Fluorescent/Phase Contrast Microscopy for a Cellular and Aquatic Biology Program Focusing on Chesapeake Bay Ecology

针对切萨皮克湾生态学的细胞和水生生物学项目的荧光/相差显微镜

• 批准号: 8650374
• 负责人: Donald Munson
• 金额: $ 0.71万
• 依托单位: Washington College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1986
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1986-05-01 至 1988-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8650374&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fluorescent; Phase; Contrast; Microscopy; Cellular

The rapidly expanding Biology Department of Washington College is modernizing and upgrading the portions of its curriculum concerned with cellular/molecular phenomena, i.e. its courses in Genetics, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Aquatic Biology, Cell Physiology and Biochemistry, and a new course in Immunology. Much of this advance results from new capabilities conferred through the procurement of a light microscope with phase contrast and fluoresence features obtained through this award. This new instrument permits students to actually view such features and activities as membrane receptor sites and their motility, antigen-antibody specificity, and membrane transport. Since the Washington College Biology Department capitalizes upon its location on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to involve itself in studying the ecology of Chesapeake Bay, one important application of the new microscope is to facilitate investigations that distinguish heterotrophic from autotrophic protozoa in mixed, naturally occurring populations. This award is an especially timely one for Washington College, coming as it does on the heels of a $1.2 million special appropriation from the State of Maryland for upgrading the school's science facilities and for enhancing its ability to contribute to analytical studies of the Bay.

华盛顿学院迅速发展的生物系正在现代化和升级其与细胞/分子现象有关的课程部分，即遗传学、细胞生物学、微生物学、水生生物学、细胞生理学和生物化学课程，以及免疫学新课程。这一进步很大程度上是由于采购了一种具有相对比和荧光特征的光学显微镜而获得的新能力。这种新仪器允许学生实际观察膜受体位点及其运动性、抗原抗体特异性和膜运输等特征和活动。由于华盛顿大学生物系利用其位于马里兰州东海岸的地理位置来研究切萨皮克湾的生态，这种新显微镜的一个重要应用是促进对混合自然种群中异养原生动物和自养原生动物的研究。这个奖项对华盛顿学院来说是一个特别及时的奖项，因为它紧随马里兰州120万美元的特别拨款而来，用于升级学校的科学设施，提高其对海湾分析研究的贡献能力。