Guiding Indigenous Students in Next-generation Genomic Studies with the Summer In

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议建立一个为期六天的基因组学暑期短期课程，为美国土著学院和大学的学生与基因组学的背景和兴趣。该计划的短期目标是为美洲原住民提供基因组学暑期实习机会（SING），培训美洲原住民学生进行下一代基因组学和生物信息学分析，并建立美洲原住民社区的科学研究能力。SING的长期目标是培养下一代知识领袖，他们将定义不断扩大的基因组分析前沿，特别关注土著社区的基因组研究。这些目标将通过SING计划来实现，该计划将为来自不同知识背景的学习者和教师创造一个跨学科的学习环境，并提供一个课程，使美国原住民学习者能够在解决基因组研究和美国原住民社区主权的当前和未来挑战方面发挥领导作用。SING教师的专业知识和伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的资源提供了一个理想的环境，教育美洲原住民学生与土著社区一起解决基因组学的重要问题。我们独特的短期课程在分子生物学，生物信息学和ELSI战略方面具有重要的“动手”培训，将改变我们校园和科学界中代表性不足的少数民族的教育。该方案将进行经验评估，以作为其他机构的模式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to establish a six-day summer short course on genomics for Native American college and university students with a background and interest in genomics. The short term goals of the program, entitled the Summer Internship for Native Americans in Genomics (SING), are to train Native American students in next-generation genomic and bioinformatics analyses and to build capacity for scientific research of Native American communities. The long term goal of SING is to produce the next generation of intellectual leaders who will define the expanding frontiers of genomic analysis with a specific focus on genomic research with indigenous communities. These goals will be accomplished via the SING program by creating an interdisciplinary learning environment with learners and instructors from diverse intellectual backgrounds and a curriculum that empowers Native American learners to take leadership roles in addressing current and future challenges of genomic research and sovereignty of Native American communities. The expertise of the SING faculty and resources available at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provide an ideal environment to educate Native American students to tackle important problems of genomics with indigenous communities. Our unique short course with significant "hands-on" training in molecular biology, bioinformatics and ELSI strategies will transform education for underrepresented minorities on our campus and in the scientific community generally. This program will be empirically evaluated to serve as a model for other institutions.