Physiology and Neurobiology at UCONN

这项授予康涅狄格州斯托尔斯康涅狄格大学的REU Site奖将支持在2023年至2025年夏季期间每年夏季对10名学生进行为期10周的培训。主要来自非PHD学校的本科生和那些代表性不足的少数族裔、退伍军人和精神错乱的学生将被录取。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。对计划有效性的评估将通过使用AN LINE工具来确定。学生在参加该项目后将被跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。本科生参与者将通过从分子到系统层面的动手研究来检查生理系统。这些研究项目是更广泛的生理系统建模考试的一部分，由生理学和神经生物学、分子和细胞生物学以及药剂学系的实验室承担。研究领域包括：潜在的动机过程的神经回路；昆虫的化学感觉，血管形态发生和肿瘤发生。该计划的目标是改善教师的指导技能和经验，深化与非博士授予机构的机构关系，加强对研究经验有限的学生的招聘，并为学生提供良好的研究体验。参与者将学习如何提出研究问题，阅读和理解研究文献，作为研究团队的一部分工作，设计自己的研究问题和回答这些问题的方法，并接受教师、博士后研究员以及研究生和本科生的指导。参与者将学习负责任和道德的研究行为，研究生项目的选择和申请。学生们在暑期结束时的海报会议以及区域和国家会议上展示他们的工作成果。学生将由一个由PI、共同PI和教师导师组成的委员会挑选。特别的招聘重点是通常不选择研究职业的学生、代表性不足的少数族裔、残疾学生、退伍军人和第一代学生。参与者将被要求向NSF ETAP注册。欲了解更多有关该计划的信息，请访问https://pnbreu.uconn.edu，或联系PI(Dr.Crivello@joseph.crivello@uConn.edu)或共同PI(Dr.Menuz at karen.menuz@uConn.edu)。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This REU site award to the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks each summer during the summers of 2023 to 2025. Undergraduate students from primarily non-PH.D. schools and those who are underrepresented minorites, veterans, and diasbled students will be recruited. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. Assessment of the program effectiveness will be determined through the use of the an line tool. Students will be tracked after participation in the program to determine their career paths.Undergraduate participants will examine physiological systems through hands-on research from a molecular to systems level. The research projects are part of a broader examination of Modeling in Physiological Systems, undertaken by labs within departments of Physiology & Neurobiology, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Pharmaceutics. Areas of research include: neurocircuitry underlying motivational processes; chemosensation in insects, vascular morphogenesis, and tumorigenesis. Program goals are to improve the mentoring skills and experience of faculty, deepen institutional relationships with non-Ph.D. granting institutions, enhance recruitment of students with limited research experience, and provide students with an excellent research experience. Participants will learn how to pose research questions, read, and understand research literature, work as part of a research team, devise their own research questions and the means to answer them, and be mentored by faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students. Participants will learn about responsible and ethical conduct of research, graduate program selection and applying. Students present the results of their work at a poster-session at the end of the summer and regional and national meetings. Students will be selected by a committee composed of the PI, co-PI and faculty mentors. Special recruiting focus is on students not typically chosing research careers, under-represented minorities, disabled students, veterans, and first-generation students. Participants will be required to register with the NSF ETAP. More information is available about this program by visiting https://pnbreu.uconn.edu or by contacting the PI (Dr. Crivello @joseph.crivello@uconn.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Menuz at karen.menuz@uconn.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.