MRI: Acquisition of an automated genetic analyzer by the Department of Biology at Middle Tennessee State University

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。田纳西州中部州立大学生物系获得了一笔赠款，用于购买具有DNA测序和基因分型功能的ABI 3130 xl自动遗传分析仪。MTSU生物学系的长期目标是维持进行当代研究的教师，获得有竞争力的外部资金以维持他们的研究计划，并让研究生和本科生参与动态研究和教学。该工具将扩大研究的可能途径，并加强现有的研究活动，为当前的教师。此外，该仪器将支持学生的DNA测序和DNA片段分析教学。 在MTSU生物系的许多教师都在从事研究，跨越测序和基因分型应用的广度和使用这种设备将允许他们和他们的教师导师回答有关基本分子遗传学，诊断学和确定的问题间和物种内的关系。使用该遗传分析仪收集的数据将通过公共数据库（如GenBank、Moorea Biocode Database和Tree of Life）提供。 数据分析和项目的完整描述将发表在同行评审的期刊上，如Cladistics，Molecular Ecology，Proceedings of the皇家学会，American Journal of Botany，Systematic Entomology和Evolution等。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Biology Department at Middle Tennessee State University has been awarded a grant to purchase an ABI 3130xl automated genetic analyzer with DNA sequencing and genotyping capabilities. The long term goal of the Biology Department at MTSU is to maintain faculty who conduct contemporary research, obtain competitive external funding to maintain their research programs and engage graduate and undergraduate students in dynamic research and instruction. This instrument will expand possible avenues of research and enhancing existing research activities for current faculty. Additionally, this instrument will support instruction for students in DNA sequencing and DNA fragment analysis. Many of the faculty in the Biology Department at MTSU are engaged in research that span the breadth of sequencing and genotyping applications and the use of this equipment will allow them and their faculty mentors to answer questions related to basic molecular genetics, diagnostics, and determination of inter- and intra-species relationships. Data collected with this genetic analyzer will be available through public databases such as GenBank, Moorea Biocode Database, and Tree of Life. Analysis of data and full descriptions of projects will be published in peer reviewed journals such as Cladistics, Molecular Ecology, Proceedings of the Royal Society, American Journal of Botany, Systematic Entomology, and Evolution, among others.