Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in Genomic Medicine (SURE-GM)

夏季基因组医学本科生研究经验（SURE-GM）旨在提供接触 在基因组医学的研究，从历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）在亚拉巴马上升大三学生。的 该项目是伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学和哈德逊阿尔法生物技术研究所的合作项目。 学生通过邮寄招募，并在可能的情况下，由研究人员亲自访问HBCU， 该州该计划被设计为两个夏天的经验。第一个夏天是在哈德逊阿尔法度过的， 教学和动手实验室的经验相结合，旨在使学生熟悉遗传学， 基因组学以及基本的实验室实践。这一点很重要，因为许多进入该计划的学生都有 很少或没有接触过遗传学，基因组学或在实验室工作。第二个夏天在UAB度过， 在一个研究实验室工作，由一名高级教员和实验室的同事指导。一些 还提供职业咨询研讨会和活动。学生们在课程结束时展示一张关于他们作品的海报。 在UAB的第二个夏天。在该计划的五年中，来自各种HBCU的41名学生参加了 节目该计划的资金将于2023年8月到期，预计将于2023年提交申请。 对今年夏天将发布的新的多样性行动计划RFA的回应。与该RFA相关的资金将不会 可及时为2024年夏季招收一批新的学生。为了保持连续性， 计划，补充资金将允许一组学生参加一个为期一年的计划， 2024年夏天因为这将排除承诺一个为期两年的计划，介绍年遗传学， 基因组学和实验室实践将从该计划中删除，并将招收少量学生 他们以前在实验室工作过。尽管有这种变化，重要的是要继续提供 该计划不间断，以促进建立关系的UAB和哈德逊阿尔法与许多HBCU在 状态因此，在2024年夏天，补充资金将支持一个为期一年的计划，学生将有 有机会选择在UAB的研究实验室或HudsonAlpha与研究人员一起工作， 一家位于哈德逊阿尔法校区的生物技术公司。与以往一样，将举办研讨会， 为学生提供职业咨询，并为学生提供在夏季结束时展示作品的机会。 值得注意的是，这是一项延期提议，要求为2023年9月1日的履约期间提供资金- 二零二四年八月三十一日。

The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Genomic Medicine (SURE-GM) is intended to provide exposure to research in genomic medicine to rising juniors from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in Alabama. The program is a collaboration of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, AL. Students are recruited through mailings and, where possible, in-person visits by study staff to HBCUs in the state. The program is designed as a two-summer experience. The first summer is spent at HudsonAlpha with a combination of didactic and hands-on laboratory experiences intended to familiarize students with genetics and genomics as well as basic laboratory practices. This is important, since many students who enter the program have had little or no previous exposure to genetics, genomics, or to work in a laboratory. The second summer is spent at UAB, working in a research laboratory under the mentorship of a senior faculty member and associates in their lab. A number of career counseling seminars and events are provided as well. Students present a poster on their work at the end of the second summer at UAB. During the five years of the program, 41 students from a variety of HBCUs have participated in the program. Funding for this program is set to expire in August 2023 and an application is expected to be submitted in response to the new Diversity Action Plan RFA to be issued this summer. Funding associated with this RFA would not be available in time to recruit a new group of students for the summer of 2024. In order to maintain continuity of the program, supplemental funding will allow matriculation of a group of students to attend a one-year program in the summer of 2024. Because this would preclude commitment to a two-year program, the introduction year to genetics, genomics, and laboratory practice will be omitted from the program and a smaller number of students will be recruited who have had some previous exposure to work in a laboratory. Despite this change, it is important to continue to offer the program uninterrupted, to foster established relationships of UAB and HudsonAlpha with many of the HBCUs in the state. Hence, for the summer of 2024 supplemental funds would support a one-year program where students will have the opportunity to choose to work either at UAB in a research laboratory or at HudsonAlpha with a faculty investigator or a biotechnology company hosted on the HudsonAlpha campus. As in the past, seminars will be provided intended to provide career counseling to students and an opportunity for students to present their work at the end of the summer. Of note, this is a proposal for an extension with funds requested for the period of performance of September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2024.