Acquisition of Instrumentation for Omics Research at the University of Arizona

在大卫冈博士的指导下，向亚利桑那大学提供了一笔赠款，用于部分支持购置现代生物科学研究和培训所需的主要仪器。这项研究现在将多种技术整合到研究计划中，以允许新的方法来测试有关植物，动物，昆虫和微生物中重要和基本生物过程的假设。促进这种多学科的研究方法是亚利桑那大学生物5研究所的主要目标。BIO5是一个合作生物研究机构，汇集了来自农业，医学，药学，基础科学和工程等5个学科的科学家，以解决复杂的生物学问题。新的仪器，这将是一个微阵列spotter，将使生物5扩展到转录组分析和功能基因组学研究的新领域。这台仪器将允许生物5的研究人员，并通过合作，其他研究人员在整个UA校园，整合基因组学，转录组学和相关的数据和技术到他们的研究。微生物学家、植物遗传学家、药理学家、细胞生物学家、神经生物学家等，谁是生物5的一部分或谁与生物5教师互动会发现，他们将能够通过这种仪器获得的数据类型将是非常有益的，他们的研究。通过该仪器获得的数据将成为跨学科组学领域研究生，本科生和博士后研究项目的一部分。 此外，将使用这种仪器的教师积极参与旨在教育社会现代生物科学的重要性和实用性的计划。其中一个项目是植物基因组学教师实习项目，旨在为职前和在职生物学教师提供亚利桑那大学植物基因组学的大学实验室经验。该计划旨在为实习教师提供了解科学本质的机会，获得科学探究的第一手经验，并更好地了解和分享他们对遗传学，基因组学和植物生物学的想法。 此外，亚利桑那大学每年举办两次微阵列研讨会，与会者来自全国各地和其他国家。该仪器将用于支持本次研讨会。

A grant has been awarded to the University of Arizona under the direction of Dr. David Gang for partial support of acquisition of major instrumentation for research and training in the modern biological sciences. This research now integrates multiple technologies within research programs to allow for new ways to test hypotheses about important and fundamental biological processes in plants, animals, insects and microbes. Fostering such multidisciplinary research approaches is a major goal of the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona. BIO5 is a collaborative bioresearch institute that brings together scientists from 5 disciplines-agriculture, medicine, pharmacy, basic science and engineering-to solve complex biological problems. The new instrumentation, which will be a microarray spotter, will enable BIO5 to expand into new areas in transcriptome analysis and functional genomics research.This instrument will allow researchers in BIO5, and through collaborations other researchers across the UA campus, to integrate genomics, transcriptomics and related data and technologies into their research. Microbiologists, plant geneticists, pharmacologists, cell biologists, neurobiologists, etc., who are part of BIO5 or who interact with BIO5 faculty will find that the types of data that they will be able to acquire through this instrument will be very beneficial to their research. Data acquired through this instrumentation will be part of the research projects of graduate students, undergraduate students and post-docs in the field of interdisciplinary omics. In addition, the faculty that will use this instrumentation are actively engaged in programs that seek to educate the community about the importance and utility of modern biological science. One such program, the Teacher Internships in Plant Genomics Program is designed to provide pre-service and in-service biology teachers with university-based lab experience in plant genomics at the University of Arizona. This program is designed to provide Teacher Interns with opportunities to understand the nature of science, gain first-hand experience in scientific inquiry, and to better understand and share their ideas about genetics, genomics, and plant biology. In addition, a workshop on microarrays is held twice a year at the University of Arizona, and includes participants from around the country and from other nations. This instrumentation will be used to support this workshop.