RUI: Genetic and Molecular Polymorphism in Microbotryum Violaceum

亨利9723623这个项目为芝加哥州立大学的少数族裔学生提供了参与芝加哥大学当前研究项目的机会。目标是指导学生在遗传学的特定领域达到他们将有能力进行研究项目的水平，指导他们在工作中取得成功，并体验当前基因生物学的兴奋。学生应该在一所主要的研究型大学感到舒适和自信。这一经历应该会激发学生考虑和探索生物科学领域的职业。这些项目应该帮助学生，通过他们的研究档案，建立必要的自信，进入研究生学位课程。为此，学生将参与真菌遗传和分子多态证据的研究。用于这一目的的特定生物体是花药黑穗病真菌紫罗兰。这一物种的选择是由主要和联合主要研究人员实验室正在进行的研究预测的。他们对这个物种很熟悉，也有很长的经验。背景工作预计将导致对学生进行动手和思考体验的挑战的实验。所有的项目都是为了给学生提供真实的问题，而不是人为的问题。这六个关于传递遗传学的项目集中于检验这样一个假设，即紫罗兰中高度可变的基因座可以通过假设可转位元件(TE)的活动来解释。选择菌落颜色多态和营养缺陷型是因为实验操作相对容易，并且积累了合适的收集物。RAPDS检测到的多态性是两个项目的基础，这两个项目可能为检测与颜色、形态、营养需求和交配型基因座的连锁提供分子标记。这些实验的结果还将提供信息，以构建米氏杆菌Lacum和其他Ustilaginale的物理图谱。它可以提供线粒体基因组图谱，并提供感染双子叶和单子叶植物的真菌之间的系统发育关系的重要信息。

Henry 9723623 This project provides minority students at Chicago State University with opportunities to participate in current research projects at the University of Chicago. The goal is to instruct students in specific areas of genetics to the level that they will be competent to conduct a research project, to guide them to achieve success in their work and to experience the excitement in current genetic biology. Students should come to feel comfortable and confident at a major research university. The experience should stimulate students to consider and to explore careers in the biological sciences. The projects should help students, through their research archievements, to build the necessary self-confidence to enter a graduate degree program. To this end, students will participate in the research on the genetic and molecular evidence of polymorphisms in fungi. The specific organism for this purpose is the anther-smut fungus Microbotryum violaceum. The choice of this species is predicted by ongoing research in the Principal and Co-principal Investigators' laboratories. They have familiarity and long experience with the species. Background work is expected to lead to experiments that challenge students to engage in hands-on and minds-on experience. All projects are selected to provide students with real, rather than contrived, problems. The six projects on transmission gentics focus on testing the hypothesis that the highly mutable loci in M. violaceum may be explained by assuming the activity of a transposible element (TE). Polymorphism in colony color and auxotrophy were selected because the relative ease in experimental manipulation and the accumulation of appropriate collections. Polymorphisms detected by RAPDs is the basis for two projects that may provide molecular markers for the detection of linkage with color, morphology, nutritional requirement and mating type loci. The result of these experiments will also provide information to construct a physical map of the M. vio lacum and other Ustilaginales. It could yield a map of the mitochondrial genome and provide important information on the phylogenetic relatedness between and among the fungi that infect dicot and monocot plants.