Welcome

Welcome Letter from the Director, Steven Williams

Welcome to the home page of the NIAID/NIH Filariasis Research Reagent Resource (FR3) Center--Molecular Resources Division. This web site is designed to provide you with information about all of the molecular resources available through the Center. In addition, we will also post announcements of relevance to molecular work being done in filariasis and links to other relevant web sites (such as OnchoNet). If you have announcements that you would like to have posted on this web site, please send them to Shelly Michalski (michalsk@uwosh.edu). In addition, we intend to post basic protocols for molecular research on filarial parasites under the "Protocols" section. If you are successful in developing a new protocol that you think would be useful to the community, you can send it to Shelly Michalski (michalsk@uwosh.edu) for posting on this section of the web site. To request materials available through the Center, please use the requisition form. To submit materials to the Center please use the submission form.

The Center will be most useful if the entire filiarial research community participates in submitting news, protocols, and scientific materials. We currently have available cDNA libraries, genomic libraries, gridded libraries, individual clones, human sera and microarrays (see Research Materials for a complete list) that can be ordered by contacting Sue Haynes, (shaynes@smith.edu) using the Requisition form available on this site. We will be adding new materials to this list as the Center develops them. The Center will be even more useful if members of the filariasis research community also submit libraries, clones, sera, etc. to the Center for distribution. This arrangement will relieve your laboratory from the time-consuming process of dealing with requests for reagents. If you have questions about the contents of this site or suggestions for improving the site, please send them to Shelly Michalski (michalsk@uwosh.edu). Submit suggestions regarding the functioning of the Center and ideas about additional resources you would like to see offered through the Center directly to me at genome@smith.edu.

Best wishes and good luck with all of your research endeavors! Steve