What can NSURP do for you?
The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project hopes to connect as many undergraduate students as possible with microbiology, immunology, biomedical sciences-related summer research opportunities that happen online/remotely, with an accompanying seminar series and professional development webinars.
There will be mandatory classes Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10-11am PT/1-2pm ET. These will be professional development and scientific talks.
Resources
- If you haven’t already learned about ABRCMS – the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students – check it out now! This year’s event is happening in November.
- ABRCMS also offers an incredible number of resources for trainees
- Science published an article talking about the undergraduate summer research experience, with some excellent advice
- ASBMB published a blog post from a mentor on getting the best of your first summer research experience.
- UNC Chapel Hill’s TIBBS Program (Training Initiatives in Biomedical & Biological Sciences) has collated some wonderful professional development resources
- Cientifico Latino resources: https://www.cientificolatino.com/
- A list of all the NIH Post-Bac programs: https://www.nigms.nih.gov/training/PREP/Pages/PartInstPREP.aspx
- Women of Color+ Project: https://thewocproject.org/
- Graduate programs that you DO NOT need to take the GRE. Here is an incomplete listing of some of those programs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RT-lTk8VM9eFewmuBg-IpXLFJhyaq_pGsfT30vi9kns/edit#gid=0
- Black Microbiologists Association: https://blackinmicrobiology.org/
- The Bioinformatic Virtual Coordination Network’s tutorials in R, python, amplicons, metagenomics, networks science, pop gen and comparative genomics, etc: https://github.com/biovcnet/biovcnet.github.io/wiki
- Introductory videos to learn about how metagenomics works: https://merenlab.org/momics/ and https://www.protocols.io/view/processing-a-viral-metagenome-using-ivirus-buisnuee
- The Carpentries: Intro command line, R, python, git, and others. Guided online tutorials and live workshops: https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/
- Free book on data visualization for thinking about how to make figures that communicate information effectively – coded entirely in R: https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/
