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夏天的研究
There are plenty of opportunities for biology and other science students to conduct research over the summer.
夏季科学研究
每年夏天, there are opportunities for 十大菠菜台子 students to work with science faculty on their research or through the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship Program. These opportunities are either 4 weeks or 8 weeks in length. Students receive college credit and a stipend for their work. 所有参与的学生都住在校园里.
The Summer 2024 research opportunities are listed below. All of these projects are part of the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship Program. Please note the length of the projects: 4 weeks (June 3 - June 28, 2024)和8周(6月3日- 7月26日), 2024). Students will work with a faculty mentor to develop a research question and participate in the weekly 2-hr professional development seminar (0.5-1专项单位). Fellows will receive a stipend of $2750 (4 weeks) or $5500 (8 weeks), 以帮助抵消暑期学费的成本, 还有食宿. To review the available projects, click on the topics below. For more details, contact the principal investigator for each project directly. For general questions about the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship program, contact Dr. 唐雅嘉(caryt@thamanaphotos.com).
Students interested in working in other STEM disciplines should check the respective discipline website or contact individual faculty members.
项目
This project is part of the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship Program.
Pigments have been used for millennia for artistic expression, however there are pigments that were widely used that have adverse health affects. This project will focus on developing classroom lab procedures for synthesizing and characterizing pigments. Student researchers will synthesize toxic pigments as will as the compounds that replaced them. Students will gain an understanding for why these compounds are toxic to humans and develop lab content around these concepts.
- 重点领域:化学
- 项目持续时间: 8周(06/03/23 - 07/26/23)
- 必备的课程: CHEM 220或CHEM 230
- 喜欢的课程(没有)
- 学生职位数目: 2
首席研究员
卡宾利文斯顿
This project is part of the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship Program.
Forensic investigators have begun to use technologies such as Computed Tomography (CT) studies to assess Bone Mineral Density (BMD) differences amongst age, 性, 以及他们所照顾的死者的病理. This research has the potential to help greatly with the identification of unknown decedents. 然而, the integration of these studies with archaeological and microbiological research regarding the changes of a body during the Post-Mortem Interval (PMI) and across levels of decomposition has been lacking. More knowledge regarding bone density changes after death is necessary in order for the use of BMD data to be applied appropriately to unknown decedents. This project will use the CT studies from a consenting donor database to measure the BMD of decedents at different levels of decomposition.
- 重点领域:生物学
- 项目持续时间: 8周(06/03/23 - 07/26/23)
- 必备的课程:采取以下之一:BIOL 256解剖学, ANTH 230人骨学, or HEAL 301 Anatomy of Kinesiology and Somatics for Movers
- 喜欢的课程修读以上一门以上的课程
- 学生职位数目: 1
首席研究员
海伦·沃纳
This project is part of the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship Program.
我的研究方向是抗生素的发现, with the goal of discovering new molecules that could be used as antibiotics (medicines to treat bacterial infections). I collaborate with the international Tiny Earth network of scientists and students working to mitigate the antibiotic crisis. This work draws upon skills and techniques from many disciplines: organic chemistry, 药物化学, 微生物学, 生物化学, 和遗传学. The Tiny Earth Chemistry Hub at UW-Madison has identified many “high priority” bacterial isolates with antibiotic activity, and this collaborative project would include conducting bioassays to screen these isolates for antibiotic activity and performing genomic DNA extractions for future sequencing analysis.
- 项目持续时间: 4周(06/03/23- 06/28/23)
- 必备的课程: CHEM 117 (Introductory Chemistry) and BIOL 208 (Microbiology)
- 喜欢的课程:化学/生物260(营养与代谢)
- 学生职位数目: 1
首席研究员
克里斯汀Labby
This project is part of the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship Program.
Disease has been implicated as a contributing factor in the ongoing decline in global amphibian population sizes. 除了疾病, another factor threatening global amphibian populations is environmental contamination. A leading hypothesis to explain these declines is that environmental pollutants weaken amphibian immune function such that subsequent exposure to pathogens results in increased disease susceptibility and death. 因此, measures of immune function provide a way to analyze how contaminant exposure may be linked to disease susceptibility. Previous research has found that polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB-126) exposure during the tadpole life stage (but not the juvenile stage alone) decreased innate and adaptive immunity in juvenile frogs following metamorphosis. 然而, the mechanisms underlying this life-stage specific immunotoxicity are not well understood. We will expose native tadpoles to PCB-126 and employ molecular techniques like polymerase chain reaction (PCR), 酶联免疫吸附试验, and/or RNA sequencing to identify genes and proteins that might be dysregulated in response to PCB-126. The findings of this research will help elucidate the mechanisms involved in PCB-126 toxicity in tadpoles.
- 重点领域:生物学
- 项目持续时间: 4周(06/03/23- 06/28/23)
- 必备的课程: 100级BIOL, CHEM 117和BIOL 247(生物计量学)
- 喜欢的课程(没有)
- 学生职位数目: 1
首席研究员
Tawnya卡里