UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Grant: $47,540 - National Institutes of Health - Jun. 2, 2009
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Award Description: We received an administrative supplement with ARRA funding to support a summer outreach research and training program. The supplement provided for opportunities for high school students, undergraduate students, and a high school teacher to immerse themselves in an integrated internship centered on research in the laboratories of the participants of our Program Project, funded by the parental PO1 grant. The main purpose of this supplement was to increase the pace and achievement of research of the parental P01 grant. Other goals were to attract talented high school and undergraduate students into bio-medical research careers by providing an intensive, well-mentored summer research opportunity, and to provide additional science and laboratory training for the high school science teacher.
Project Description: All of our new appointees carried out original research projects, mentored by scientists in our 4 participating host laboratories. Following a request to us from the funding Institute, NICHD, each of the appointees has written a summary statement about their research and the benefits of the experiences to them. The two high school students and two of the undergraduate students worked in a laboratory focused on craniofacial development (the first component project of our host PO1), all of them characterizing mutations that disrupt the early jaw and palatal skeletons. Having a group interacting together like this, with similar focus and in the same lab, was clearly an enriching experience for all of them. Another two undergraduate worked in a focusing on synaptogenesis, in line with aims of our second component project. Both of these students point out that the experience reinforced their desires to pursue careers in biomedical research. Our high school teacher worked on mapping mutations, which is prerequisite for identifying the mutated genes molecularly. This appointee states that as a result of the summer experience she will invest effort in bringing more hands-on laboratory training to her own students.
Jobs Summary: The two high school students and two of the undergraduate students worked in a laboratory focused on craniofacial development (the first component project of our host PO1), all of them characterizing mutations that disrupt the early jaw and palatal skeletons. Having a group interacting together like this, with similar focus and in the same lab, was clearly an enriching experience for all of them. Another two undergraduate worked in a focusing on synaptogenesis, in line with aims of our second component project. Both of these students point out that the experience reinforced their desires to pursue careers in biomedical research. Our high school teacher worked on mapping mutations, which is prerequisite for identifying the mutated genes molecularly. This appointee states that as a result of the summer experience she will invest effort in bringing more hands-on laboratory training to her own students. (Total jobs reported: 4)
Project Status: More than 50% Completed
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