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

摘要：Mark Guiltinan（#0215923）在Mark Guiltinan博士的指导下，宾夕法尼亚州立大学获得了一笔赠款，用于开发由六个生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一个物理的家，并为加强植物科学研究，教学和推广计划的组织作用。该中心的目标将是：为核心的驻地植物科学家，包括现有的教师和新员工提供最先进的研究设施;在新的建筑中为植物科学中心的成员提供合作空间;发展和加强植物科学家之间的合作互动，并与其他领域的研究人员，在宾夕法尼亚州立大学和其他地方;改善植物生理学和生态学和分子植物生理学研究生教育计划，以及;为公众和大学预科生开发外展项目。该中心将支持植物科学研究的多样化研究，但对于越来越多的使用模式植物物种拟南芥的植物科学家来说，这一点尤为重要。拟南芥基因组测序的完成，沿着美国国家科学基金会和美国农业部在植物基因组学方面的重大新的资助计划，已经把我们带到了植物研究的新时代，需要高通量的设施来进行基因的功能分析。宾州州立大学已经做出了优先努力，以提高生命科学;植物科学中心的增强将有助于我们在这条道路上前进，通过提供必要的设施和最大限度地利用主楼的实验室空间。这反过来将有助于吸引那些关心这些设施可用性的顶尖教师候选人。该设施将首次提供一个跨学科的跨学院设施，用于植物的高质量环境生长，以支持宾夕法尼亚州立大学的许多植物科学家。它还将服务于我们的教学和推广计划，为所有植物的生长提供设施。

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.