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Lee Hughes, Ph.D.Assistant Professor — Biological Sciences
UNT-HHMI ProgramsUndergraduate Research
The National Genomics Research Initiative (NGRI)
First National Experiment of the HHMI’s Science Education Alliance
What are the UNT-HHMI Programs?
UNT’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2010 Science Education Grant
• Undergraduate Researchers Program
• Classroom Research Laboratory Courses
• Transitions Summer Workshop
• Transitions Summer Research Experience
What are the UNT-HHMI Programs?
• Co-direct with Dr. Robert Benjamin
• Provides a classroom-based biological research experience forfirst-year students.
• Freshmen students conduct research to isolate and characterize a bacteriophage(bacterial virus)
NGRI
• An isolate is sent for genome sequencing over winter break.
• Students analyze and annotate the genome during the spring semester.
NGRI - Phage Research
Talking Points
Talking Points
Slide Title
• Student Presentations
• University Scholars Day1 Poster1 Award-Winning Paper
• NGRI Symposium
NGRI 2009-2010 Last Day of Class
• Number of Phage Isolated/Purified
• Number of Sequenced Phage(awaiting publication in Genbank)
NGRI 2009 Scientific Accomplishments
24
2
• Number of Phage Isolated/Purified
• Number of Sequenced Phage1 complete and in annotation, 2 at sequencing center
NGRI 2010 Scientific Accomplishments
22
1 2—
• Six student presenters at the Spring Meeting of the Texas Branch-American Society for Microbiology (1 poster award winner)
• Five posters and one talk scheduled for UNT University Scholars Day
• One student selected to present at the NGRI Symposium.
NGRI 2010 Student Presentations
(Sounds like a lot... we asked for $2,100,000!)
UNT-HHMI Science Education Grant
$1,300,00over four years
• Paid research experience for UNT juniors and seniors
• Placed with a faculty research mentor for up to one year
• Receive support for conference attendance
• Average of 10 students per year of the grant
Undergraduate Researchers Program (URP)
• Jennifer Archer with Dr. Jyoti Shah
• Adrian Cadar with Dr. Ed Dzialowski
• Coreen Manley with Dr. Lee Hughes
• Shelby Needham with Dr. Duane Huggett
• Raven Pena with Dr. Ed Dzialowski
• Melissa Torres with Dr. Michael Allen
Current URP Placements
Adrian Cadar (Borrowed from UNT Website Feature)
Teaching laboratory space equipped and designed to facilitate NGRI-like research courses for UNT undergraduates.
Classroom Research Laboratory (CRL)
16 juniors and seniors per semester will participate in faculty-driven research in a classroom laboratory setting
Classroom Research Laboratory (CRL)
First three topics to be developed
• Systems MicrobiologyMichael Allen
• Developmental PhysiologyEd Dzialowski
• Plant BiochemistryKent Chapman
Classroom Research Laboratory (CRL)
• Five week summer workshop for first year community college students
• Taught in the Classroom Research Laboratory
• Coordinated by Dr. Mark Burleson
Transitions Summer Workshop (TSW)
Focus on
• College Skills
• Science Reading and Writing
• Laboratory Skills
• Introduction to Research
One community college faculty member per year invited to co-teach the workshop
Transitions Summer Workshop (TSW)
Sixteen students who have completed one year of community college (selection underway)
Community College Partners:
• Brookhaven College
• Eastfield College
• El Centro College
• Richland College
Transitions Summer Workshop Participants
• Five week summer research experience for second-year community college students
• Placed with a UNT faculty mentor
• Ten students selected for Summer 2011
Transitions Summer Research Experience
• UNT-HHMI nominated Jordyn Talley
• She will be in the research lab of HHMI Professor Joseph Takahashi, UT Southwestern
Exceptional Research Opportunity Program