Acquisition of a capillary DNA sequencer for The New York Botanical Garden

为纽约植物园采购毛细管 DNA 测序仪

• 批准号: 0520709
• 负责人: Kenneth Cameron
• 金额: $ 14.65万
• 依托单位: New York Botanical Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0520709&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; capillary; DNA; sequencer; New

A grant has been awarded to the New York Botanical Garden under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Cameron for partial support of the purchase of a capillary DNA sequencer to be housed within the Garden's new Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory. The machine will be used for data collection by the scientists, students, and visitors from the USA and abroad who are expected to pass through the facility. The New York Botanical Garden is a world leader in the field of plant and fungal molecular biology research, and its Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Program for Molecular Systematics Studies has trained more than 100 visiting scientists, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students from no fewer than 30 countries since it was created in 1994. Most of its research is concerned with gene sequencing for phylogeny reconstruction, DNA barcoding for plant identification, and molecular fingerprinting for addressing questions of genetic diversity and plant conservation.Most of the investigators involved with research projects also supervise visiting scientists, postdocs, and/or students who are participants in their respective research projects. In addition to housing the capillary DNA sequencer, the Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory will also house the Garden's Graduate Studies Program, which now includes approximately 36 Ph.D. candidates from the USA and abroad. The greatest number comes from Latin America, where many former graduates now hold leadership positions in area universities and government organizations. Thus, in addition to research, the Plant Research Laboratory and especially the molecular programs at The New York Botanical Garden are also critical for their role in developing human resources in the biological sciences worldwide. All of the Garden's students recognize the need for experience with molecular techniques in order for them to be competitive for future educational opportunities and/or careers in teaching and research, and for this reason, nearly every doctoral student enrolled at the Garden passes through the molecular laboratory at one point or another during their studies to receive appropriate training. Finally, as stated earlier, The New York Botanical Garden has become recognized as one of few institutions in the world where both senior scientists as well as students from abroad can come to be trained in the most modern techniques of molecular biodiversity studies. Access to the most state-of-the art DNA sequencing equipment will be invaluable to all of these scientists.

在肯尼斯·卡梅隆博士的指导下，纽约植物园获得了一笔赠款，用于部分支持购买一台毛细管DNA测序仪，该测序仪将安装在植物园新的辉瑞植物研究实验室内。 该机器将用于科学家，学生和来自美国和国外的游客的数据收集，预计他们将通过该设施。 纽约植物园在植物和真菌分子生物学研究领域处于世界领先地位，其刘易斯B。和多萝西卡尔曼分子系统学研究计划自1994年创建以来，已经培训了来自不少于30个国家的100多名访问科学家，博士后，研究生和本科生。 其主要研究领域包括用于植物遗传重建的基因测序，用于植物鉴定的DNA条形码，以及用于解决遗传多样性和植物保护问题的分子指纹图谱。参与研究项目的大多数研究人员还负责指导访问科学家，博士后和/或参与各自研究项目的学生。 除了容纳毛细管DNA测序仪，辉瑞植物研究实验室还将容纳花园的研究生学习计划，其中包括大约36名博士。来自美国和国外的候选人。 最大的数字来自拉丁美洲，许多以前的毕业生现在在地区大学和政府组织担任领导职务。 因此，除了研究，植物研究实验室，特别是在纽约植物园的分子计划也是他们在开发全球生物科学人力资源的作用至关重要。 所有的花园的学生认识到需要与分子技术的经验，以使他们有竞争力的未来教育机会和/或职业生涯中的教学和研究，出于这个原因，几乎每一个博士生在花园注册通过分子实验室在一个点或另一个在他们的研究期间接受适当的培训。 最后，如前所述，纽约植物园已被公认为世界上为数不多的机构之一，高级科学家和来自国外的学生都可以接受分子生物多样性研究最现代技术的培训。 获得最先进的DNA测序设备对所有这些科学家来说都是无价的。