FSML: Molecular Biology Core Facility for Grice Marine Laboratory

查尔斯顿学院的克雷格·普兰特博士和路易斯·伯内特博士获得了一笔赠款，用于在格雷斯海洋实验室建立分子/基因组研究的核心设施。格赖斯海洋实验室(GML)是支持查尔斯顿学院和南加州查尔斯顿大学海洋生物学本科生和研究生课程的主要设施。随着查尔斯顿学院的学生人数迅速增加到9500多人，自1993年以来，生物系的教职员工人数从20人增加到32人。与过去相比，最近的招聘在更大程度上强调了研究成功，这反映了该系为本科生提供更多研究机会的目标。因此，在过去十年中，研究的范围和规模有所扩大，需要更高水平的方法复杂性。这些转变需要使用更现代的方案，包括现代分子方法。这一现代化将使GML能够更好地履行其使命，支持本科生和研究生教育；获取和传播有关海洋生物、过程和环境问题的知识；并鼓励学术和其他海洋研究机构之间进行跨学科的海洋研究。购买自动DNA测序仪、图像分析系统、热循环仪、聚合酶链式反应工作站和额外的多功能设备，将为查尔斯顿学院和其他地方的科学家和学生提供新的令人兴奋的能力。GML的九名常驻教员和他们的学生的项目包括研究海洋沉积物中的微生物多样性、鱼和虾的免疫反应的分子机制、海龟的亲子关系、水产养殖中的抗药性致病菌，以及海洋无脊椎动物和鱼类的系统发育研究。这一共用设施将使GML的教职员工和学生研究、本科生和研究生以及更广泛的访问科学家和暑期实习生群体受益。此外，这些资源将提供给我们在约翰逊堡研究综合体的更大社区的合作伙伴，其中包括南卡罗来纳州海洋资源研究所、南卡罗来纳州医科大学海洋生物医学和环境研究计划以及国家海洋局和国家标准与技术研究所查尔斯顿实验室的科学家。

A grant has been awarded to Drs. Craig Plante and Louis Burnett at the College of Charleston to establish a core facility for molecular/genomic research at the Grice Marine Laboratory. The Grice Marine Laboratory (GML) serves as the primary facility in support of the undergraduate and the graduate programs in marine biology of the College of Charleston and the University of Charleston, SC. As the College of Charleston student population has rapidly grown to over 9500, the size of the Biology Department has increased from 20 to 32 faculty since 1993. Reflecting the department's goal to offer more opportunities for research to its undergraduates, research success has been emphasized in these recent hirings to a greater extent than in the past. Consequently, the scope and scale of research has expanded over the past decade, requiring a higher level of methodological sophistication. These shifts have necessitated the use of more contemporary protocols, including modern molecular approaches. This modernization will allow the GML to better fulfill its mission to support undergraduate and graduate student education; acquire and disseminate knowledge about marine organisms, processes, and environmental issues; and encourage collaborative interdisciplinary marine research among academic and other marine research facilities. Acquisition of an automated DNA sequencer, image analysis system, thermal cyclers, PCR work station and additional versatile equipment will make available new and exciting capabilities for scientists and students at the College of Charleston and beyond. Projects of the nine resident GML faculty and their students include study of microbial diversity in marine sediments, molecular mechanisms of immune responses in fish and shrimp, patterns of paternity in sea turtles, antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria in aquaculture, and phylogenetic studies of marine invertebrates and fish.This shared-use facility will benefit faculty and student research, undergraduate and graduate students, and a broader group of visiting scientists and summer interns at the GML. Furthermore, these resources will be available to our partners in the larger community at the Fort Johnson research complex, which includes scientists at the laboratories of the South Carolina Marine Resources Research Institute, the Marine Biomedical and Environmental Studies Program of the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Charleston laboratories of the National Ocean Service and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.