MRI: Acquisition of molecular and cellular imaging instrumentation.

MRI：获取分子和细胞成像仪器。

• 批准号: 0922653
• 负责人: Robert Fairman
• 金额: $ 99.63万
• 依托单位: Haverford College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0922653&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; molecular; cellular; imaging

This award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program will be used to purchase four significant instruments to support a new core imaging facility at Haverford College, a selective liberal arts college with a diverse student body. The new instruments funded by this grant are a transmission electron microscope, a scanning electron microscope, a confocal microscope, and a fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) system. This facility will serve the research and educational missions of the Biology Department and will also be an important resource for faculty and students in the Physics and Chemistry Departments. These instruments will significantly enhance the research capabilities of the faculty, most with external funding to support their research programs. Since the focus of the Haverford Biology Department is in cell and molecular biology, access to these imaging tools will benefit research projects in areas such as biomaterials research, nanotechnology, developmental biology and embryogenesis, neurobiology, immunology, and stem cell biology. Notably, the faculty collaborate frequently in their research, bringing together skills and expertise to develop synergies that advance science in new directions and serving as role models in students' training. Students are immersed in the process of doing science, fostering their ability to think broadly and from interdisciplinary perspectives. Students will use these instruments for their course work and their senior thesis projects, and will also develop state-of-the-art skills that will be helpful in for a career path in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).

来自主要研究仪器(MRI)计划的这笔奖金将用于购买四台重要的仪器，以支持哈弗福德学院的新核心成像设施，哈弗福德学院是一所有多样化学生群体的精挑细选的文理学院。这笔赠款资助的新仪器是透射式电子显微镜、扫描电子显微镜、共聚焦显微镜和荧光激活细胞分选系统(FACS)。该设施将服务于生物系的研究和教育任务，也将是物理系和化学系教职员工和学生的重要资源。这些仪器将显著提高教师的研究能力，大多数教师都有外部资金来支持他们的研究计划。由于哈弗福德生物系的重点是细胞和分子生物学，因此获得这些成像工具将有利于生物材料研究、纳米技术、发育生物学和胚胎发生、神经生物学、免疫学和干细胞生物学等领域的研究项目。值得注意的是，教职员工在他们的研究中经常合作，将技能和专业知识结合在一起，开发协同效应，推动科学向新方向发展，并在学生培训中充当榜样。学生沉浸在做科学的过程中，培养他们从跨学科的角度进行广泛思考的能力。学生将在课程作业和高级论文项目中使用这些工具，并将发展最先进的技能，这将有助于在STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)的职业道路上。