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We've moved. Visit our new site at: http://cihmid.cornell.edu/cihmid-opportunities/cihmid-undergraduate-research-experience/cihmid-microbial-friends-foes-reu/

The Microbial Friends & Foes Research Experience for Undergraduates program provides training in the concepts and experimental approaches central to understanding microbial interactions with eukaryotic hosts. Students work with faculty mentors in the Cornell Institute of Host-Microbe Interactions and Disease (CIHMID). A common theme among research programs in PPPMB is investigation of interspecific interactions, both mutualistic and antagonistic.

Students learn about broad diversity of microbe-eukaryote interactions through conducting independent research projects, participation in weekly research group meetings, seminars presented by CIHMID faculty, Microbial Friends & Foes Synthesis Panels, and the CIHMID Summer Symposium. Emphasis is placed on appreciation of scientific method and developing effective strategies for conducting research as well as on the synthesis of concepts important to interspecific interactions across diverse systems.

This educational experience is an excellent preparation for undergraduate students wishing to apply to graduate school and advance their careers in science. Individual student projects are designed so that they have the potential to be published as part of a larger project, in which case program participants are included as coauthors.

Application deadline is February 11, 2019.

Visit the new website at: http://cihmid.cornell.edu/reu-mff.html.

The Microbial Friends & Foes REU program is funded by the NSF grant DBI-1852141.