Collaborative Research: Fungal Genetics Stock Center

这是为真菌遗传学储备中心（FGSC）提供新支持的两个奖项之一，该中心自1985年以来一直位于堪萨斯大学医学中心（UMKC）。 在支持的第一年结束时，FGSC将搬到堪萨斯城的密苏里州大学（UMKC），其运作的责任将转移到一个新的主任。 授予UKMC的资金支持该机构最后一年的运作以及将收藏品转移到UMKC的费用。授予UMKC的合同将支持未来四年的运营。这种支持确保继续维持和改进收集，其中包括遗传标记的脉孢菌属、曲霉属、Magnaporthe菌株，以及在较小程度上的其他丝状真菌菌株。FGSC提供的16，000多个可靠的遗传资源促进了这些生物体在真菌遗传学和系统学以及分子生物学，生物化学和其他相关领域的基础和应用研究中的应用。 收藏中的一些菌株也用于教育目的。FGSC还维护和分发来自丝状真菌的单个克隆DNA以及克隆基因组和cDNA库。 对菌株和DNA克隆收取适度的费用。FGSC还编写了真菌遗传学通讯（迄今已出版48期）和可用培养物和服务的印刷目录。该保藏中心的工作人员维护一个网站（www.fgsc.net），其中包括保藏中心所有菌株的清单以及真菌遗传学家感兴趣的其他信息，有用方法的细节，最近几期的真菌遗传学通讯，最近真菌遗传学会议的摘要和与真菌遗传学有关的论文书目。

This is one of two awards providing renewed support for the Fungal Genetics Stock Center (FGSC), which has been located at the University of Kansas Medical Center (UMKC) since 1985. At the end of the first year of support, the FGSC will move to the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) and responsibility for its operation will shift to a new Director. Funds awarded to the UKMC support the final year of operation at that institution as well as the cost of moving the collection to UMKC. The award to UMKC supports operation in the subsequent four years. The support insures the continued maintenance and improvement of the collection which includes genetically marked strains of Neurospora, Aspergillus, Magnaporthe and, to a lesser extent, strains of other filamentous fungi. The ready availability of more than 16,000 reliable genetic stocks from FGSC has stimulated the use of these organisms for basic and applied research in fungal genetics and systematics, as well as molecular biology, biochemistry, and other related fields. A number of strains in the collection are also used for educational purposes. The FGSC also maintains and distributes individual cloned DNAs and libraries of cloned genomic and cDNAs from filamentous fungi. A modest fee is charged for strains and DNA clones. The Fungal Genetics Newsletter (48 issues to date) and a printed catalog of available cultures and services are also prepared by the FGSC. The collection's staff maintain a web site (www.fgsc.net) that includes a list of all strains in the collection as well as other information of interest to fungal geneticists details of useful methods, recent issues of the Fungal Genetics Newsletter, abstracts from recent fungal genetics meetings and bibliographies of papers related to fungal genetics.