Application and Selection

• Application deadline: February 14, 2006

• Interviews: February 21, 2006

• Selection of RUMBA Participants: March 3, 2006

• Selected students will form part of RUMBA's 2006 cohort.

The summer program has the following components:

• Ten weeks of mentored research

• A short intensive molecular biology techniques course

• Weekly research meetings

• Culminating Symposium

Mentored Research

• Begins on June 4, 2006

• Ends on August 11, 2006

• Each faculty will mentor one participating student

• Students will pursue research projects under the guidance of a RUMBA faculty.

An intensive Molecular Biology Techniques Course

• For the first two weeks participating RUMBA students will be engaged in a two-hr techniques course (9:30am-11:30am).

• Students will learn to isolate genomic DNA, prepare and run agarose gels, perform subcloning and transformation, and perform PCR

• Begins on June 4, 2006

• Ends on June 16, 2006

Culminating Symposium

• Participating students will write a five page formal paper describing their research findings.

• Participating students will present their findings in a culminating symposium in the form of poster formal presentations to be given on the last day of the program (August 11, 2006)