Funding
The Wildlife Genetics Lab was made possible by funding from several organizations and private donors. These include:
USDA, APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service), Wildlife ServicesTall Timbers Research Station
The Warnell School of Forest Resources
The University of Georgia
Northeast Georgia Chapter, Quail Unlimited
Collaborators
Tall Timbers Research Station
USDA, APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service), Wildlife Services
Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center
The Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources
The Albany Area Quail Project
Resources
The Widlife Genetics Lab is a fully-functional molecular genetics lab designed for use with samples collected from various species of mammals, birds, and reptiles. Space is available for 4-6 concurrent projects, depending on their size. Equipment and instrumentation in the lab include:
- ABI 377 DNA Sequencer
- Bio-Rad Thermal Cyclers
- Brinkmann-Eppendorf plate- and micro-centrifuges
- Rainin LTS single- and multi-channel pipets
- Hamilton 8-channel Gel Loading Syringe
- -20 and -80 Freezers
- Mettler-Toledo PL303 Balance
- Fisher Scientific 20L Shaking Water-bath
- Fisher Scientific 5L Water-bath
- Vortex Mixers
- ABI Genescan and Genemapper Software
This Server
This website is hosted on a FreeBSD server housed at the University of Georgia. Websites hosted on the server were hand-coded using a combination of XHTML and CSS. Pages are served up both statically and dynamically using a combination of The Apache HTTP server, PHP, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
What's New?
8 April 2005
Software Page added
13 January 2005
Site update, new stylesheet, information, links, header images, etc.
20 October 2004
Protocols finally posted
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