MRI: Aquisition of Genetic Instrumentation for a New Core Facility at the University of South Dakota

MRI：南达科他大学新核心设施购置遗传仪器

• 批准号: 0923419
• 负责人: Jacob Kerby
• 金额: $ 32.18万
• 依托单位: University of South Dakota Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0923419&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Aquisition; Genetic; Instrumentation; New

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funding from this project has established a shared-user molecular genetic and genomic facility in the Biology Department at the University of South Dakota. Our faculty members share a common set of molecular research approaches in the fields of ecology, evolutionary and conservation genetics, and developmental biology. Due to the productivity and common usage of molecular instruments by these faculty members, and others in the Division of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, the University of South Dakota has dedicated new space for a completely renovated Molecular Genetic and Genomic Core Facility. This shared laboratory space in the Biology Department will maintain state of the art equipment for use in both research and teaching. Research projects utilizing these instruments are wide-ranging and their acquisition will benefit the research programs of many faculty, including students involved in those program, which comprise the majority of graduate students in our doctoral and masters programs, a large number of undergraduate researchers, our local community through our participation in K-12 outreach, and local Native American communities through their direct participation in our research projects. While each of the faculty has their own research specialization, there is clear collaboration between projects that will be further enhanced by a shared space with the requested instrumentation. The genomics facility will be used to train a considerable (and growing) number of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers via both formal annual workshops and in individual research projects. In addition, the equipment will be demonstrated and used in existing undergraduate and graduate courses. Finally, several of the projects using our current genetic analyzer involve collaborative work with local Native American tribes in their communities on tribal lands. Acquisition of this instrumentation will enhance this work and will allow the PIs to offer authentic, full-scale research experiences to two high school students, and will involve tribal biologists and community members from the Lower Brule Reservation in field work on local organisms and study systems. This interaction will establish a basis for future relationships to introduce young Native American students to science.

该奖项根据 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）提供资金。该项目的资金在南达科他大学生物系建立了共享用户分子遗传和基因组设施。 我们的教师在生态学、进化和保护遗传学以及发育生物学领域拥有一套共同的分子研究方法。 由于这些教员以及基础和生物医学科学部的其他人员对分子仪器的生产力和普遍使用，南达科他大学专门为彻底翻新的分子遗传和基因组核心设施开辟了新空间。 生物系的这个共享实验室空间将保留用于研究和教学的最先进的设备。 利用这些仪器的研究项目范围广泛，获得这些仪器将有利于许多教师的研究项目，包括参与这些项目的学生（其中包括我们博士和硕士课程的大多数研究生）、大量本科生研究人员、我们参与 K-12 外展的当地社区以及当地美洲原住民社区（通过他们直接参与我们的研究项目）。 虽然每个教师都有自己的研究专业，但项目之间存在明确的合作，通过共享空间和所需仪器将进一步加强合作。 基因组学设施将用于通过正式的年度研讨会和个人研究项目来培训相当多（且不断增长）的研究生和博士后研究人员。 此外，该设备还将在现有本科生和研究生课程中进行演示和使用。 最后，使用我们当前的基因分析仪的几个项目涉及与部落土地上社区的当地美洲原住民部落的合作。 购买该仪器将加强这项工作，并使 PI 能够为两名高中生提供真实、全面的研究经验，并将让来自下布鲁尔保留地的部落生物学家和社区成员参与当地生物和研究系统的实地工作。这种互动将为未来向年轻的美国原住民学生介绍科学的关系奠定基础。