An Applied Biosystems 3730 DNA Analyzer for a Core Molecular Lab at a Natural History Museum

该合同为购买48毛细管DNA测序仪和相关软件提供部分支持。 该仪器将被放置在普利兹克分子系统学和进化实验室，这是一个多用户核心设施，为博物馆馆长，他们的学生和博士后，研究科学家和访问科学家提供进行分子工作所需的设备。目前，这些用户在系统学，分子进化，种群生物学和分子生态学领域的超过35个项目。普利兹克实验室的一个重要作用是培训新来的科学家和学生使用自动测序仪。 培训已提供给学生从当地的芝加哥地区大学以及来自美国和世界各地的机构。 这项培训帮助访问研究人员在路易斯安那州、印度、巴西和菲律宾建立了实验室。此外，该实验室还被用来教育当地高中和本科学生在博物馆的研究活动。

This award provides partial support for purchase of a 48 capillary DNA sequencer and related software. The instrument will be placed in the Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution, a multi-user core facility that supplies museum curators, their students and postdocs, research scientists and visiting scientists with the equipment necessary to perform molecular work. Currently, these users account for over 35 projects in the fields of systematics, molecular evolution, population biology, and molecular ecology. An important role of the Pritzker Lab is in training of incoming scientists and students in use of the automated sequencer. Training has been offered to students from local Chicago-area Universities as well as institutions from the U.S. and around the world. This training has helped visiting researchers to set up labs in Louisiana, India, Brazil and the Philippines. In addition, the lab has been used to educate groups of local high school and undergraduate students with respect to research activities at the Museum.