Center for Plant Cell Biology

Mission

Overview

NSF-CEPCEB REU PROGRAM IN PLANT AND PLANT-PATHOGEN CELL BIOLOGY (2010-15)

Past Student Projects

2012 CEPCEB REU Student MINHTU NGUYEN South Seattle Community College, WA

2013 PROGRAM DATES:  June 17 - August 16, 2013

The NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site is geared towards providing opportunities to students interested in the cellular and molecular biology of plants and their pathogens.  The program is especially interested in exposing students from two- and four-year colleges with limited research infrastructure to the excitement and career options that studies of plant and plant pathogen biology offers, but students from all colleges are welcome to apply.  The program is sponsored by the UC-Riverside Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB) which, in association with the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB) and other college departments, includes many faculty that study plants, plant pathogens (fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes), other microbes, and allied fields.

Typically about 12 students are accepted into the nine-week summer residential program.  Students live on campus and receive a stipend of $530 per week.  The program also covers transportation costs to Riverside.

The program begins with a one-week series of workshops, in which students are introduced to techniques and approaches used to study plant and plant pathogen cells, including genetics, molecular biology, genomic and bioinformatic analyses, and confocal microscopy.  During the first week students hear presentations by potential faculty mentors, and select their home labs for the remaining nine weeks of the summer.  During the remaining nine weeks of the program, students participate in workshops to enhance learning skills and their professional development, in addition to conducting laboratory research.

2012 CEPCEB REU Student ANDREW LYNE Kansas Wesleyan University, KS

Eligibility:

Undergraduate students enrolled in a two- or four-year college are eligible for the program.  In addition, students must be citizens or permanent residents of the USA.  Students are expected to have completed one year of Chemistry and Biology before the summer begins.

Application Deadline February 24, 2013

Please download the form  MS Word Application Form (tab between fields).  The form contains instructions for applying, including information about providing transcripts and the names of referees. Please fill in the application and mail/email it to:

Dr. Howard Judelson [howard.judelson@ucr.edu]
CEPCEB REU Program
Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

For More Information

Students requesting information about the program should contact Dr. Howard Judelson at (951) 827-4199, howard.judelson@ucr.edu or the Center for Plant Cell Biology at (951) 827-2152.

For information about related-graduate studies at UC Riverside, please visit: Opportunities for Graduate Training.