MRI: Aquisition of Genetic Instrumentation for a New Core Facility at the University of South Dakota

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。该项目的资金在南达科他州大学生物系建立了一个共享用户分子遗传和基因组设施。 我们的教师在生态学，进化和保护遗传学以及发育生物学领域分享一套共同的分子研究方法。 由于这些教师的生产力和分子仪器的共同使用，以及基础和生物医学科学部的其他人员，南达科他州大学为一个完全翻新的分子遗传和基因组核心设施提供了新的空间。 生物系的这个共享实验室空间将保持最先进的设备，用于研究和教学。 利用这些工具的研究项目范围广泛，它们的收购将有利于许多教师的研究计划，包括参与这些计划的学生，其中包括我们博士和硕士课程的大多数研究生，大量的本科研究人员，我们的当地社区通过我们参与K-12外展，和当地的美洲原住民社区通过他们直接参与我们的研究项目。 虽然每个教师都有自己的研究专业，但项目之间有明确的合作，这些合作将通过与所需仪器的共享空间进一步加强。 基因组学设施将用于通过正式的年度讲习班和个人研究项目培训相当数量（而且越来越多）的研究生和博士后研究人员。 此外，该设备将在现有的本科生和研究生课程中进行演示和使用。 最后，使用我们目前的遗传分析仪的几个项目涉及与当地美洲原住民部落在部落土地上的社区合作。 获得这种仪器将加强这项工作，并将使PI提供真实的，全面的研究经验，两名高中生，并将涉及部落生物学家和社区成员从下布鲁勒保留在实地工作对当地生物和研究系统。这种互动将为未来的关系奠定基础，向年轻的美洲原住民学生介绍科学。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funding from this project has established a shared-user molecular genetic and genomic facility in the Biology Department at the University of South Dakota. Our faculty members share a common set of molecular research approaches in the fields of ecology, evolutionary and conservation genetics, and developmental biology. Due to the productivity and common usage of molecular instruments by these faculty members, and others in the Division of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, the University of South Dakota has dedicated new space for a completely renovated Molecular Genetic and Genomic Core Facility. This shared laboratory space in the Biology Department will maintain state of the art equipment for use in both research and teaching. Research projects utilizing these instruments are wide-ranging and their acquisition will benefit the research programs of many faculty, including students involved in those program, which comprise the majority of graduate students in our doctoral and masters programs, a large number of undergraduate researchers, our local community through our participation in K-12 outreach, and local Native American communities through their direct participation in our research projects. While each of the faculty has their own research specialization, there is clear collaboration between projects that will be further enhanced by a shared space with the requested instrumentation. The genomics facility will be used to train a considerable (and growing) number of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers via both formal annual workshops and in individual research projects. In addition, the equipment will be demonstrated and used in existing undergraduate and graduate courses. Finally, several of the projects using our current genetic analyzer involve collaborative work with local Native American tribes in their communities on tribal lands. Acquisition of this instrumentation will enhance this work and will allow the PIs to offer authentic, full-scale research experiences to two high school students, and will involve tribal biologists and community members from the Lower Brule Reservation in field work on local organisms and study systems. This interaction will establish a basis for future relationships to introduce young Native American students to science.