Sensing and Signaling: summer research at U. Tennessee

The BCMB Department at UTK will once again offer a special summer program for undergraduates interested in research. The aim of this Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) is to provide hands-on research opportunities for undergraduate students majoring in the sciences, with an introduction to cutting-edge research in the broad area of “Sensing and Signaling”. The team of REU investigators represents a multidisciplinary ensemble of Cell Biologists, Geneticists, Biochemists, and Biophysicists who are taking modern approaches to the analysis of how signals are perceived and transduced in myriad biological systems....

For additional information, visit the program website at http://www.bio.utk.edu/bcmb/summer/reu.html

Program Dates: June 4 - July 27
Application Deadline: rolling reviews until March 30, 2012

Biochemical markers, environmental health @ CDC

Application Deadline; January 20, 2012

This summer the Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education (ORISE) will be offering a fellowship opportunity in partnership with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. The CDC is looking for talented candidates to assist with projects associated with developing and applying new methods to characterize and quantify biochemical markers that are relevant in environmental exposures and chronic diseases. Qualified candidates will be undergraduate college students, who plan to major in biology or chemistry and have taken general biology and chemistry college-level courses.

The Fellowship posting is located at http://orise.orau.gov/science-education/internships-scholarships-fellowships/description.aspx?JobId=2409.

Sensing and Signaling: University of Tennessee

Description: The aim of this program is to provide research experiences for undergraduate students majoring in the sciences with an introduction  to cutting edge research in the broad area of “Sensing and Signaling”. The team of REU investigators represents a multidisciplinary ensemble of Cell Biologists, Geneticists, Biochemists, and Biophysicists who are taking modern approaches to the analysis of how signals are perceived and transduced in myriad biological systems.


Program Dates: June 7 - July 30, 2010


Application Deadline: EXTENDED TO APRIL 7, 2010


Website: http://web.bio.utk.edu/bcmb/reu/index.shtml

Summer research at Des Moines University: microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, biochemistry and physical therapy

Des Moines University has an Undergraduate Summer Research Program where students work with faculty researchers for an eight-week period on projects in microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, biochemistry and physical therapy.  The students receive a stipend of $10/hr.  


Application deadline: March 1.

Program website: http://www.dmu.edu/research/student_opportunities/summer_research/application/