ASU to Establish National Biorepository (VIDEO)
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The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) has named Arizona State University as its primary location to house a national biorepository for the next 30 years. Hundreds of thousands of biological samples collected over the next three decades from 81 field sites across the U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, will be curated by ASU's Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC) and Natural History Collections, and be made available to the greater scientific community.
Nico Franz, professor at ASU's School of Life Sciences and founding director of ASU's BioKIC, will serve as primary investigator for the $4.1 million National Science Foundation grant, which is projected to increase to $35 million over the full funding period.
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