Training the next generation
About the Program
- Intensive Research: Participants engage in collaborative research projects that tackle fundamental questions in movement science.
- Skills Development: The program helps trainees develop vital skills in scientific reasoning, quantitative literacy, experimental design, and model-based inference.
- Diverse Participation: The Summer Research Institute is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral trainees, underscoring IMSI's dedication to building a more equitable and inclusive scientific community.
- Supportive Mentorship: Trainees benefit from near-peer mentoring teams and collaborative supervision from experts at the Center for Integrative Movement Sciences (CIMS) at UCI or many other IMSI-affiliated institutions nationwide.
- Financial Assistance: IMSI provides financial support for project time, travel, and living expenses to all Summer Institute trainees to reduce financial barriers to participation.
Lead Trainees
Expert scientists will lead trainees through research projects, seminars, workshops and short-lab courses, to introduce a range of experimental and theoretical approaches to movement sciences.
Interdisciplinary Connections
The curriculum will be designed to build interdisciplinary connections and integrate across organizational scales from molecules to whole-body movement.
Develop Skills
Activities in the curriculum will help trainees develop skills in effective interdisciplinary communication, team science, quantitative analysis, coding skills in Python and Matlab, and model-based reasoning and analysis.
Symposium Activities
The Summer Research Institute culminates in a Summer Research Symposium, where trainees present posters or oral presentations on their summer research activities
Goals and Funding
The team-based science, near-peer mentorship and co-supervisory structure will help trainees to develop a sense of community and provide a training pipeline from undergraduate through faculty levels. The CIMS research and training incubator aims to transform the field of movement sciences by training scientists in effective interdisciplinary communication and team science, mathematical modeling, data analysis and open data sharing, to integrate understanding of movement from molecules to behavior.
Funding will be available to support trainees attending the institute, in the form of travel, subsistence and stipend. Details will be confirmed in late Spring on the timing and format, in consideration of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.