Biological Structure Research Facility Renovation

描述（由申请人提供）： 华盛顿大学医学院要求提供资金进行翻修，以改善20，419平方英尺的多学科研究空间，用于NIH资助的生物结构系的神经生物学，发育生物学，视觉科学，分子结构和结构信息学项目。改造将增加近55%的干湿实验室研究空间，从10，453平方英尺。至16，132平方英尺通过重组和搬迁办公空间，加上额外分配的2 859平方米，英尺研究室的H区医学院对生物结构系的承诺包括七个新的常规教师职位。改造后的实验室将加强现有项目之间的互动，将合作的科学家带到相邻的空间，并整合一些共用设备，这些设备有时位于离使用这些设备的研究人员几层楼远的地方。改造后的实验室将提供现代化的研究空间和公共区域，供不同实验室的科学家进行非正式讨论，从而鼓励新的研究合作。开放式实验室设计将鼓励和促进创新的多学科方法，从分子到人类的结构水平，因为生物结构系扩大了与整个健康科学和医学院的部门，计划和中心的研究合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Washington School of Medicine requests funding for renovations to improve 20,419 square feet of multidisciplinary research space for NIH funded programs in Neurobiology, Developmental Biology, Vision Sciences, Molecular Structure and Structural Informatics in the Department of Biological Structure. The renovation will increase the wet and dry laboratory research space by nearly 55%, from 10,453 sq.ft. to 16,132 sq.ft. through the reorganization and relocation of office space, plus the assignment of an additional 2,859 sq. ft. of research space in the H-wing to the Department. The commitment to the Department of Biological Structure from the School of Medicine includes seven new regular faculty positions. The renovation is expected to enhance interactions between current programs by bringing collaborating scientists into contiguous space and consolidating common equipment that, in some cases, is located several floors away from the researchers who use it. The renovation will encourage new research collaboration by providing modern research space and common areas for informal discussion between scientists from different laboratories. The open laboratory design will encourage and facilitate innovative multidisciplinary approaches from the molecular to human levels of structure as the Department of Biological Structure expands research collaborations with departments, programs and centers throughout the Health Sciences and School of Medicine.