Equipment for a Molecular Biology Common-Use Facility

这项提案要求拨款为生物系的细胞和分子生物学研究配备一个通用仪器设施。该仪器将极大地提高8名新青年研究人员的研究能力，他们积极参与发育程序基因组重排，光合作用分子生物学，原核基因家族调节，交配类型相互转换遗传学，受精卵发育和单代遗传，细菌细胞蛋白质分泌，分子通过网格蛋白包裹的囊泡在植物细胞中运动。该仪器还将用于培养本科生、研究生和博士后，将有助于在德克萨斯农工大学建立一个卓越的细胞和分子生物学中心。//

This proposal requests funds to equip a common-use facility of instruments for research in cell and molecular biology in the Department of Biology. The instrumentation will greatly enhance the research capabilities of eight new young researchers who are actively involved in research on developmentally programmed genomic rearrangements, molecular biology of photosynthesis, regulation of prokaryotic gene families, genetics of mating type interconversion, zygote development, and uniparental inheritance, protein secretion from bacterial cells, and movement of molecules through plant cells via clathrin-coated vesicles. The instrumentation, which will also be used in training undergraduate, graduate, and posdoctoral students, will contribute to the establishment of a center of excellence in cell and molecular biology at Texas A&M. //