FSML: Improvements at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory

夏威夷大学获得拨款，为凯瓦洛海洋实验室提供基本仪器，该实验室将允许并增强在其细胞、发育、进化和环境生物学的研究和培训计划中使用分子技术的能力。这些仪器包括冷藏台式离心机、能够量化少量核酸的分光光度计、能够检测西方、北方和南方印迹所需化学发光信号的数字凝胶记录系统、石英吸管拉出器、弹道基因枪、微孔板读取器和能够切割半薄塑料切片的切片机。海洋实验室提供了前所未有的途径，获得了大多数研究型大学所没有的各种研究机会。在火奴鲁鲁市中心附近唯一毗邻活珊瑚礁的凯瓦洛海洋实验室，NSF资助的研究人员和他们的受训人员使用现代细胞和分子方法研究了各种基本的生物现象，利用了各种海洋生物，包括软体动物、环节动物、鳄鱼扁虫、线虫、多层扁虫、管藻、甲壳类动物、毛类动物、裸体动物、胎盘动物、网囊动物、海葵和当地的珊瑚。这些系统中的每一个都有自己独特的一组处理问题、光学特性和学习机会。凯瓦洛海洋实验室的研究涵盖了人体计划多样性的进化、生活史进化、再生，以及从共生到生物膜和环境应激源对发育中的胚胎和幼虫的影响的研究。这些仪器将促进凯瓦洛海洋实验室常驻科学家、他们的不同本科生、研究生和博士后研究员、访问科学家以及面向未被充分代表的太平洋岛民学生和高中教师的培训方案对当地夏威夷动物的研究。有关凯瓦洛海洋实验室的更多信息，请访问网站：http://www.kewalo.hawaii.edu/.。

The University of Hawaii is awarded a grant to provide basic instrumentation to the Kewalo Marine Laboratory that will allow and enhance the ability to use molecular techniques in its research and training programs in cellular, developmental, evolutionary, and environmental biology. The instruments include a refrigerated table top centrifuge, a spectrophotometer capable of quantifying small volumes of nucleic acid, a digital gel documentation system capable of detecting chemiluminesence signals required for Western, Northern and Southern blotting, a quartz pipette puller, a ballistic gene gun, a microplate reader, and a microtome capable of cutting semi-thin plastic sections. Marine laboratories provide unprecedented access to a diverse array of research opportunities unavailable at most research universities. At the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, uniquely situated adjacent to living coral reefs near downtown Honolulu, NSF-funded researchers and their trainees use modern cellular and molecular approaches to investigate a wide variety of basic biological phenomena utilizing a full range of marine organisms, including mollusks, annelids, acoel flatworms, nemerteans, polyclad flatworms, sipunculids, crustaceans, chaetognaths, kinorhynchs, placozoans, ctenophores, sea anemones and local scleractinian corals. Each of these systems has its own unique set of handling issues, optical properties, and learning opportunities. Research at the Kewalo Marine Lab runs the gamut of studies on the evolution of body plan diversity, life history evolution, regeneration, and from symbiosis to investigations of the effects of biofilms and environmental stressors on developing embryos and larvae. The instruments will facilitate the research on local Hawaiian fauna by resident scientists at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, their diverse undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, visiting scientists, and training programs that reach out to under-represented Pacific Islander students and high school teachers. Further information about Kewalo Marine Laboratory may be found at http://www.kewalo.hawaii.edu/.