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OVERVIEW: In 1995, the Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology inaugurated its Undergraduate Research Training Program (URTP).
URTP trainees participate in computational biology research in a laboratory or group setting alongside other undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, under the guidance of a faculty mentor of their choosing. Mentors are chosen from participating Keck Center faculty members and are committed to helping undergraduate trainees have a significant learning experience in their individual labs.
During the summer session, trainees attend a specially-tailored program of presentations designed to introduce them to a broad spectrum of subdisciplines of computational and structural biology (such as 3D electron crystallography, molecular dynamics, or sequence analysis), workshops, and specially designed tours of research and clinical facilities in the Texas Medical Center, such as the advanced crystallography facilities at Rice, Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center, and UH's Texas Learning and Computation Center.
All URTP trainees work closely with their faculty mentor and will also meet as a group with members of the Center's URTP committee during their appointments for roundtable discussions that track their progress, help sort out problems, and touch informally on such significant issues as the importance of basic science research, career paths in science, and other educational issues.
Trainees are required to attend all seminars, to submit an interim and final progress report, and to offer an oral and poster presentation on their work at the culminating mini-symposium at the end of the summer session.
Junior or Senior Undergraduates with aspirations of graduate study in structural and/or computational biology are preferred applicants, but all applications will be considered.
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No applications are being accepted for Summer 2008.
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