Mentoring
Objectives
The major objective of the Mentoring Core is to provide an array of services to promote the research and career development of junior faculty, including postdoctoral associates, and students, both undergraduate and graduate.
Faculty Mentoring and Services
KY INBRE-mediated Faculty Mentoring is supplemental to the collaborative processes already in place between faculty and their existing discipline-specific mentors. The KY INBRE-process is structured to facilitate the development of federally competitive biomedical research programs with the aid of a set of best practices. These best practices are designed to complement the financial support provided through our research funding activities (see Research Support). The over-riding goal is to develop independent investigators who can provide superior research experiences for undergraduate students. The main aim of this core is to provide support and training to help junior investigators establish high quality pilot data as required to compete successfully for NIH funding.
Services
Research Funding and Support
Provide research funding to develop high quality pilot data and publications (KY INBRE Research Funding Opportunities)
Provide release time from teaching to devote to research (25-50%)
Require Institutional Commitment
Provide access to state-of-the-art core facilities
Identify potential collaborators and state of the art resources (e.g., microarray facilities)
Site visits with KY INBRE funded PIs and institutional administrators
Facilitate collaborations with the state’s research intensive universities
Develop research grant support guidelines
Review all grant support applications
Provide extensive scientific and proposal development mentoring
NIH-R15 Proposal Development
Focus on the development of successful R15 as a path to research independence
Plan and present intensive NIH R15 proposal development workshops
Provide extensive formative critiques in NIH format
Review NIH R15 applications and critiques
Workshops and Training
Systems Biology and Omics Integration Journal Club and Seminar Series at the University of Kentucky
Small Genome Project at Western Kentucky University
KY INBRE Next Generation Sequencing and Data Analysis Workshop at the University of Kentucky
Student Mentoring and Services
KY INBRE offers opportunities for experience in biomedical research to interested undergraduate students through several mentored research programs.
Research Training
Part-time mentored research opportunities in their institutions during academic year (Academic Year Research Mentoring)
Graduate school and career guidance
Travel support depending upon availability for poster presentations/national conferences