BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING AT COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 INBRE网络为继续发展大西洋学院(COA)学生的生物医学和行为科学培训提供了持续的基础。该项目的早期毕业生已成功进入生物医学科学研究生院，在校学生和应届毕业生正在当地实验室担任研究助理，获得了宝贵的分子生物学经验和专业知识。2006年夏天，我们有学生在杰克逊实验室和沙漠山岛生物实验室(MDIBL)工作。 作为这项工作的一部分，我们继续尝试提供新的课程，让学生参与INBRE相关领域的学习。我们今年推出了两门与INBRE相关的新课程，一门是发育生物学方法的强化课程，由J.Coffman博士在2007年3月的春假期间在MDIBL教授；另一门是由COA数学教师David Feldman博士讲授的编程入门课程。几门课程，包括新的编程课程，已经用一套新的移动便携式计算机进行了增强，我们正在使用这套计算机来支持每学期两节课。我们继续与我们在MDIBL和杰克逊实验室的联系人合作，开发出在比较基因组学和其他相关领域培训学生的最佳方法。学生们现在遵循的模式是暑期全职做研究助理，学年继续做一些工作，毕业后工作一到两年，然后攻读INBRE相关领域的高级学位。我们与其他INBRE机构的研究人员的联系持续增加，多名COA教职员工开始寻求与这些机构的研究人员合作。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The INBRE network provides an ongoing basis for the continuing development of training of students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences at College of the Atlantic (COA). The early graduates of this program have successfully entered graduate school in the biomedical sciences, and current students and recent graduates are working in local laboratories as research assistants and gaining valuable experience and expertise in molecular biology. Over the summer of 2006 we had students working at The Jackson Laboratory and Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL). As part of this work, we have continued to try to offer new courses to engage students in the INBRE-related fields. We have initiated two new courses this year related to INBRE, an intensive course in Methods in Developmental Biology that is being taught over spring break in March 2007 at MDIBL by Dr. J. Coffman, and an introduction to programming course taught by COA math faculty Dr. David Feldman. Several courses, including the new programming course, have been enhanced with a new set of mobile portable computers that we are using to support two classes per term. We continue to work with our contacts at MDIBL and The Jackson Laboratory to develop the best ways to train students in comparative genomics and other related fields. Students are now following a pattern of working full-time as research assistants in the summer, continuing some work during the academic year, and working for 1-2 years post-graduation before going for advanced degrees in INBRE related fields. Our contact with researchers at other INBRE institutions has continued to increase, and multiple COA faculty are beginning to pursue collaborations with researchers at those institutions.