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，用于开发一个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项目提供一个物理家园，并为加强植物科学研究、教学和推广项目提供组织作用。该中心的目标将是：为常驻植物科学家的核心小组提供最先进的研究设施，包括现有的教职员工和新员工；在新建筑中为植物科学中心的成员提供协作空间；在宾夕法尼亚州立大学和其他地方，发展和加强植物科学家之间以及与其他领域的研究人员之间的合作互动；完善植物生理学和生态与分子植物生理学研究生教育项目；为普通大众和大学预科学生制定拓展计划。该中心将支持植物科学的各种研究，但对越来越多的植物科学家使用模式植物物种拟南芥（Arabidopsis thaliana）尤其重要。拟南芥基因组序列的完成，以及美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国农业部（USDA）在植物基因组学方面的主要新资助项目，将我们带入了植物研究的新时代，这需要高通量的设备来进行基因的功能分析。宾夕法尼亚州立大学在加强生命科学方面做出了优先努力；植物科学中心的增强将帮助我们在这条道路上前进，通过提供必要的设施和最大化主楼的实验室空间。这反过来将有助于吸引那些关心此类设施可用性的顶尖教员候选人。该设施将首次提供一个跨学科、跨学院的设施，用于高质量的植物环境生长，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项目，为所有人提供植物生长的设施。

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.