MRI/RUI: Acquisition of Confocal Microscopy for Life Science Research and Cal State Fullerton

在罗伯特·科赫博士的指导下，加州州立大学富勒顿分校获得了一笔赠款，用于将共焦显微镜应用于加州州立大学富勒顿生物科学系和化学与生物化学系生命科学系的研究和研究培训活动。此次收购将把共聚焦扫描激光显微镜的基础研究工具带到加州州立大学富勒顿分校的教职员工和学生对细胞功能的研究中，以保持其对研究和研究培训的认真承诺。共焦显微镜实验室的建立将推动教师和他们的学生在以下领域的合作研究：细胞生物学与海鞘精子细胞信号和细胞骨架重组的研究，神经生物学与软体动物神经元中烟碱型乙酰胆碱受体多样性的研究，分子微生物学与细菌抗药性机制的研究，发育生物学与线虫肌肉发育的研究，生物化学与肠道和乳腺中铜和铁的运输的研究，衰老生物学与线虫超氧化物歧化酶表达的研究，比较生理学与鱼类的肌肉纤维发育和内温的研究，以及生理生态学与食肉和草食性鱼类肠道结构的研究。通过这笔拨款实现的新研究项目将使所有学生受益，但由于加州州立大学富勒顿是一所为拉美裔学生服务的机构，它将对少数族裔学生研究培训计划产生特别重要的影响，如少数族裔学生就业机会计划、少数族裔学生发展倡议、少数族裔国际研究旅行、获得博士学位的桥梁、麦克奈尔学者或环境生物学本科生导师计划，在这些计划中，每年将有多达40名少数族裔学生获得新的仪器。这笔助学金每年有可能影响600多名在两个相关系参加本科和硕士课程的学生。因此，共焦显微镜实验室的建立将对加州州立大学富勒顿分校的研究和研究培训活动以及整个生命科学教育经验产生巨大影响。

A grant has been awarded to California State University, Fullerton under the direction of Dr. Robert Koch to bring confocal microscopy to the research and research training activities of the life sciences faculty in the Departments of Biological Science and Chemistry & Biochemistry at Cal State Fullerton. This acquisition will bring the fundamental research tool of confocal scanning laser microscopy to the study of cell function by the faculty and students at Cal State Fullerton in keeping with its serious commitment to research and research training. The establishment of the Confocal Microscopy Laboratory will advance the collaborative research of faculty with their students in fields like cell biology with the study of cell signaling and cytoskeletal reorganization in ascidian sperm cells, neurobiology with the study of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor diversity in molluscan neurons, molecular microbiology with the study of mechanisms for bacterial resistance to antibiotics, developmental biology with the study of muscle development in nematodes, biochemistry with the study copper and iron transport in intestine and mammary glands, biology of aging with the study of superoxide dismutase expression in nematodes, comparative physiology with the study of muscle fiber development and endothermy in fishes, and physiological ecology with the study of gut structure in carnivorous and herbivorous fishes. The new research programs made possible by this grant will benefit all students, but, because Cal State Fullerton is a Hispanic serving institution, it will have a particularly important impact on minority student research training programs like Minority Access to Research Careers, Initiative for Minority Student Development, Minority International Research Travel, Bridges-to-the-Doctorate, McNair Scholars, or Undergraduate Mentorship in Environmental Biology where as many as forty minority students per year will have access to the new instrumentation. This grant has the potential to impact more than 600 students per year who go through undergraduate and masters level curricula in the two departments involved. Thus, the establishment of the Confocal Microscopy Laboratory will have a tremendous influence on research and research training activities as well as on the overall educational experience in the life sciences at Cal State Fullerton.