Renovation of the Purchase College Molecular and Cellular Biology Research Suite

采购学院分子与细胞生物学研究室改造

• 批准号: 0963031
• 负责人: James Daly
• 金额: $ 37.85万
• 依托单位: SUNY College at Purchase
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963031&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Renovation; Purchase; College; Molecular; Cellular

AbstractThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funds are provided to renovate the Molecular and Cell Biology research facility Purchase College, State University of New York. Established in 1967, Purchase College is a four-year undergraduate institution with a record of research, undergraduate student research training, and receipt of federal grants to fund these efforts dating back to the mid-1970s. The lab facility is used for faculty research and undergraduate research training. All undergraduate students are required to carry out an eight-credit capstone experience involving original research. Many students also do summer research in the College's labs, and/or take independent research courses during the academic year. The funds will permit: (1) Redesigning part of the Microscopy room by moving some nonstructural walls, allowing for more efficient student research training in the use of Electron Microscopes. (2) Reconfiguring the preparatory room: half of it will become a facility for the analysis of digital microscopy images, DNA sequence data and electrophoretic gel data. The other half will remain a preparatory area. (3) The Molecular/Cell Biology area will contain a new bench configuration, with numerous research stations and areas to properly contain research equipment. All of the benches will be wired for networked computer workstations. The renovations will support ongoing fundamental research on macrophages, thermophilic bacteria, marine invertebrate cellular defenses and environmental responses, and cellular processes. The renovations will increase the research efficiency and productivity. The renovation will enhance already productive collaborative student/faculty research, as well as continue the undergraduate research training being conducted by Purchase College. It will have a positive impact on the local community colleges that send their students to Purchase College for 5 weeks of intensive, independent research in Molecular and Cellular Biology. The renovation will enable Purchase College's Biology faculty to continue what has become a 30-year tradition of a research-based curriculum for undergraduate students.

摘要该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。资金用于翻新纽约州立大学购买学院的分子和细胞生物学研究设施。购买学院成立于1967年，是一个四年制的本科院校，具有研究记录，本科生研究培训，并收到联邦赠款，以资助这些努力可以追溯到20世纪70年代中期。实验室设施用于教师研究和本科生研究培训。所有本科生都必须进行涉及原创性研究的八学分顶点体验。许多学生还在学院的实验室做暑期研究，和/或在学年期间参加独立的研究课程。这些资金将用于：（1）通过移动一些非结构性墙壁重新设计显微镜室的一部分，使学生在使用电子显微镜方面的研究培训更加有效。(2)重新配置准备室：其中一半将成为分析数字显微镜图像、DNA序列数据和电泳凝胶数据的设施。另一半仍将是筹备区。(3)分子/细胞生物学区域将包含一个新的工作台配置，有许多研究站和区域，以适当地容纳研究设备。所有的工作台都将连接网络计算机工作站。翻修将支持正在进行的巨噬细胞，嗜热细菌，海洋无脊椎动物细胞防御和环境反应以及细胞过程的基础研究。 这些改造将提高研究效率和生产力。翻新将加强已经富有成效的合作学生/教师的研究，以及继续由采购学院进行本科研究培训。它将对当地社区学院产生积极影响，这些学院将学生送到采购学院进行为期5周的分子和细胞生物学密集，独立的研究。 这次翻新将使采购学院的生物学教师继续什么已经成为一个30年的传统，以研究为基础的课程，为本科生。