Acquisition of Confocal Microscope

这个奖项是为了奖励获得用于神经科学研究的共聚焦显微镜。计划使用这种显微镜进行两个研究项目。第一个项目是开发一种成像大脑突触抑制的新方法，以及一种可视化小脑皮层颗粒层抑制回路功能结构的新方法。第二个项目是研究在各种细胞类型中发现的转录因子的定位和调节。这台显微镜将使有才华的本科生成为科学学者社区的早期和积极参与者。这台显微镜将加强这个超过一半的生物专业学生为女性的院系的本科生物研究。这台显微镜也将被安置在一个种族多样化的地区；少数民族占爱荷华州风暴湖社区的三分之一，占公立学校系统的51%。外展目标是将来自当地和区域社区的未被充分代表的少数民族学生及其教师带入校园并进入科学领域。

This award is for the acquisition of a confocal microscope for neuroscience research. Two research projects using this microscope are planned. The first project is to develop a new method of imaging synaptic inhibition in the brain and a new way of visualizing the functional architecture of inhibitory circuitry in the granule layer of the cerebellar cortex. The second project is to investigate the localization and modulation of a transcription factor found in a variety of cell types. This microscope will allow talented undergraduate students to become early and active participants in the community of scientific scholars. The microscope will enhance undergraduate biology research in a department where more than half of the biology majors are female. This microscope will also be situated in an ethnically diverse region; ethnic minorities make up one-third of the Storm Lake, Iowa community and 51% of the public school system. An outreach goal is to bring underrepresented minority students and their teachers from the local and regional community onto campus and into science.