Contribution to the building costs of the Institute of Chromosome Biology. (360G-Wellcome-080930_Z_06_Z)

This proposal requests funds from the Wellcome Trust for the furbishment of an Institute of Chromosome Biology, which will be housed within the proposed new Department of Biochemistry building of the University of Oxford on South Parks Road. The Department is currently housed in four different buildings, most of which are antiquated and lack sufficient space and the facilities necessary to attract scientific talent at an international level. A new building will house most faculty, including several who work in chromosomes, as well as new professiorial appointments and research groups led by principal, senior, and career development research fellows, working on the replication, repair, recombination, segregation, transcription, and developmental potential of chromosomes. The new building will include facilities for computational biology, bioinformatics, proteomics, optical imaging, protein and nucleic acid analysis, structural biology, and single molecule analysis.