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Ginnie Hench, PhDDirector of UNCs HHMI Future Scientists & Clinicians undergraduate
research fellowship program
Postdoc in Biology
27thFungal Genetics Conference@Asilomar
Pacific Grove, CA
March 13th, 2013
Facilitating an Interdisciplinary Learning
Community Amongst Undergraduates byEmphasizing Scientific Inquiry as the Unifying
Thread
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Talk Outline
Brief background about me and my interest inscience education
What is a learning community?
How does the concept of a learning
community impact the strategies I use as aprogram director?
How can programmatic challenges (ex.diverse disciplines and multiple skill levels in
a cohort) be transformed into newapproaches to teaching and mentoring?
Conclude by highlighting accomplishmentsfrom students who have completed the
program
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WE ALL HAVE TWO BRAIN HEMISPHERES
We all have the
~ Capacity to be inquisitive
~ Capacity to be creative
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Who and what comprises our
learning community?
Coordinating the HHMI Science Learning
Communities Program at UNC-Chapel Hill
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School of
Medicine
College of Arts and
Sciences
Carolina
Undergraduates
UNC
research
community
Labs
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Office for
Undergraduate
Research
CarolinaCovenant
ScholarsHHMI Future
Scientists and
Clinicians
Fellowship
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Summer school is NOT permitted
We do not arrange housing
Some of the nuts & bolts
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Alkene difunctionalization chemistry
Neuronal cell development
RNA aptamer
folding simulation
Wildtype
Y97F
Mutant
Gene expression during fruit fly development
Neuroscience of
Addictive Behaviors
S.
Toad mating behavior in
environmentally distressed
conditions
S. multiplicata
Optimization of a humanized mouse model
system
Protein crystal structure purification & analysis
Oli Neu
cell culture
Receptor activation and cell signaling
Chromatin structure and
transcriptional elongation
Interdisciplinary nature of the
program stems from the wide range
of biomedical labs where fellowswork
Nanomedicine
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The HHMI FSC learning community relies on the
strengths of the Co-mentors who are nominated by
PIs
= Co-Mentors (grad
students or postdocs)
= FSC FellowCovenant
Scholar
Community HHMI FSC
Learning
Community
Labs
Labs
Labs
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UNC Howard Hughes Medical Institute Future
Scientists and Clinicians (HHMI-FSC) Fellowship
Pizza Party and Information Session
February
WELCOME!
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Summer program orientation: Key
time for community building
Ice breakers that have worked
What do you like best about science?
What will you be working on? Arrange yourselves in order based on the size of
the model system that youll be working with.
Where are you from?
A conversation that is more fun with Google maps!
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Sharing where we are fromand where well be on
campus with Google maps!
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What distinguishes a sciencelearning community from
other kinds of communities?
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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Scientific inquiry is a balancing
act
Life scientists do experiments
We analyze
data
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Approximate Summer Schedule for
First Year Fellows
Weeks 1-3Getting to know one another,reading science news, read peer-reviewedscientific papers, giving scientific talks
Weeks 4 & 5
Short project presentationswith feedback
Weeks 6-8Workshops on hypothesisdevelopment, career opportunities in science,
science funding discussions and field trip Weeks 9-10Practice and preparation for
formal end of summer symposium talks
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HHMI-FSC Field Trips during the 1stand 2ndSummers
Year 1
Year 2
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Where will your curiosity lead you?
Programming for the2ndSummer?
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Tailor oral presentation
assignment to fit needs of 2nd
year fellows
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The Globalized Nature of
Scientific Practice
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Inquiry-based assignment used during first week
of second summer for year 1 and year 2 fellows
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Tatyana Zhuravleva
Tatyanas research project :
We are interested in understanding how E2f1escapes degradation and is protected fromPCNA-dependent proteolysis. We have focusedour experimental analysis on the S-phase of theearly Drosophilaembryo and during UV-inducedDNA damage repair.
Tatyanas independent project during second summer :
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Some highlights - what fellows have
accomplished One was a contributor to a Cell paper as a sophomore
and is now doing a year of study abroad in Spain
One presented her work at the GSA Model Organismsto Human Biology Cancer meeting in Washington, DClast summer
Two are taking a gap year, but both want to attendgrad school in the near future.
One student received offers from multiple grad schoolsand is currently deciding where to go next.
A few of them are interested in going straight into thebiotech industry.
Some are still committed to medical school or anotherclinical profession
F ilit ti L i C it
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Facilitating a Learning Community as
Garden Trellis Building
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Thank you!
Pat Pukkila
Colleagues in OUR
Participants in theHHMI-FSC program
Dr. Marilee Ramesh
Mimi Zolan and Steven
Denison