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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 8 - July 21, 2009)
Precollege Program in the Biological Sciences
(June 15 - July 31, 2009)
Felicia Walton, Research Fellow 2004
Research Fellows Blogs
- "Don't be Afraid to Learn Something..."
- posted 2009-08-09
- Looking back on these 8 weeks, I think to myself "Wow, did I really do all that?"
Precollege Blogs
- "Almost a Scientist"
- posted 2009-06-20
- A curious Howard Hughes Researcher experiencing love of the laboratory .
Recent Student Publications
Styer, Katie L., Varsha Singh, Evan Macosko, Sarah E. Steele, Cornelia I. Bargmann, Alejandro Aballay. 2008. Caenorhabditis elegans Is Regulated by Neurons Expressing NPR-1/GPCR. Science 17 October 2008: 460-464. DOI: 10.1126/science.1163673 (Research Fellow 2007)
Georgiev S., A. Boyle, K. Jayasurya, X. Ding, S. Mukherjee, U. Ohler U. Evidence ranked motif identification. Genome Biology, in revision. (Ding-VIP undergraduate 2008; Georgiev-VIP graduate student)
Liu, I.M., S.H. Schilling, K.A. Knouse, L. Choy, R. Derynck, and X.-F. Wang. 2009. TGFb-stimulated Smad1/5 Phosphorylation Requires the ALK5 L45 Loop and Mediates the Pro-migratory TGFb Switch. The EMBO Journal. 28:88-98. (Research Fellow 2007)
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