** We Don't have this program for the upcoming summer 2013. Please contact Dr. Gadura for further details! Thanks for understanding **
An NIH-funded program to encourage underrepresented community college students who wish to further their education and pursue careers in biomedical sciences
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Salary: |
Underrepresented students will receive $2400 for participation |
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Room and Board: |
Students will have an option to live on or off campus. Students who live on campus will be responsible for their room and board costs. There are several dining facilities on campus |
An opportunity to spend 5 weeks at Stony Brook University in a biotechnology laboratory learning molecular biology techniques and performing a mentored research project
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Lab Techniques & Computer Skills that will be covered: |
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Isolation of DNA |
Inoculation of bacterial cultures |
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Mini preps from bacterial cultures |
Restriction enzyme digests |
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Ligation of DNA |
Bacterial transformation |
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Preparation of solutions |
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) |
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Restriction fragment length polymorphism |
Pubmed literature searches |
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Gel electrophoresis (agarose and polyacrylamide) |
Genome database searches |
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Protein expression & purification |
Bioinformatics tools |
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Western blotting |
PowerPoint presentations |
Other Activities Award Ceremony & Poster Session: An award ceremony is held with family and guests invited. Each research team will produce a 3' x 4' poster which will be displayed at the poster session. Each student will take home their own poster.
Lab Meetings & Presentations: Students attend weekly lab meetings to discuss newly learned lab techniques and to present results from their ongoing research.
Students can present their posters at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
