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Integrated Systems: Integrative Sciences
Developing systems perspectives in undergraduate biology at Duke
In summer 2006, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded $1.9 million to Duke University to develop a comprehensive program linking undergraduate biology education to emerging systems-level transformations in science research. Integrated Systems: Integrative Sciences will foster the development of a systems perspective within biology at Duke and will build new educational collaborations between Arts and Sciences, the Medical Center, and the School of Engineering.
Howard Hughes Summer Highlights:
Research Fellows Program
(June 9 - August 1, 2008)
Precollege Program in the Biological Sciences
(June 16 - August 1, 2008)
Felicia Walton, Research Fellow 2004
Research Fellows Blogs
- "Research Question"
- posted 2008-06-20
- Hello again! It's now been two weeks of research, and I have to say that I've learned so much. I didn't even know how to pipette before I got here...now that's a serious learning curve...At any rate, it's pretty cool to start seeing how this all begins to fit together. I've also begun keeping a lab notebook, which I'm unexpectedly enamored of - I don't know why, but I just really love the feeling of taping in results of data I've actually worked to collect. Like a nice little version of my eight weeks in the lab this summer, in book form.
Precollege Blogs
- "Getting started-Howard Hughes Style"
- posted 2008-06-17
- Hello world, my name is Shahmeer Lateef and I am a proud and excited Howard Hughes Precollege Program fellow.
Recent Student Publications
Shuen, J.A., Chen, M., Gloss, B., and Calakos, N. (2008). Drd1a-tdTomato BAC transgenic mice for simultaneous visualization of medium spiny neurons in the direct and indirect pathways of the basal ganglia. The Journal of Neuroscience 28(11): 2681-2685. (Research Fellow 2007)
Reed, Michael C., Thomas, Rachel L., Pavisic Jovana, James, S. Jill,
Ulrich, Cornelia M. and Nijhout, H. Frederik. (2008). A mathematical model of glutathione metabolism. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2008, 5:8 (VIP 2007)
David A. Orlando, Charles Y. Lin, Allister Bernard, Edwin S. Iversen, Alexander J. Hartemink and Steven B. Haase. 2007. A Probabilistic Model for Cell Cycle Distributions in Synchrony Experiments. Cell Cycle Vol 6, No. 4. p. 478 - 488 Feb. (2007) (Summer Scholar 2004)
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