Acquisition of a capillary DNA sequencer for The New York Botanical Garden

为纽约植物园采购毛细管 DNA 测序仪

• 批准号: 0520709
• 负责人: Kenneth Cameron
• 金额: $ 14.65万
• 依托单位: New York Botanical Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0520709&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; capillary; DNA; sequencer; New

A grant has been awarded to the New York Botanical Garden under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Cameron for partial support of the purchase of a capillary DNA sequencer to be housed within the Garden's new Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory. The machine will be used for data collection by the scientists, students, and visitors from the USA and abroad who are expected to pass through the facility. The New York Botanical Garden is a world leader in the field of plant and fungal molecular biology research, and its Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Program for Molecular Systematics Studies has trained more than 100 visiting scientists, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students from no fewer than 30 countries since it was created in 1994. Most of its research is concerned with gene sequencing for phylogeny reconstruction, DNA barcoding for plant identification, and molecular fingerprinting for addressing questions of genetic diversity and plant conservation.Most of the investigators involved with research projects also supervise visiting scientists, postdocs, and/or students who are participants in their respective research projects. In addition to housing the capillary DNA sequencer, the Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory will also house the Garden's Graduate Studies Program, which now includes approximately 36 Ph.D. candidates from the USA and abroad. The greatest number comes from Latin America, where many former graduates now hold leadership positions in area universities and government organizations. Thus, in addition to research, the Plant Research Laboratory and especially the molecular programs at The New York Botanical Garden are also critical for their role in developing human resources in the biological sciences worldwide. All of the Garden's students recognize the need for experience with molecular techniques in order for them to be competitive for future educational opportunities and/or careers in teaching and research, and for this reason, nearly every doctoral student enrolled at the Garden passes through the molecular laboratory at one point or another during their studies to receive appropriate training. Finally, as stated earlier, The New York Botanical Garden has become recognized as one of few institutions in the world where both senior scientists as well as students from abroad can come to be trained in the most modern techniques of molecular biodiversity studies. Access to the most state-of-the art DNA sequencing equipment will be invaluable to all of these scientists.

在 Kenneth Cameron 博士的指导下，纽约植物园获得了一笔赠款，用于部分支持购买毛细管 DNA 测序仪，该测序仪将安装在植物园新的辉瑞植物研究实验室内。 该机器将用于预计将通过该设施的科学家、学生和来自美国和国外的游客收集数据。 纽约植物园是植物和真菌分子生物学研究领域的世界领先者，其 Lewis B. 和 Dorothy Cullman 分子系统学研究项目已培训了 100 多名客座科学家、博士后、研究生和本科生，他们来自不同国家。自 1994 年创建以来，已在 30 多个国家开展研究。其大部分研究涉及用于系统发育重建的基因测序、用于植物识别的 DNA 条形码以及用于解决遗传多样性和植物问题的分子指纹识别。大多数参与研究项目的研究人员还监督参与各自研究项目的访问科学家、博士后和/或学生。 除了容纳毛细管 DNA 测序仪外，辉瑞植物研究实验室还将容纳花园的研究生项目，该项目目前包括大约 36 名博士生。来自美国和国外的候选人。 其中最多的人来自拉丁美洲，许多以前的毕业生现在在地区大学和政府组织中担任领导职务。 因此，除了研究之外，植物研究实验室，尤其是纽约植物园的分子项目对于开发全球生物科学人力资源也至关重要。 花园的所有学生都认识到需要分子技术经验，以便他们在未来的教育机会和/或教学和研究职业中具有竞争力，因此，几乎每个在花园注册的博士生都通过分子技术在学习期间的某个时间点实验室接受适当的培训。 最后，如前所述，纽约植物园已被公认为世界上为数不多的能够让资深科学家和国外学生接受分子生物多样性研究最现代技术培训的机构之一。 获得最先进的 DNA 测序设备对于所有这些科学家来说都是无价的。