Acquisition of Automated DNA Sequencing Instrumentation for Molecular Evolutionary and Systematics Core Laboratory

这笔赠款支持购买设备，以升级费城自然科学学院分子系统和进化(MSE小组)的跨学科研究计划。这些收购将加强中科院在分子系统学和种群研究方面的现有研究工作，促进该集团六名分子系统学家的研究计划的发展，并在MSE小组的S努力下进行与系统学相关的培训，该培训本身侧重于从当地大学招收的学生。MSE的新成员增加了学院分类学专业知识的多样性；他们的实验室将强调MSE小组的程序性而不是分类学方向。集团所有成员都使用相同的基本研究方法，这些设备将最大限度地提高共享实验室的研究效率。来自学院和邻近大学的科学家和学生参加与学院正在进行的联合项目，将进一步为最大限度地利用设施做出贡献。收购的核心是自动DNA测序仪及其辅助支持工具：超低温冷冻机的远程警报系统、自动热循环仪和成像设备。为了提供一个存储和处理脱氧核糖核酸序列数据的中心站点，Funding还将为MSE小组建立一个计算机网络；该网络将整合到中科院S现有的服务器网络中，并为MSE成员之间提供无缝访问和互动服务。增强的MSE设施将显著改善目前来自地区大学的学生的教育机会，特别是来自德雷克塞尔大学的学生，该大学培养了大量的少数民族和城市学生。该学院目前正在与Drexel共同开发一项针对生物多样性研究的正式计划，并将很快实施NSF资助的REU Site奖，该奖项将对学生进行进一步培训。该学院为杰瑟普和麦克亨利提供研究生奖学金，目前和不久的将来将看到获奖者使用MSE设施。此外，MSE成员已经在指导系统学方面的研究生。因此，MSE小组正在并将积极参与一系列培训计划，使用为研究计划和领域教师招募的本科生和研究生，所有这些人都将获得以收藏为导向的分子系统学的实践研究。MSE小组将作为一个团队，对该设施的学生和其他用户进行现代分子系统学理论和实践方面的培训。

This grant supports the acquisition of equipment to upgrade a cross-disciplinary research program in Molecular Systematic and Evolution (the MSE group) at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. These acquisitions will enhance existing research efforts in molecular systematics and population studies at the Academy, facilitate development of the research programs of the group's six molecular systematists and under pin the MSE group 's efforts in systematics-related training, which is itself focused on a student pool drawn from local universities. The MSE's newer members increase the diversity of the taxonomic expertise at the Academy; their laboratories will emphasize the programmatic rather than taxonomic orientation of the MSE group. The same basic research methods are used by all members of the group, and the equipment will maximize research productivity of the shared laboratories. Scientists and students from the Academy and neighboring universities participating in on-going joint programs with the Academy will further contribute to this maximization of the use of the facilities. The centerpiece of the acquisitions in an automated DNA sequencer with its auxiliary support tools: remote alarm system for an ultra-cold freezer, automated thermocyclers and imaging equipment. In order to provide a central site for storage and manipulation of DNA sequence data, funding will also establish a computer network for the MSE group; this network will be integrated within the Academy' s existing network of servers and provide seamless access among MSE members and to Interact services. The enhanced MSE facilities will significantly improve current educational opportunities for students from area universities, and in particular those from Drexel University, which trains significant populations of minority and urban students. The Academy is currently developing a formal program with Drexel for biodiversity studies and will soon be implementing and NSF- funded REU Site award that will see further training of students. The Academy offers Jessup and McHenry Fellowships for graduate study that currently and in the near future will see recipients using the MSE facilities. Also MSE members are already supervising graduate students in systematics. The MSE group, then, is and will be actively involved in a diversity of training programs using undergraduate and graduate students recruited for research programs and area faculty, all of whom will be provided with hands-on research in collections- oriented molecular systematics. The MSE group will act as a team to train students and other users of the facility in the theory and practice of modern molecular systematics.