RIMI: Establishment of a Molecular Biology Facility

分子生物学技术的最新进展不仅彻底改变了研究实验室正在解决的问题类型，而且也统一了以前不同的生物学研究领域。这项提议的目的是在新墨西哥大学生物系开发一个核酸分离和分析的核心设施。RIMI助学金将为生物学学生和教职员工提供一个在互动设施中工作的独特机会，该设施将提高系内的培训水平，加强少数民族和非少数民族学生在不同生物学领域的互动，并提高在本科生和研究生水平上招收、留住和培训少数族裔学生的能力。五名主要研究人员在真菌分子遗传学、寄主寄生虫相互作用的进化和植物生殖进化方面有积极的研究计划。除上述外，该研究所还将支持分子寄生虫学、分子细胞生物学、细菌学、动植物分子进化和生物系统学以及发育生物学等领域的研究。

Recent advances in molecular biological techniques have not only revolutionized the types of questions being addressed in research laboratories but have also served to unify previously divergent areas of biological research. The aim of this proposal is to develop a core facility for nucleic acid isolation and analysis in the Biology Department at the University of New Mexico. The RIMI grant will provide Biology students and faculty with a unique opportunity to work in an interactive facility that will increase the level of training in the department, increase the interaction among minority and nonminority students in different areas of Biology, and increase out ability to recruit, retain, and train minority students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The five primary investigators have active research programs in fungal molecular genetics, evolution of host parasite interactions, and plant reproductive evolution. Areas of research in the department that will be supported by the facility, in addition to the above, are molecular parasitology, molecular cell biology, bacteriology, molecular evolution and biosystematics of plants and animals, and developmental biology.