EXTRAMULAR RESEARCH FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION

描述（由申请人提供）： 拟议的建设是对西南生物医学研究基金会现有实验室建筑的26，918平方英尺的翻新，将为遗传学系的8名教师和2名高级科学家提供办公室和实验室。 这一拟议建设是SFBR实验室设施现代化多阶段总体规划的一个组成部分，旨在提供符合生物医学研究实验室现行安全标准的设施。 第一阶段于1997年开始，第二阶段于2000年开始，拟议的建设是该计划第三阶段的一部分。 该提案的具体目标是为分子和统计遗传学研究方案的研究人员提供“湿”和“干”实验室设施，通过增加研究方案之间共享的核心空间数量，促进实验室空间的有效利用，将这些方案置于其现有实验室不存在的生物安全2级条件下，通过将实验室设在相邻空间并将所有办公室设在相邻空间，这将促进分子遗传学家与分子和统计遗传学家之间的科学互动。 因此，拟议的实验室设施的设计将提供这些方案目前所需的有效空间，同时也改善了教师和工作人员的合作研究环境。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed construction is a renovation of 26,918 net square feet of an existing laboratory building at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research that will provide offices and laboratories for 8 faculty and 2 senior staff scientists in the Department of Genetics. This proposed construction is an integral part of a multiphase master plan to modernize the laboratory facilities at SFBR, with the intent of providing facilities that adhere to current safety standards for biomedical research laboratories. Phase I was started in 1997, Phase II started in 2000, and the proposed construction represent a portion of the Phase III of the plan. The specific aims of this proposal are to provide "wet" and "dry" laboratory facilities for investigators with research programs in molecular and statistical genetics that will promote the efficient use of laboratory space by increasing the amount of core space shared between research programs, that will place these programs in biosafety level 2 conditions that do not exist in their current laboratories, and that will foster scientific interactions between the molecular geneticists and the molecular and statistical geneticists by locating laboratories in adjacent space and locating all offices in adjacent space. Thus, the design of the proposed laboratory facility will provide efficient space currently needed by these programs while also improving the collaborative research environment for faculty and staff.