Choose Development! to broaden participation of underrepresented undergraduates in developmental biology research

翁格斯湾 项目摘要 发育生物学协会（SDB）正在使发育生物学社区多样化。 生物学家通过支持那些属于代表性不足的群体的本科生 基础/生物医学发育生物学及相关研究领域。深发展能够实现 这一目标，因为社会的独特的基础设施已经到位的选择 发展！(CD)计划（2013年至今），它提供了一个研究密集型本科 在一位成熟的发育生物学家的实验室里为本科生提供培训经验， 为每个学生提供多层次的指导计划，全社会的认可和文化交流活动 并在参加“选择”方案后的几年里继续提供支持。 发展！程序.选择发展！程序 包括：（1）在33名学士研究员中，63%的研究员（27名）已经毕业， 进入发育生物学或密切相关领域的研究生课程（包括一个 医学博士/博士），11%进入了医学院，11%的人已经准备了间隔年 向研究生院提交更具竞争力的申请， （2）到目前为止，共有10篇论文涉及CD的研究 研究员，有8份手稿，其中一名研究员是合著者， 感谢;（3）整个康体局的认识和欣赏有所提高， 采取积极主动的行动，使委员会、董事会多样化，增加代表性 来自非R1机构，博士后研究员和研究生在董事会和积极 在年度会议上寻找代表性不足的发言者。这些累积的结果 CD计划为这些研究员在整个SDB中提供了包容的氛围 并影响了他们在该领域的继续。拟议的教育和辅导活动 提高每个参与者在研究实验室的两个夏天的浸泡要求， 在美国任何地方的SDB成员。暑期实践研究经验， 学员将在研究多细胞生物体发育的实验室进行， 分子、细胞、组织、器官和整个生物体水平，涵盖从干细胞到 细胞和核重编程到进化发育和系统生物学， 计算分析，以确定参与形态发生的基因调控网络， 器官发生疾病的病因学-非常相关的国家研究所的所有主题， 儿童健康和人类发展。

Unguez, G PROJECT ABSTRACT The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) is diversifying the community of developmental biologists by supporting undergraduate students who are members of groups underrepresented in basic/biomedical developmental biology and related research fields. SDB is able to achieve this goal because of the Society’s unique infrastructure already in place by the Choose Development! (CD) Program (2013-present), which provides a research-intensive undergraduate training experience to undergraduate students at a lab of an established developmental biologist, a multi-level mentoring plan for each student, society-wide recognition and enculturation activities at national meetings and continued support in years after participation in the Choose Development! Program. Key outcomes of the introductory Choose Development! Program include: (1) Of a total of 33 undergraduate Fellows, 63% of Fellows that have graduated (27) have entered a graduate program in developmental biology or closely related field (including one MD/PhD), 11% have entered medical school, and 11% have taken gap years in preparation towards submitting a more competitive application to graduate schools while working in their previous mentors’ lab; (2) to date, a total of 10 publications have involved the research of CD Fellows, with 8 manuscripts having a Fellow as a co-author and 2 crediting Fellows in the acknowledgements; (3) increased awareness and appreciation across the entire SDB led to proactive actions aimed at diversifying committees, Board of Directors, increased representation from non-R1 institutions, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students on the Board and active searches of underrepresented speakers at annual meetings. These cumulative outcomes of the CD Program have provided these Fellows an atmosphere of inclusiveness within the entire SDB and has impacted their continuation in the field. Proposed educational and mentoring activities enhance the two-summer immersion requirement of each participant in the research laboratory of an established SDB member anywhere in the USA. Summer hands-on research experiences by trainees will take place in laboratories that study the development of multicellular organisms at the molecule, cell, tissue, organ and whole organism levels and cover topics ranging from stem cells and nuclear reprogramming to evolutionary developmental and systems biology, and from computational analysis to identify gene regulatory networks involved in morphogenesis and organogenesis to the etiology of disease - all topics of great relevance to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.