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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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