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2010 Franklin Carrero-Martinez |
2008 Lilliam Casillas Professor of Biology University of Puerto Rico at Humacao |
2008 Vincente Sanchez Assistant Porfessor of Physics University of Puerto Rico at Cayey |
2007 Frank Ohene Professor of Chemistry Grambling State University |
2005 Carlos Rios |
The Biology Department offers a 3-month summer sabbatical for faculty from minority-serving institutions (those with at least 20% underrepresented minority student enrollment) with limited research facilities, to conduct research in their area of interest at MIT. This faculty mini-sabbatical program is funded by an HHMI educational grant. The program also funds one student from the faculty's home Institution to participate in the MIT biology summer program and work under the supervision of the faculty. Scroll down for program description and eligibility.
GUEST FACULTY
Past faculty participants include:
2011: Professor Mentewab Ayalew, from the department of Biology at Spelman College was hosted by Professor David Bartel, an HHMI investigator in the Biology department and a member of the Whitehead Institute. Her research area is in Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, and more specifically understanding mechanisms of antibiotic resistance associated with a plant ABC transporter. During her sabbatical in the Bartel lab Dr. Ayalewprepared RNA-seq libraries and optimized the isolation of polysomes from plant seedlings. At the same time, her student was receiving training in the analysis of RNA-seq and ribosome profiling data at the Whitehead Bioinformatics group.
Furthermore, Dr. Ayalew fully participated in a mini-course taught by Dr. Frank Salomon on critical reading of research articles. This course actually inspired her to develop a new course for advanced students in Biology at Spelman, entitled “Methods in Cell and Molecular Biogloy.” This new course will combine hands-on experimentation accompanied by critical readings, and it will integrate developing quantitative skills around RNA-seq data analysis.
2010: Professor Franklin Carrero-Martinez, from the department of Biology at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez was hosted by Professor Troy Littleton (Dept. of Biology, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory), and Professor Gustavo Lopez from the department of Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, was hosted by Professor Collin Stultz (Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
2008: Professor Lilliam Casillas from the department of Biology at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao was hosted jointly by Professor Dianne Newman (Dept. of Biology and HHMI investigator) and Assistant Professor Tanja Bosak (Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences), and Assistant Professor Vicente Sanchez from the Department of Physics at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, was hosted by Professor Alexander Van Oudenaarden (Dept of Physics and Dept. of Biology).
2007: Professor Frank Ohene from the department of Chemistry at Grambling State University was hosted by Professor of Biology Jonathan King.
2005: Professor Carlos Rios from the department of Biology at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez was hosted by Professor Leona Samson and the Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi).
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
The primary goal of this summer mini-sabbatical is to provide the visiting faculty the resources and environment where they can expand their current research or investigate a new area of their choice, which they could continue at their home institution, or from which they could derive a new undergraduate teaching lab or lecture course. (See application details, below.) The faculty will work in collaboration with an MIT faculty host on a research project that is of mutual interest to both.
Another goal of this program is to develop and promote interactions between faculty and scientists at MIT and at the visiting faculty's host institution, through further scientific collaborations, on-site visits, and seminars.
The program provides a summer salary and travel allowance for the faculty. Funding is also provided for one or two students from the faculty’s host institution to work closely with the visiting faculty on the research project at MIT. The students will be included in the Biology Undergraduate Summer Research Program and will need to meet the academic requirements of the program (see more details here).
At the end of the mini-sabbatical, the visiting faculty and his/her students will present a poster of their summer research and provide a 5-page summary of their research. In addition the faculty will give a seminar based on his/her summer research to members of the department.
Applicants must:
Interested applicants should contact Dr. Mandana Sassanfar by email (mandana [at] mit.edu) and provide the following:
Candidates will be invited to MIT to give a talk on their research proposal and to meet with potential host faculty between November and February.
