MRI: Acquisition of COPAS Instrumentation for Research and Teaching Enhancement in Kansas Universities

这个奖项是为了获得一种复杂的物体分选器，用于分选小的整个生物体或珠子。它将被堪萨斯州和邻近地区研究秀丽隐杆线虫的研究人员使用，秀丽隐杆线虫是一种通常用于遗传学、发育生物学和其他领域的各种研究的生物。该仪器将提高用户实验室研究成果的数量和质量。例如，它将允许用户识别和分离大量动物种群中的稀有个体或突变体。从大规模基因筛选中更快速、更容易地产生额外突变或等位基因的能力，将有助于研究生物用于发育和环境保护的途径和机制。这种分类器操作起来相对简单，可以让来自研究人员所在大学和少数民族大学的本科生参与到这项研究中来，增加他们对科学的兴趣和兴奋。

This award is for the acquisition of a complex object sorter for sorting small whole organisms or beads. It will be used by researchers in Kansas and neighboring regions who study Caenorhabditis elegans, an organism commonly used in diverse studies in genetics, developmental biology, and other fields. This instrument will improve both the quantity and quality of the research output from the laboratories of the users. For example, it will allow the users to identify and isolate rare individuals or mutants within large populations of animals. The ability to more rapidly and easily produce additional mutations or alleles from large-scale genetic screens will be useful for investigations of pathways and mechanisms used by the organisms for development and environmental protection.This sorter is relatively simple to operate, allowing undergraduates from the investigators' university and from a minority-serving university to be involved in this research, and increasing their interest and excitement about science.