REU Sites
REU Sites: Biological Sciences
APPLICATIONS: Students must contact the individual site or program to apply. NSF does not have application materials and does not select student participants.
ELIGIBILITY: Individual sites may have additional eligibility requirements (e.g., number of undergraduate years completed). Undergraduate student participants supported with NSF funds must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions. High school graduates who have not yet enrolled, and students who have already received their bachelor's degrees, are not eligible.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Click on the Title of the Site in the "Site Information" column to go to the homepage (if available) for that Site. Sites are ordered alphabetically by host institution. All Sites provide stipends, housing and meals, in addition to travel to and from the Site. This listing will change as new REU Site awards are made. Sites are added or deleted as decisions are made on awards, and the list is updated periodically. Clicking on a highlighted site title should direct you to the web page for more information on that program.
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Site Information | Site Location | Contact Information | Additional Information |
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University of Alabama Tuscaloosa REU Site: Re-IMAGiNE Life, Exploring Function through Adaptation Department of Biological Sciences |
Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
Primary: Julie Olson (205) 348-1807 jolson@ua.edu Secondary: Michael McKain (205) 348-1826 mrmckain@ua.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences; functional adaptation; changing environments; genomic variation REU Site: Re-IMAGiNE Life, Exploring Function through AdaptationAbstract of Award |
Alabama State University REU Site: Research & Training in Multidisciplinary field of Regenerative Sciences for Undergraduates Biological Sciences |
Montgomery, Alabama |
Primary: Komal Vig (334) 604-8189 komalvig@alasu.edu Secondary: Shree Singh (334) 604-9160 ssingh@alasu.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Biology, Biosciences, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics REU Site: Research & Training in Multidisciplinary field of Regenerative Sciences for UndergraduatesAbstract of Award |
Flagstaff, Arizona |
Research Topics/Keywords: Biosciences, Environmental science, ecology, evolution, genetics REU Site: Environmental Science and Ecology on the Colorado PlateauAbstract of Award | ||
Tucson, Arizona |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences, microbiology, immunology, virtual, remote Comments: Coordinator: Holly Lopez NSURP@arizona.edu REU Site: The National Summer Undergraduate Research ProjectAbstract of Award | ||
University of Arkansas REU SITE: Assessment and sustainable management of ecosystem at the nexus of food, energy, and water systems Biological Sciences |
Fayetteville, Arkansas |
Primary: Kusum Naithani (479) 575-3653 kusum@uark.edu Secondary: Erica Westerman (479) 575-5348 ewesterm@uark.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences, ecology, ecosystem services, biogeochemistry, sustainability, resiliency, green chemistry, biological and agricultural engineering, agricultural economics REU SITE: Assessment and sustainable management of ecosystem at the nexus of food, energy, and water systemsAbstract of Award |
University of California Irvine REU SITE: Summer Institute in Neuroscience Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory |
Irvine, California |
Primary: Luis Colon-Perez (949) 824-3919 lcolonpe@uci.edu Secondary: Manuella Yassa (949) 824-5193 manuella.yassa@uci.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences, learning and memory, neuroscience, computational biology, neuroimaging, behavioral neuroscience, genetics, epigenetics REU SITE: Summer Institute in NeuroscienceAbstract of Award |
University of California, Los Angeles REU Site: Computational Biosciences Research Experience for Undergraduates Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biology |
Los Angeles, California |
Primary: Hilary Coller (310) 825-3483 hcoller@ucla.edu Secondary: Alexander Hoffmann (310) 794-9925 ahoffmann@ucla.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Biosciences, quantitative biology, computational biology, next generation sequencing, computer programming, statistics Comments: Coordinator: Beverlee Turner, baturner@g.ucla.edu REU Site: Computational Biosciences Research Experience for UndergraduatesAbstract of Award |
University of California, Davis REU Site: Ecological and Evolutionary Response to Rapid Environmental Change Evolution and Ecology |
Davis, California |
Primary: Richard Grosberg (530) 219-2468 rkgrosberg@ucdavis.edu Secondary: Anne Todgham (530) 752-1897 todgham@ucdavis.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: REU Site: Ecological and Evolutionary Response to Rapid Environmental Change Comments: Program coordinator: Carole Hom / clhom@ucdavis.edu REU Site: Ecological and Evolutionary Response to Rapid Environmental ChangeAbstract of Award |
University of California Berkeley REU Site: How Robustness and Resilience in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stressors Shape Biological Processes. Host department: Integrative Biology / 13 participating departments |
Berkeley, California |
Primary: Gian Garriga (510) 642-5859 garriga@berkeley.edu Secondary: Tyrone Hayes (510) 643-1054 tyrone@berkeley.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Biotic stress; abiotic stress; ecology; molecular biology; cell biology; microbiology; plant biology REU Site: How Robustness and Resilience in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stressors Shape Biological Processes.Abstract of Award |
University of California, Merced REU Site: Interdisciplinary Biological Engineering and Science Training (I-BEST) |
Merced, California |
Primary: Ajay Gopinathan (209) 228-4048 agopinathan@ucmerced.edu Secondary: Carrie Kouadio (209) 228-4230 ckouadio@ucmerced.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Biophysical sciences, biotechnology, molecular and cellular biology, developmental biology, biochemistry, biomaterials, bioengineering, biosciences Comments: Contact: Carrie Kouadio (ckouadio@ucmerced.edu ) REU Site: Interdisciplinary Biological Engineering and Science Training (I-BEST)Abstract of Award |
San Francisco, California |
Primary: Carol Gross (415) 476-4161 cgross@cgl.ucsf.edu Secondary: Elizabeth Silva (415) 502-2927 elizabeth.silva@ucsf.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: molecular biosciences, immunology, biochemistry, molecular biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Genomics Comments: Contact for student applications: Zachary Smith, zachary.smith@ucsf.edu REU Site: NSF REU in Molecular BiosciencesAbstract of Award | |
University of California Riverside REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Next Generation Cell Biology of Plants and Plant Pathogens Center for Plant Cell Biology |
Riverside, California |
Primary: Carolyn Rasmussen (951) 827-4415 carolyn.rasmussen@ucr.edu Secondary: Thomas Eulgem (951) 827-7740 thomas.eulgem@ucr.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: plant, plant pathogen, metabolomics, biosciences REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Next Generation Cell Biology of Plants and Plant PathogensAbstract of Award |
San Francisco State University REU Site: Research in Environmental Studies and Evolutionary Developmental Biology Biology |
San Francisco, California |
Research Topics/Keywords: biology, biosciences, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, environmental sciences Comments: For any question, email nsfreu@sfsu.edu REU Site: Research in Environmental Studies and Evolutionary Developmental BiologyAbstract of Award | |
The Scripps Research Institute REU Site: Scripps’ Structure and Function Summer Institute (SFSI) Office of Graduate Studies |
La Jolla, California |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences, chemistry, structural biology, biochemistry, biology REU Site: Scripps’ Structure and Function Summer Institute (SFSI)Abstract of Award | |
California State University San Marcos REU Site: The Plasticity of Cells, Organisms, and Communities Biological Sciences |
San Marcos, California |
Primary: Betsy Read (760) 750-4129 bread@csusm.edu Secondary: Carlos Luna Lopez (760) 750-8245 clunalopez@csusm.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences, molecular biology, genomics, cell biology, physiology, cellular plasticity, organismal plasticity, community plasticity, adaptation REU Site: The Plasticity of Cells, Organisms, and CommunitiesAbstract of Award |
California Academy of Sciences REU Site: The Summer Systematics Institute: training the next generation of scientists for the field, the lab, and sharing their science with the world Institute for Biodiversity Sciences and Sustainability |
San Francisco, California |
Primary: Lauren Esposito (415) 379-5328 lesposito@calacademy.org Secondary: Rebecca Johnson (415) 379-5252 rjohnson@calacademy.org |
Research Topics/Keywords: biology, biosciences, systematics, museum, natural history, phylogenetics, entomology, anthropolgy, arachnology, ichthyology, herpetology, botany, ornithology, virology Comments: Coordinator: Christina Cordova, ssi-bi@calacademy.org REU Site: The Summer Systematics Institute: training the next generation of scientists for the field, the lab, and sharing their science with the worldAbstract of Award |
Crested Butte, Colorado |
Primary: Ian Billick (970) 349-7231 ibillick@rmbl.org Secondary: Rosemary Smith (970) 349-7231 rsmith@rmbl.org |
Research Topics/Keywords: Biosciences, ecology, evolutionary biology, field research, rocky mountains, landscape ecology REU Site: Live in the Mountains: Field Research in Gothic, COAbstract of Award | |
Colorado State University REU Site: Program in Molecular Biosciences Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Fort Collins, Colorado |
Primary: Aaron Sholders (970) 491-7916 Aaron.Sholders@ColoState.EDU Secondary: Paul J Laybourn (970) 491-5100 Paul.Laybourn@ColoState.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences, cell biology, molecular biology, microbiology, biophysics, structural biology, neurobiology, nutrition, physiology, developmental biology, genetics, marine biology, bioinformatics Comments: Program Coordinator: Christine Kirk, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Email: Christine.Kirk@colostate.edu REU Site: Program in Molecular BiosciencesAbstract of Award |
University of Colorado at Denver REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Program in RNA and Genome Biology |
Aurora, Colorado |
Primary: Aaron Johnson (303) 724-3224 aaron.m.johnson@cuanschutz.edu Secondary: Neel Mukherjee (303) 724-1623 NEELANJAN.MUKHERJEE@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU |
Research Topics/Keywords: RNA Biology, Genomics; Genetics; Molecular Biology, Biochemistry; Biosciences REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Program in RNA and Genome BiologyAbstract of Award |
Metropolitan State University of Denver REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Program in RNA and Genome Biology |
Denver, Colorado |
Research Topics/Keywords: RNA Biology, Genomics; Genetics; Molecular Biology, Biochemistry; Biosciences REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Program in RNA and Genome BiologyAbstract of Award | |
New Haven, Connecticut |
Primary: Brandon Ogbunu (203) 434-1489 brandon.ogbunu@yale.edu Secondary: Jacqueline Tanaka (203) 432-5664 jacqueline.tanaka@yale.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Computational analysis, Biosciences, Infectious Diseases, Public health, Ecology, Evolution REU Site: Computational Insights into Infectious Disease Evolution, Ecology and EpidemiologyAbstract of Award | |
Sea Research Foundation REU Site: Mystic Aquarium: Collaborative Research: Plankton to Whales: Consequences of Global Change within Marine Ecosystems Department of Marine Sciences |
Mystic, Connecticut |
Primary: Tracy Romano (860) 514-3688 tromano@mysticaquarium.org Secondary: Michael Finiguerra (860) 389-2900 michael.finiguerra@gmail.com |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences, oceansciences, marine science, marine biology, marine ecosystems, food web, marine ecology, physiology, immunology, whales, marine mammals, fish, aquarium, environmental stressors Comments: Contact: Danielle Lavoie dlavoie@mysticaquarium.org; 860-818-2507 REU Site: Mystic Aquarium: Collaborative Research: Plankton to Whales: Consequences of Global Change within Marine EcosystemsAbstract of Award Cofunded: Ocean Sciences |
University of Connecticut REU Site: Mystic Aquarium: Collaborative Research: Plankton to Whales: Consequences of Global Change within Marine Ecosystems Department of Marine Sciences |
Groton, Connecticut |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences, oceansciences, marine science, marine biology, marine ecosystems, food web, marine ecology, physiology, immunology, whales, marine mammals, fish, aquarium, environmental stressors Comments: Danielle Lavoie/dlavoie@mysticaquarium.org; 860-818-2507 REU Site: Mystic Aquarium: Collaborative Research: Plankton to Whales: Consequences of Global Change within Marine EcosystemsAbstract of Award | |
University of Connecticut REU Site: Research Experiences in Physiology and Neurobiology at UCONN Physiology and Neurobiology |
Storrs, Connecticut |
Primary: Xinnian Chen (860) 486-6169 xinnian.chen@uconn.edu Secondary: Anastasios Tzingounis (860) 486-7916 anastasios.tzingounis@uconn.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: biology, biosciences, physiology, developmental neurobiology, respiratory physiology, synaptic plasticity, neural circuits, molecular and cell biology, bioinformatics, computational biology REU Site: Research Experiences in Physiology and Neurobiology at UCONNAbstract of Award |
Dover, Delaware |
Primary: Hakeem Lawal (302) 857-6507 hlawal@desu.edu Secondary: Erin Perchiniak (856) 745-5498 eperchiniak@desu.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Biosciences, neurobiology, molecular biology, bioengineering, microbiology, climate biology, computational biology Comments: Coordinator: Laurieann Phalen REU Site: Inclusive and collaborative approach to cellular and molecular biology for undergraduate researchers at Delaware State UniversityAbstract of Award | |
Orlando, Florida |
Primary: Linda Walters (407) 823-2148 linda.walters@ucf.edu Secondary: Kate Mansfield (407) 823-4432 kate.mansfield@ucf.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Biosciences, biodiversity, conservation, restoration, communication, ecology, evolution, vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, endangered species, invasive species, animal behavior, animal tracking Comments: UCF REU Contact: Dr. Linda Walters, linda.walters@ucf.edu REU Site: Conservation, Restoration and CommunicationAbstract of Award | |
University of Florida REU Site: SURFing the Interface between Chemistry and Biology The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology |
Jupiter, Florida |
Research Topics/Keywords: Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Immunology Comments: Rosie Albarran-Zeckler, albarranzecklerr@ufl.edu REU Site: SURFing the Interface between Chemistry and BiologyAbstract of Award | |
Florida A&M University REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experience in Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Data Science Department of Biological Sciences |
Tallahassee, Florida |
Primary: Ramesh Katam (850) 561-2750 ramesh.katam@famu.edu Secondary: Virginia Gottschalk (850) 561-2750 virginia.gottschalk@famu.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: Biosciences: Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics Comments: Ramesh Katam at ramesh.katam@famu.edu REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experience in Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Data ScienceAbstract of Award |
Florida International University REU Site: Understanding Coastal Ecosystems – From the Everglades to the Coral Reefs |
Miami, Florida |
Primary: Todd Crowl (305) 348-1666 tcrowl@fiu.edu Secondary: Rita Teutonico (305) 348-2719 rteutoni@fiu.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: biosciences, ecosystem, ecology, water quality, environment, Everglades, coral reef, aquatic chemistry, coastal, biogoechemistry, CREST, LTER Comments: CoastalREU@fiu.edu REU Site: Understanding Coastal Ecosystems – From the Everglades to the Coral ReefsAbstract of Award |
Athens, Georgia |
Primary: Art Edison (706) 542-8156 aedison@uga.edu Secondary: Helen Walter (404) 880-6830 hwalter@cau.edu |
Research Topics/Keywords: genomics, metabolomics, computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology, proteomics Comments: contact arnold@uga.edu for questions REU site: Genomics and Computational BiologyAbstract of Award |