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Undergraduate Research
The IGERT program invites undergraduate applicants for eight IGERT
undergraduate fellowships each year. The fellowships will support a
part of the undergraduate summer stipend between junior and senior
classes. IGERT Undergraduate Fellows will research during a 12-week
summer internship in the IGERT research laboratories (IGERT UG Research
Program Directors: Drs. Troy Shinbrot and Rick Riman). IGERT fellows
will directly mentor admitted undergraduate interns, with oversight by
the associated IGERT faculty. The goals of this program is to introduce
undergraduates to inter-disciplinary research in biointerfacial science
and engineering, to provide valuable mentoring experiences for IGERT
graduate fellows and to recruit these experienced students into the
graduate program.
The recruited UGs will be assigned to research projects with the IGERT
graduate trainees. During their first week in the program, the interns
will be exposed to facilities at two relevant Centers of Research
Excellence, which will acquaint them with potential technical skills to
be acquired through the program. Throughout their research experience,
they will receive help with professional presentations from their IGERT
Trainees. The interns will participate in a survival skills workshop by
Dr. Shinbrot, exposing them to case studies of do’s and don’ts in
communication skills, manuscript writing, and ethics in research. By
the end of summer internship experience, the UGs will be expected to
present their research progress through an oral presentation. The UG
interns will be required to submit a 10-page progress report of the
project, which will be evaluated by the IGERT trainee (40% weight), the
advisor (30%), and the UG program directors (30%). For Rutgers UGs, the
summer project will be declared as a Research Course (491/2) such that
the students receive a course grade.
There are three major outcomes from this program: (a) Research
Scholarship, which can enhance the productivity of the IGERT trainees;
(b) Early exposure of UG interns to emerging advances in the field of
biointerfaces, thus creating a feeder mechanism for entrance into
graduate research in the community; and (c) IGERT trainee development
through mentoring experience.
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IRIF:Megan Anderson Fri., 12/11 in BME-122, 12-1 pm
Enhanced Survival of Progeny of Neural Stem Cells in Response to Trace Eyeblink Conditioning
IRIF:Andrew LHuillier Thurs., 11/19 in BME-122, 12-1pm
Mesenchymal Stem Cell Mediated Immunosuppression and IDO Metabolites
RESCHEDULED: Bioindustry Ethics Luncheon Part II w/ David Finegold (IGERT Fellows ONLY) 11/5/09
Part II of the Ethics Luncheon will be rescheduled to the Spring semester IRIF schedule.
IRIF:Dr. Debu Banerjee 10/22 in BME-122, 12-1 pm
Therapeutic applications of bone marrrow derived Mesenchmal stem cells
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Congratulations!
IGERT Fellows Aaron Carlson and Mohamed Sadik took 1st and 3rd place (respectively) in the Poster Presentations at the 3rd Annual NJ Stem Cell Symposium held Thursday, September 24, 2009. Aaron Carlson's poster was titled “3-D Electrospun Polymer Scaffolds Promote Human Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Controlled Organization". Mohamed presented “Electroporation-Mediated Molecular Delivery”. Jonathan Davilla took 2nd place with “Identification of Biologically Functional microRNAs in Human ESCs by Ago2 Immunoprecipitation and Sequencing”. The keynote address was delivered by Hakim Djaballah, PhD of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Congratulations to Professor Ki-Bum Lee, Stem Cell IGERT Faculty in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, who is the recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator award, 2009.
The NIH Director's New Innovator Award program is designed specifically to support unusually creative early stage investigators with highly innovative research ideas at an early stage of their career.
IGERT fellow wins award:
Congratulations to IGERT fellow Nicole Plourde who was recipient of the 2009 Schering-Plough Innovation Award. She was presented with an awards plaque and a check for $5000 at a ceremony on Thursday, April 16th.
Chris Ricupero featured on Epigenie interview
Follow link here for full interview.
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