Animal Research Facility Improvements

描述（由申请人提供）：资金要求装备动物研究空间在加州戴维斯基因组和生物医学科学设施（GBSF）的大学。固定笼架的增加将把这个空间变成一个国家的最先进的啮齿动物屏障设施，以服务于所有的校园，并将提供所需的关键设施，以支持我们的国际尊重小鼠生物学计划。该项目的完成将使我们能够实现我们的长期目标，即利用啮齿动物作为平台，在多个研究项目中解决生物医学科学中的关键问题。作为“营养基因组学卓越中心”的接受者，因此，作为新兴卓越的指定机构，这些资金将加速我们在最广泛意义上的基因组学研究的增长。凭借其现代动物研究空间，GBSF将使我们能够将基础基因组学和蛋白质组学、分子医学、生物医学工程、生物信息学和生物统计学领域的研究人员联合收割机结合起来。这些跨学科项目将汇集已建立的研究人员，新的研究人员，研究人员和访问科学家谁使用啮齿动物作为动物模型在一个中心位置的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested to equip animal research space in the University of California Davis Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility (GBSF). The addition of fixed cage racks will transform this space into a stateof- the-art rodent barrier facility to serve all of campus and will provide critical facilities needed to underpin our internationally respected Mouse Biology Program. Completion of this project will allow us to fulfill our longterm objective to use rodents as a platform to attack critical questions in biomedical sciences in multiple research programs. As a recipient of a "Center of Excellence in Nutritional Genomics" and, therefore, a designated institution of emerging excellence, these funds will accelerate our growth in research in genomics in the broadest sense of the word. With its modern animal research space, the GBSF will allow us to combine forces of researchers in basic genomics and proteomics, molecular medicine, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, and biostatistics. These cross-disciplinary programs will bring together established investigators, new investigators, research fellows and visiting scientists who use rodents as animal models in a centrally located research.