NSF Award Abstract - #0208278| NSF Award Abstract - #0208278 |
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| NSF Org | IBN |
| Latest Amendment Date | June 19, 2003 |
| Award Number | 0208278 |
| Award Instrument | Continuing grant |
| Program Manager |
Judith Plesset IBN DIV OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIE BIO DIRECT FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES |
| Start Date | July 15, 2002 |
| Expires | June 30, 2005 (Estimated) |
| Expected Total Amount | $700000 (Estimated) |
| Investigator |
Jeanne Romero-Severson (Principal Investigator current) Jeffrey P. Tomkins (Co-Principal Investigator current) |
| Sponsor |
Purdue University 610 Purdue Mall West Lafayette, IN 47907 765/494-4600 |
| NSF Program | 1111 DEVELOPMENTAL MECHANISMS PROG |
| Field Application | 0000099 Other Applications NEC |
| Program Reference Code | 1080,1619,9183,BIOT, |
0208278 Romero-SeversonDr. Romero-Severson and colleagues propose the construction of BAC libraries for five insect taxa (Tribolium castaneum, Nassonia vitripennis, Oncopeltus fasciatus, Thermobia domestica and Schistocerca Americana) selected for their phylogenetic position, scientific importance and scarcity of existing genomic resources. These taxa represent the insect orders Coleoptera (beetles), Hymenoptera (wasps and bees), Hemiptera (true bugs), Thysanura (silverfish) and Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets). In combination with the whole genome sequences of the Dipteran insects Drosophila melanogaster and Anopheles gambiae, these libraries will enable the scientific community to test important hypotheses concerning insect genetics, genomics, development, ecology, systematics, and evolution. This effort will dovetail with the ongoing development of an insect genomics database at Purdue University.
The Clemson University Genomics Institute (CUGI) is the subcontractor for the BAC library construction. Over the past five years, the CUGI BAC/EST Resource Center has constructed most of the plant and fungal BAC libraries used in agricultural genomics. The CUGI BAC/EST Resource Center will supply the insect libraries as high-density hybridization filters and clones on a cost recovery basis for academic programs.
