Acquisition of Plant Growth Chambers for Teaching and Research: Enhancement of New Life Sciences Building

购置植物生长室用于教学和研究：加强新生命科学大楼

• 批准号: 0215923
• 负责人: Mark Guiltinan
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0215923&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Plant; Growth; Chambers; Teaching

Abstract: Mark Guiltinan (#0215923)A grant has been awarded to Pennsylvania State University under the direction of Dr. Mark Guiltinan to develop a Plant Growth Facility consisting of six growth chambers and a small greenhouse. The facility center will provide a physical home for the graduate programs, and an organizing role for the enhancement of Plant Sciences research, teaching and outreach programs.The objectives of the center will be to: provide state-of-the-art research facilities for a core group of resident plant scientists, including current faculty and new hires; provide collaborative space in the new building to members of the Plant Science Center; develop and enhance collaborative interactions among plant scientists and with researchersin other fields, at Penn State and elsewhere; improve the Plant Physiology and Ecological and Molecular Plant Physiology graduate education programs, and; develop outreach programs for the general public and for pre-college students.This center will support research in plant sciences for diverse studies, but will be particularly important to the growing number of plant scientists using the model plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana. The completion of the Arabidopsis genome sequence, along with major new funding programs in plant genomics at the NSF and USDA,have brought us to a new era in plant research, requiring high throughput facilities for functional analysis of genes. Penn State has made a priority effort to enhance the life sciences; enhancement of the Plant Sciences Center will help us move forward on this path, by providing necessary facilities and maximizing laboratory space in the main building. This will in turn help to attract top faculty candidates who will be concerned about availability of such facilities. The facility will provide for the first time, an interdisciplinary, inter-college facility for high quality environmental growth of plants to support the many plant scientists at Penn State. It will also serve our teaching and outreach programs, providing a facility available to all for the growth of plants.

摘要：Mark Guiltinan（＃0215923）在Mark Guiltinan博士的指导下向宾夕法尼亚州立大学授予了一笔赠款，以开发一个由六个成长室和一个小型温室组成的植物生长设施。该设施中心将为研究生课程提供物理住所，并为增强工厂科学研究，教学和外展计划的组织角色。该中心的目标将是：为包括现任教职员工和新员工在内的核心植物科学家组提供最先进的研究设施；向植物科学中心成员提供新建筑中的合作空间；在宾夕法尼亚州立大学和其他地方发展并与其他领域的研究人员之间发展并与其他领域的研究人员之间进行了协作互动；改善植物生理学以及生态和分子植物生理研究生教育计划，以及；该中心将为公众和大学前的学生开发外展计划。该中心将支持植物科学研究的多种研究，但对于使用模型植物种类的植物科学家拟南芥，对于不断增长的植物科学家尤其重要。拟南芥基因组序列的完成，以及NSF和USDA植物基因组学的主要新资金计划，使我们进入了植物研究的新时代，需要高通量的基因功能分析。宾夕法尼亚州立大学（Penn State）已经优先努力增强生命科学。植物科学中心的增强将通过提供必要的设施并最大化主楼的实验室空间来帮助我们前进。反过来，这将有助于吸引最高教师的候选人，他们将担心此类设施的可用性。该设施将首次提供，这是一个跨学科的大学间设施，用于植物的高质量环境增长，以支持宾夕法尼亚州的许多植物科学家。它还将为我们的教学和外展计划提供服务，为所有人提供植物生长的设施。