MRI: Acquisition of an automated genetic analyzer by the Department of Biology at Middle Tennessee State University

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。中田纳西州立大学（Middle Tennessee State University）生物系获得了购买ABI 3130xl自动基因分析仪的资助，该分析仪具有DNA测序和基因分型功能。MTSU生物系的长期目标是维持从事当代研究的教师，获得有竞争力的外部资金来维持他们的研究项目，并吸引研究生和本科生参与动态的研究和教学。该工具将扩大可能的研究途径，并加强现有教师的现有研究活动。此外，该仪器将为学生提供DNA测序和DNA片段分析的指导。MTSU生物系的许多教师从事的研究跨越了测序和基因分型应用的广度，使用这些设备将使他们和他们的教师导师能够回答与基本分子遗传学、诊断和确定物种间和物种内关系有关的问题。该基因分析仪收集的数据将通过GenBank、Moorea Biocode数据库和Tree of Life等公共数据库提供。对数据的分析和项目的完整描述将发表在同行评议的期刊上，如分类学、分子生态学、英国皇家学会学报、美国植物学杂志、系统昆虫学和进化等。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Biology Department at Middle Tennessee State University has been awarded a grant to purchase an ABI 3130xl automated genetic analyzer with DNA sequencing and genotyping capabilities. The long term goal of the Biology Department at MTSU is to maintain faculty who conduct contemporary research, obtain competitive external funding to maintain their research programs and engage graduate and undergraduate students in dynamic research and instruction. This instrument will expand possible avenues of research and enhancing existing research activities for current faculty. Additionally, this instrument will support instruction for students in DNA sequencing and DNA fragment analysis. Many of the faculty in the Biology Department at MTSU are engaged in research that span the breadth of sequencing and genotyping applications and the use of this equipment will allow them and their faculty mentors to answer questions related to basic molecular genetics, diagnostics, and determination of inter- and intra-species relationships. Data collected with this genetic analyzer will be available through public databases such as GenBank, Moorea Biocode Database, and Tree of Life. Analysis of data and full descriptions of projects will be published in peer reviewed journals such as Cladistics, Molecular Ecology, Proceedings of the Royal Society, American Journal of Botany, Systematic Entomology, and Evolution, among others.