Notre Dame
NSF REU 2003
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Why Participate??? (from a student's perspective)
....Doing exciting research & getting to know your fellow fellows :)
The
Notre Dame Biology REU program is an AWESOME experience for anyone who is
interested in not only learning about research in general but also to attain
numerous techniques as well as a different way of thinking. You work closely
with an immediate mentor who is normally either a post doctoral student or a
graduate student as well as being advised by the principal investigator. The
fellows often become good friends with each other and even plan weekend trips
together (i.e. Cedar point, Great America,
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The Fellows
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Students
from all over the country coming together to have
scientific adventures at Notre Dame/South Bend Indiana.
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Possible Projects
- Malaria: pupae picking is always fun; developmental studies; genomics is a very HOT topic right now; gene mapping, etc.
- Overall the ultimate goal of every student is to find a way to eradicate the transmission of the malarial parasite to human hosts :)
- Cancer:
- Retinal Degeneration:
- Evolution: Looking at some strange Drosophila ssp; characterizing pigmentation; cloning, bioinformatics, and of course PCR.
- The ultimate goal is to determine how and why natural selection occurs and to determine simple genotype to phenotype relationships.
- Mycobacteria:
- Cell development & its mechanisms:
Notre Dame Faculty Research Projects
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Hot Links
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Contact Information
Street address
Dr. Michelle Whaley
University of Notre Dame
Department of Biological Sciences
133 Galvin Life Sciences
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5602
Electronic mail address
Michelle.A.Whaley.3@nd.edu
Web address
http://www.nd.edu
Office phone
574-634-9343
FAX number
574-631-7413