Instrumentation for a Tissue Culture/Light Microscopy Instructional Core Facility

在过去的六年里，查尔斯顿学院生物系加强了细胞和分子生物学领域的教学质量。这一举措包括购置现代化设备、聘用新教员和扩大课程设置。为了使我们的细胞和分子生物学课程现代化，本提案的重点是对显微镜和组织培养设备的要求，这些设备将用于提高整个细胞水平的实验室教学质量。该设备将用于一些新的或重组的课程，包括分子生物学，细胞生物学，发育生物学和植物生理学。本提案中所要求的培养箱和无菌转移罩使培养多种植物和动物细胞和组织成为可能。光显微镜、视频和图像分析设备将用于研究细胞增殖、迁移和粘附，以及对培养细胞和组织进行染色体分析和肿瘤诱导研究。采用这些技术的实验室以研究为导向，旨在帮助学生培养批判性思维和数据分析技能，并让学生亲身体验高质量的研究设备。

Over the past six years, the Biology Department at the College of Charleston has strengthened the quality of instruction in the area of Cellular and Molecular Biology. This initiative has included the procurement of modern equipment, the hiring of new faculty, and an expansion of course offerings. Consistent with this ongoing effort to modernize our Cell and Molecular Biology curriculum, this proposal focuses on a request for microscopic and tissue culture equipment which would be used to enhance the quality of laboratory instruction at the whole cell level. This equipment will be used in several new or restructured courses including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology and Plant Physiology. The incubators and sterile transfer hoods requested in this proposal, make possible the culture of a wide variety of plant and animal cells and tissues. The light microscopic, video, and image analysis equipment will be used to investigate cell proliferation, migration, and adhesion, as well as to perform chromosomal analysis, and tumor induction studies on cultured cells and tissues. The laboratories incorporating these techniques are research-oriented, and are designed to help students develop critical thinking and data analysis skills, as well as to give students hands on experience with research quality equipment.