MRCF Personnel

The MRCF is a small team consisting of ISU employees and a rotating number of student interns who we train in all things molecular. We work with internal faculty members, as well as external collaborators from other institutes and companies.

Below is information about our laboratory, the equipment we have for shared use and a brief overview of how we were established. For more information about the services we provide, please visit our  page.

History of the MRCF

The MRCF was established in 1994, and has grown continuously with the aid of significant extramural funding from the NIH and NSF, as well as ISU Colleges and the Office of Research. The first major expansion of the MRCF occurred in the spring of 2002 to accommodate research functions of a National Institutes of Health Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (NIH BRIN) grant. The MRCF underwent a second major expansion during the spring of 2006 when we were awarded a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (NSF MRI) grant to obtain more research equipment.

The MRCF has proven to be of critical importance to ISU investigators in the areas of molecular genetics, microbiology, developmental biology, physiology, anatomy, neurobiology, molecular evolution and systematics, phylogenetics, population genetics, bioinformatics, comparative and computational genetics, and pharmaceutical sciences. In addition, because the MRCF is central to ISU's training of the next generation of molecular scientists, both undergraduate and graduate students use its resources extensively. The MRCF also serves the DNA sequencing and genotyping needs of an increasing number of investigators at other institutions throughout the state and the nation.