MRI: Acquisition of Natural Treatment Systems Research Facility

0320721BurkenPIs代表UMR校园内的所有学术学校和大学，确保这种工具将在未来几十年里在跨学科研究中发挥重要作用，促进生产力、资金和知识的广泛传播。新仪器具有压倒一切重要性的具体研究课题包括：1)重金属在自然系统和人工湿地中的固定；2)植物修复系统中VOCs的吸收和挥发；3)重金属在植物中的传输；4)基因工程根生细菌对氯化物的降解；GEM-植物修复；以及5)生物修复中的极端细菌。许多其他环境性质的研究项目将得到加强，尽管没有分享自然系统的重点。UMR校园内的教职员工和学生将被允许广泛使用仪器。生物科学的教职员工和学生将观察到最大的影响，因为目前没有可用的温室设施，尽管许多人教授植物学/植物生理学课程并进行与植物相关的研究。此外，来自许多部门的学生研究人员将学习使用最先进的设备。这些学生和被先进设施吸引的新学生将接受培训，调查尚未想象的环境问题。

0320721BurkenThe PIs represent all academic schools and colleges on the UMR campus, assuring that this instrumentation will be prominent in interdisciplinary research for decades, fostering productivity, funding, and knowledge to be widely disseminated. Specific research topics to which the new instrumentation is of overriding importance include: 1) Heavy metals sequestration in natural systems and constructed wetlands, 2) Uptake and volatilization of VOCs in phytoremediation systems, 3) Heavy metals transport in plants, 4) Degradation of chlorinated compounds by genetically engineered-root colonizing bacteria, .GEM-Phytoremediation., and 5) Extremophile bacteria in bioremediation. Many other research projects of environmental nature will be enhanced, though not sharing the natural systems focus. Broad access of instrumentation will be granted to faculty members and students across the UMR campus. Biological Sciences faculty and students will observe the greatest impact, as there are no greenhouse facilities available currently, even though many teach botany/plant physiology courses and perform plant-associated research. Additionally, student researchers from many departments will learn to utilize the state of the art equipment. These students and new ones attracted with advanced facilities will be trained to investigate environmental problems not yet imagined.