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Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Fellowships in the following departments:
Chemistry and Molecular Biology
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences
Biological Sciences
Information and Application Process
Applications must be received by March 1, 2010
Please send applications and direct inquiries to:
North Dakota State University |
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Chemistry & Molecular Biology |
Tel 701-231-6114 |
CPR, Dept 2735 |
Fax 701-231-1057 |
PO Box 6050 |
ndsu.cpr@ndsu.edu |
Fargo ND 58108-6050 |
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APPLICATION PACKETS include the 3-page application, available here; a copy of your complete college transcripts (official or unofficial); and two letters of recommendation sent directly to the address above (email or regular mail.)
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION (click here for complete description)
The Center for Protease Research is pleased to offer qualified undergraduate students an opportunity to carry out state-of-the-art hands-on scientific laboratory research during the summer. Students will receive a stipend of $4000 for the 10-week program, and on-campus housing will be provided. The summer of 2010 program will run from May 24 through July 30.
Students will be paired with a participating faculty mentor and be immersed in an independent research program. Students will participate fully in the daily life of their respective research laboratories. Seminars, informal research meetings, and trips to related industries are planned. The summer program will include a symposium where the students will present the results of their efforts in poster sessions. Please review the available summer projects here.
ELIGIBILITY
Requirements for students interested in participating in the CPR Summer Research program at NDSU:
- Completed at least their freshman year (by May 2010) and have, as a minimum, completed college-level general chemistry and biology.
- Required minimum GPA of 3.0 out of 4.0.
- Students must be approved to work in the USA.
- Students who will be graduating in spring 2010 are not eligible.
- A limited number of openings are available to NDSU students.
Students are expected to dedicate their time to the research program. Therefore, participants may not enroll for summer courses or accept other employment during the 10 weeks of the program.
Please see the complete Project Descriptions here. Please call 701-231-6114 if you need a paper copy of the description and/or application form.
Women, minorities, and students from other under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations to participate in NDSU-sponsored programs and events. To request an accommodation(s), please email CPR.
Frontiers in Biomedical Research
CPR is excited to announce an interdisciplinary research symposium to be held on the NDSU campus on May 21 and 22, 2010. The symposium will feature distinguished scientists from around the country who will speak on broad aspects of biomedical research.
All faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend and to present a poster on their research. Registration is required: please complete and submit this registration form. If you would like to submit a poster abstract for review, please see instructions on the registration form (one poster per attendee please, maximum size 4' x 4'.)
Registration closes on May 7, 2010. Please submit your registration form, abstract, and questions to: NDSU.Symposium@ndsu.edu.
There is no cost to you to register! The conference will include lunch on the 21st and 22nd, and will close with a banquet on the 22nd. The poster session will be held in the afternoon on May 21. Both days will start at 8:00 am with coffee and rolls in the Great Room in the NDSU Memorial Union (see maps.)
Note: this will be a busy weekend for Fargo. If you require a hotel room, please make your reservations early! These hotels are within walking distance of campus: Candlewood Suites, Days Inn, and Homewood Suites.
Tentative Symposium Schedule: 
May 21: 8:00 am Memorial Union Great Room
Presentations
4:00 pm poster session: Memorial Union Plains Room,
hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served
May 22: 8:00 am Memorial Union Great Room
Presentations
6:00 pm banquet, Memorial Union Plains Room
Esteemed speakers include:
Dr Zhongjie Sun, Univ of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Dr Marc Jenkins, University of Minnesota Medical School
Dr Sinisa Urban, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr Michael Kanost, Kansas State University
Dr Donald Tindall, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Dr Shahriar Mobashery, University of Notre Dame
Dr James Tidball, UCLA Duchenne MD Research Center
Dr Richard Niles, Marshall University School of Medicine
Dr Gunda Georg, University of Minnesota
Dr James McCarthy, University of Minnesota
Dr Dan Welch, University of Alabama
Dr Russell Linderman, Pfizer
Dr Jonathan Geiger, University of North Dakota
Please email your questions to NDSU.Symposium@ndsu.edu, or call 701-231-6114. We hope to see you there!
Individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations to participate in NDSU-sponsored programs and events.
To request an accommodation(s), please email rose.nichols@ndsu.edu prior to the event so arrangements can be made.
Career Opportunities
Apply online at jobs.ndsu.edu/
Postdoctoral fellow
A postdoctoral position is available immediately to use structural biology biochemical techniques to study proteins involved in the autophagy and innate immunity pathways. This is a two-year benefitted position with possibility of extension based on work performance. Requirements of this position are a doctoral degree or equivalent with research experience in molecular biology and protein purification. Preference will be given to candidates with experience with structure biology techniques.
Applications must be submitted online at jobs.ndsu.edu/: search for Opening Number 1000017. Qualified candidates may contact:
Sangita Sinha, Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Molecular Biology
E-mail: Sangita.sinha@ndsu.edu
Phone: 701-231-5766
Research Assistant
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
One-year benefitted position with possibility of extension; responsibilities to include various research related activities. Requres Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry/molecular biology or related field or equivalent education + research experience. For further info, qualifications and to apply, see jobs.ndsu.edu/, search for Opening Number 1000014. Screening begins Feb 16.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows: our group frequently has openings coming available in the areas of molecular and microbiology, immunology, cancer research, biochemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry. Please follow the instructions online to apply: Opening Number 0800068.
Seminars
"Transatlantic Collaboration: Opportunities and Challenges" was presented by our Ugandan guest, Dr Samuel Majalija. Everyone was invited to learn more about Makerere University on Friday, November 6, at 10:00 am in Van Es 101. Dr Majalija is with the Makerere department of veterinary parasitology and microbiology.
The Cell and Molecular Biology Seminar has scheduled Dr Larry Riley to present "What Controls Food Intake and Metabolism?". CPR was pleased to co-host this seminar at 3:30 pm on November 5, in Ladd 107. Dr Riley is an assistant professor from the biology department at Fresno State University.
CPR was pleased to help sponsor, with Veterinary & Microbiological Sciences, Dr Philip Matsumura from the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago. He presented a lecture, "FlhDC, a global transcriptional regulator: structure and functional studies" on October 23, at 10:00 am in Van Es 101. Dr Matsumura is also chair of the PCMB (prokaryotic cell and molecular biology) study section at the NIH, and he will also be presenting a grant review seminar: October 23, 3:00 - 4:30 pm, in Sudro 27. All are welcome to attend.
Angie Rizzino visits us from the
Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha. He will present a lecture titled "Transcription Factors that Orchestrate the Self-Renewal and Pluripotency of Embryonic Stem Cells Function as Molecular Rheostats" on September 15 at 3:45 in the Memorial Union Hidatsa Room. Everyone is welcome - enjoy refreshments 15 minutes prior to the seminar.
Katsunori Tanaka from Japan's
Department of Chemistry at Osaka University, will present a seminar on August 25. "A New Strategy in Synthetic Biology: From Enzyme Inhibition, Natural Products Synthesis to PET Imaging by 6-pi-Azaelectrocyclizations." Please join us for refreshments at 3:30 in Dunbar 152 prior to the seminar.
Joseph D Fontes, from the department of chemistry and molecular biology at the University of Kansas, School of Medicine, will present on May 7, 2009 at 12:30 pm in the Memorial Union Hidatsa room. Glenn Dorsam hosts this seminar titled: "The Zinc Finger X-linked Duplicated (ZXD) Family of Transcriptional Regulators." Please join us for refreshments prior to the seminar.
Donald J. Klocke, Director of Biomanufacturing at Aldevron, will speak about this Fargo-based biotech company. Come and find out more about this company that was created by NDSU alumnus! April 21 at 3:30 in the Memorial Union Prairie Rose room.
Dr Gunda Georg, Professor and Chair,
Department of Medicinal Chemistry;
Director, Institute for Therapeutics Discovery
and Development; University of Minnesota. Will present a seminar titled "The Pill for the Male" on April 7, 2009 at 3:30, in the Memorial Union's Arikara room. Dr Georg is also a member of the CPR External Advisory Board. Everyone is welcome! Enjoy refreshments fifteen minutes prior to the seminar.
Dr Manabu Abe, Hiroshima University in Japan, will be visiting NDSU on March 27. All are welcome to attend his seminar "Generation of Long-lived Singlet 1,3-biradicals and their Related Chemistry" at 3:45 in Dunbar 152. Refreshments will be served at 3:30.
Dr Doug Hurst, University of Alabama at Birmingham, will present a seminar on January 27, 2009 at 4:00 in the Memorial Union's Arikara room. Seminar title: "Multiple Mechanisms of BRMS1-mediated Metastasis Suppression." Please join us for refreshments prior to the seminar.
Dr Terry Bradley, University of Rhode Island, will present a seminar titled: "Transgenic Trout for Investigation of the Function of Myostatin in Fish", for the Biological Sciences department, hosted by Peggy Biga. Everyone welcome: December 5, 2008, at 3:00 pm, Skills and Technology Center Auditorium.
Dr Jodie Haring and Dr Rajesh Murthy, the Core Facility managers for our Center, will present on November 20, 2008, at 3:45 pm in Dunbar Hall room 152. Their presentation is titled: "Introducing the Center for Protease Research Core Facilities: Capabilities and Services." Please join us for refreshments prior to the seminar.
Undergraduate Research in the Molecular Sciences Meeting
This exciting tri-college event was held at NDSU this year on October 30 - 31. The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the American Chemical Society sponsor this annual event; CPR and others were pleased to help host. Please visit their web site for meeting information: www.mnstate.edu/provost/ASBMB.html.
Open Houses
Core Facility Open Houses! We celegrated the Core Facilities with an open house on October 29.
To find out how our Cores can assist with your research, please visit their websites for more information: Core Biology Facility web page and Core Synthesis Facility web page.
Graduate Visitation Day
The Center was pleased to help sponsor the Chemistry & Molecular Biology's graduate visitation day on Saturday, October 24, 2009. This annual event gives undergraduate students around the upper Midwest a chance to check out the department's programs. Check out www.ndsu.edu/chemistry for graduate program information.
Research Writing Workshops
We were pleased to host two research-writing seminars on campus! Dr David Morrison, from The Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops, presened a full-day workshop on September 30 on writing proposals for biomedical grant submissions. “Write Winning Grants” used NIH-related workbooks but much of the information will be applicable for any federal sponsor. All biomedical faculty, and one post-doc per lab, were invited to attend this workshop. Then on Oct 1, Dr Morrison presented a half-day workshop: “Writing for Biomedical Publication.” All biomedical faculty, one post-doc per lab,and one graduate student per lab were invited to attend this workshop.
Theses workshops were offered free of charge: they were sponsored by the Center for Protease Research and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Creative Activities & Technology Transfer. The feedback on these workshops was extraordinarily postitive and we are delighted to be able to bring these valuable seminars to campus.
Undergraduate Poster Presentations
All of the undergraduate students in the Center for Protease Research-related laboratories were invited to present their research projects. This event was held on July 27, 2009 in the Plains Room at the Memorial Union, and celebrated the culmination of the annual summer student fellowship program.
Seed Grant Request for Proposals
The Center was pleased to announce the second round of seed grant opportunities! This RFP is for NDSU faculty only: biomedically relevant submissions were accepted through November 30, 2008. |
Mukund
Sibi Named University Distinguished Professor