The Neurospora Genetics and Genomics
Summer Research Institute
(NGGSRI)*Click HERE for the 2008 application*
Jeffery Buenaflor, a Biochemistry undergraduate, is assaying aerial hyphal extension in the 2007 NGGSRI
Welcome!
The NGGSRI is a summer program offering sophomore science majors their first laboratory research experience. They will participate in a Functional Genomics Program Project. The primary goal of the Program Project is to further annotate the genome of Neurospora crassa. Information on the project is available from the following URL: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~neurosporagenome/.
This research will provide molecular tools for continued research with this model organism. NGGSRI participants will be performing phenotypic analyses of gene deletion mutants. The data generated by the students is uploaded to our database housed at the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT:
http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/neurospora/Home.html
Shannon Aulakh a UCLA biology major & Refugio Parra from East Los Angeles College are scoring plate morphology in the 2007 NGGSRI
Tamara Restrepo from El Camino College taking edge photos of her KO mutants in the 2007 NGGSRI.
Eligibility
Applicants should have completed their freshmen year in a life science, chemistry or biochemistry major at UCLA (other majors are welcome to apply). We also select students from the Bridge program which encourages students at local community colleges majoring in the sciences to have a research experience at UCLA.
This program is funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health to increase the numbers of underrepresented students, namely Latino/a, Chicano/a, African American, Native American, Native Alaskan, or Native Pacific Islander (Micronesia, Polynesia) in research careers. Students interested in pursuing graduate degrees (Masters, Ph.D.) are strongly encouraged to apply.
Program Expectations
Participants are required to complete the entire 8 week program. The expectations of the program are substantial and require full-time student commitment. Each participant must attend all required activities (formal and informal). At the end of the program, all participants are required to give a presentation and complete a program evaluation.
Anqi Li a UCLA Neuroscience major is measuring aerial hyphal extension in the 2007 NGGSRI
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Financial Support
Participants will receive $300 per week for the duration of the program. If needed, a summer parking permit can be purchased from UCLA Parking Services and will be available in late April/early May on a first-come, first-served basis. Housing is not provided for participants in this program.
Program Dates
June 16 - August 8, 2008
While the program runs the same dates as Summer Session A, the program is not affiliated with UCLA Summer Sessions in any way.
Deadline
The deadline for receipt of all application materials and supporting documents for SUMMER 2008 is March 4, 2008. Some students may be invited to an interview. All students will be notified of their program status by April, 2008.
*Click HERE for the 2008 application*
If you have any questions regarding the NGGSRI please contact:
Gloria Turner at turner@chem.ucla.edu
This program offers valuable training for young scientists. They will learn sterile technique, manipulation of a model organism, microscopy, data management, beginning genetics and bioinformatics. Coupled with the laboratory experience will be a Computer skills class in Excel, statistical analysis and an introduction to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database. They will attend seminars given by prominent scientists from institutions throughout the world as well as a writing class focused on writing skills needed in a Scientific Profession. They will conduct an independent research project using the methodologies learned in the program and the model organism Neurospora crassa. The program culminates with Power Point Presentations done by all students. This past summer the NGGSRI focused on protein kinase deletion strains.
You may examine the data submitted by the NGGSRI by going to the Broad Institute URL:
http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/neurospora/Home.html
Follow the following instructions. Click on Alleles and you will be on the summary page for the phenotypes we have done. Choose your category of interest, with another click, this gives you the NCU#'s of everything in that category, as well as other information. All predicted gene loci have been given an NCU #. Click on KO and that takes you to the phenotypic data that we have provided for that KO allele.
For additional information regarding the NGGSRI please contact: Gloria Turner at turner@chem.ucla.edu.
