An Automated DNA Sequencer for the Department of Biology at Boston University

该奖项为购买自动DNA测序仪和相关软件提供支持。该仪器将放置在系DNA测序设施中，这是一个共享资源，为22个生物学教职研究小组和化学、心理学和生物医学工程系的少数研究人员提供服务。该仪器将加强跨越生物组织范围的研究活动，从分子进化、基因组学和生物信息学的分析，到行为生态学、种群生物学和系统学。该仪器还将提供重要的培训机会，因为学生能够使用该设施中的仪器在整个数据收集和分析过程中采集自己的样本。该设施是我们暑期本科研究项目的重要资源，该项目为来自非研究机构的学生提供研究机会，并为分子生物学的高级本科课程提供研究机会。教员小组的研究项目涵盖了各种主题，包括旨在促进生物多样性保护的种群遗传分析，对植物和动物发育潜在遗传机制的分子发展研究。

This award provides support for purchase of an automatic DNA sequencer and associated software. The instrument will be placed in a departmental DNA Sequencing Facility, a shared resource serving 22 faculty research groups in Biology and a smaller number of researchers in the Departments of Chemistry, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering. The instrument will enhance research activities spaning the range of biological organization, from analyses of molecular evolution, genomics, and bioinformatics, to behavioral ecology, population biology and systematics. The instrumentation will also provide significant training opportunities as students are able to use the instruments in the facility to take their own samples through the entire process of data collection and analysis. The Facility is an important resource for our summer undergraduate research program, which provides research opportunities to students from non-research institutions, and for an advanced undergraduate course in molecular biology. The research projects of the faculty groups encompass a variety of topics, including population genetic analyses expected to facilitate conservation of biodiversity, molecular developmental studies of the genetic mechanisms underlying development in both plants and animals.