UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #924

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  roundtable_info: {  }
  approximately_how_many_hours_a_week_would_the_research_assistant: 5-10
  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'No'
  confirmation_1: '1'
  contact_email_fsu_email: ''
  contact_email_fsu_email2: alemmon@fsu.edu
  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: chorusfrog@bio.fsu.edu
  faculty_advisor_confirmation: ''
  faculty_advisor_name: ''
  faculty_advisor_s_fsu_email: ''
  fsu_college: 'Arts and Sciences'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: 'Biological Science'
  headshot_optional_: '45436'
  if_the_project_location_is_off_campus_does_the_student_need_to_p: ''
  mentoring_philosophy: |-
    My approach toward mentoring is to welcome into my laboratory anyone with a passion for science, a willingness to work hard, and the ability to persevere. I have trained and mentored 76 undergraduates from all backgrounds during my 14 years as a faculty member in Biological Science at FSU. Most have gone onto professional programs—graduate, medical, or veterinary school—and to careers in academia, industry, and medicine.
    	When new undergraduate researchers join my lab, I meet with them individually to determine their backgrounds, experiences, aspirations, and career goals. Then we begin to lay out their pathways to attain these career goals. We discuss the key steps along their paths—how to make the right moves—to become a strong candidate for these future positions. We discuss the timing needed for each step and create multi-year plans with goals for each semester of their undergraduate careers.  When students join my group, I immediately engage them in our diverse ongoing research projects. These activities span multiple branches of biology and include fieldwork , behavioral experiments, genetics labwork, computational bioinformatics bootcamp, and neuroscience experiments. My goal is to expose our undergraduate researchers to multiple branches of biology through our lab’s current projects, so that they can gain direct experience with the possible directions they could pursue in their future scientific careers in biology.
  mentor_handbook_and_faqs: '1'
  name_of_other_faculty_collaborator_if_applicable_: 'Alan Lemmon'
  number_of_assistants_needed_faculty_postdoc_max_6_graduate_stude: '2'
  other_faculty_collaborator_s_preferred_pronouns: ''
  overall_research_project_description: 'The student will join a collaboration to identify speciation genes using a newly assembled frog genome. We have been studying the chorus frog system for ~20 years to understand how reproductive behaviors (male acoustic signals and female preferences for these signals) diverge and evolve as new species form. We are just gaining insight into the genes that underlie these changes. The student will have the opportunity to join ongoing fieldwork to collect and phenotype frogs (record male calls in a controlled environment), as well as conduct statistical analysis to find genetic markers associated with variation in the phenotype.'
  please_add_any_additional_information_here: ''
  please_provide_a_link_to_your_publications_a_video_clip_or_a_web: ''
  please_select_the_choice_that_most_accurately_describes_your_exp: In-person
  please_select_the_location_of_your_project_: 'On FSU Main Campus'
  position_availability_for_student_research: 'Flexible schedule'
  position_title: Faculty
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Emily Lemmon'
  project_keywords: 'speciation, genomics, behavioral evolution, neurobiology, statistical analysis'
  relevant_student_major_s_: '"Open to all majors"'
  research_mentor_preferred_pronoun2: ''
  research_mentor_pronouns: ''
  research_mentor_supervisor_if_different_from_above_: ''
  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: 'The student could participate in winter/early spring fieldwork on our frog study system, and/or record and analyze male acoustic signals, and/or perform a GWAS.'
  roundtable_times_and_zoom_links: 'Tuesday September 3rd from 7:00-7:30pm (zoom; https://fsu.zoom.us/j/96719535758)'
  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: |
    Required: interest and enthusiasm for scientific research; motivation to work hard and persevere through challenges; positive attitude; determination to learn; ability to work individually and as part of a team.
    Recommended but not required (just helpful): experience in statistics and/or fieldwork.
  title_of_the_project: 'Genome wide association study (GWAS) to identify the genes underlying behavioral divergence during frog speciation'
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  urop_performance_evaluation: '1'
  urop_poster_presentation: '1'
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_2: ''
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_wh: Dr.
  when_students_are_reaching_out_via_email_what_is_your_preferreda: Dr.
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_round2: 'Yes'
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_roundt: ''
  year: '2024'