Bicoastal Marmoset Breeding Center

双海岸狨猴繁育中心

• 批准号: 10029350
• 负责人: XIAOQIN WANG
• 金额: $ 112.38万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-15 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10029350
• 关键词: Address; Air; Animals; Area; Automobile Driving; Biological Models; Brain Diseases; Breeding; California; Callithrix; Callithrix jacchus jacchus; Colorado; Communities; Country; Fostering; Funding; Genetic Variation; Growth; Human; Institutes; Investments; Japan; Laboratories; Modeling; Molecular; Neurosciences; Neurosciences Research; Paper; Population; Principal Investigator; Production; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Scientific Inquiry; Ships; Surveys; System; Techniques; Transportation; United States; Universities; animal resource; cognitive function; cost; design; experience; genetic manipulation; improved; meetings; nervous system disorder; neuropsychiatric disorder; programs; public health relevance; technique development

Project Summary The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) has experienced unprecedented growth in research across the United States and is rapidly emerging as a likely keystone biomedical model system in the next chapter of scientific discovery. Over the past decade, the number of marmoset laboratories in the US has quadrupled. There are now over 40 Principal Investigators who use marmoset as the model system in their research. Neuroscience is the primary engine driving marmoset research today, as nearly three quarters of marmoset researchers in the US use this model species to examine molecular, systems or cognitive functions in normal and diseased brains. Although these grassroots have been successfully forged new paths of scientific inquiry using marmosets in the U.S., critical bottlenecks have emerged that threaten to thwart the continued growth of this emerging model system. We propose to establish a Bicoastal Marmoset Breeding center, with two breeding colonies, one on the East Coast at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the other on the West Coast at University of California at San Diego (UCSD). The Center aims to produce a large number of marmosets to supply the marmoset research community in the U.S. Because of the non-availability of air transport of NHP in U.S. and prohibitively expensive ground transportation of NHP between the east and west coast, these two breeding colonies are strategically located to support the marmoset community in regions near each colony. We believe such a center is needed to address the national shortage of marmosets in order for the marmoset model to realize its full potential as a keystone species in the next chapter of neuroscience that serves to accelerate the rate of discovery and better understand human neurological disease.

项目摘要 在全世界范围内，常见的绒猴(Callithrix Jacchus)的研究经历了前所未有的增长 美国，并正在迅速崛起为可能的Keystone生物医学模型系统的下一章 科学发现。在过去的十年里，美国的绒猴实验室数量翻了两番。 目前有超过40名首席调查人员在研究中使用绒猴作为模型系统。 神经科学是当今推动绒猴研究的主要引擎，因为近四分之三的绒猴 美国的研究人员使用这种模式物种来检查正常人的分子、系统或认知功能 和有病的大脑。尽管这些草根们成功地开辟了科学探究的新道路 在美国使用毛猴，出现了严重的瓶颈，威胁到毛猴的持续增长 这个新兴的模型系统。我们建议建立一个沿海马毛赛特繁育中心，有两个 繁殖殖民地，一个在东海岸的约翰·霍普金斯大学(JHU)，另一个在西海岸 在加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)。该中心的目标是生产大量的绒猴，以 向美国的绒猴研究界提供帮助。因为NHP在#年无法进行空运 美国和令人望而却步的NHP在东西海岸之间的地面交通，这两个 繁殖蜂群位于战略位置，以支持每个蜂群附近地区的绒猴群落。 我们认为，需要这样一个中心来解决全国范围内的绒猴短缺问题，以便饲养绒猴。 在神经科学的下一章中，为实现其作为关键物种的全部潜力而建立的模型 加快发现速度，更好地了解人类神经疾病。