BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR NON-BIOLOGY MAJORS

这个应用程序是为了响应RFA为来自不同的，非生物背景的本科生提供生物医学科学暑期研究经验。随着对跨学科方法解决生物学问题的需求日益增加，我们必须修改未来研究人员的培训方式。特别是，这将是一个很大的资产，以吸引学生更大的定量技能。虽然跨学科领域的研究生课程，如由CAMBI在布法罗的纽约州立大学运行，往往是可用的，对许多学生来说，这发生在他们的职业轨道已经确定的时候太晚了。目前的计划旨在在本科期间进行干预，使目前正在更多物理科学轨道上的学生接触到生物医学科学提供的丰富机会。一个综合的10周的暑期课程建议，将提供10名学生每年在几个领域之一的研究经验，结合一系列的短期课程，在当前主题的生物医学科学，面向就业机会的研讨会系列，并实地考察当地的研究设施。该计划的导师代表的研究领域包括：组织生物工程;致病机制;神经系统疾病和发育的分子分析;细胞间和细胞内信号传导机制的细胞生物学;离子通道的生物物理学;以及;大分子的结构分析。该计划的学生将在第一周获得实验室技术的初步指导，并获得该计划内的研究机会。在课程结束时，学生将在所有CAMBI实验室的会议上展示他们的工作，作为秋季课程开始前计划的研究务虚会的一部分。通过一个专门的网页，将用于宣传学生的研究结果，并作为跟踪谁离开该计划，以评估其有效性的学生的一种手段广泛的努力。

This application is in response to an RFA for providing Summer Research Experiences in Biomedical Science for undergraduates who come from distinct, non-biological backgrounds. With the increasing need for interdisciplinary approaches to solving biological problems, it is imperative that we modify the way in which the researchers of tomorrow are trained. Particularly, it would be a great asset to attract students with greater quantitative skills. While graduate programs in interdisciplinary areas, such as that run at SUNY at Buffalo by CAMBI, are often available, for many students this occurs too late at a time in which their career track has been set. The current program seeks to intervene during the undergraduate years to expose students, who are currently in more physical science tracks, to the wealth of opportunities provided in the biomedical sciences. An integrated 10 week summer program is proposed that would provide 10 students each year with a research experience in one of several areas, combined with a series of short courses in current topics in the biomedical sciences, a seminar series geared towards career opportunities, and field trips to local research facilities. Research areas represented among the mentors of the program include: tissue bioengineering; mechanisms of pathogenic; molecular analysis of neurological disorders and development; cell biology of inter- and intra- cellular signaling mechanisms; biophysics of ion channels, and; structural analysis of macromolecules. Students in the program would be given an initial orientation to lab techniques, and to the research opportunities available within the program in their first week. At the close of the program, the students will present their work at a meeting of all of the CAMBI labs as part of a research retreat scheduled prior to the beginning of Fall classes. Extensive efforts through a dedicated web page will be used to publicize the results of the student research, and as a means of tracking students who leave the program to assess its effectiveness.