Revitalizing Facilities for Research on Life in Extreme Environments

振兴极端环境下的生命研究设施

• 批准号: 0963548
• 负责人: Anna-Louise Reysenbach
• 金额: $ 115万
• 依托单位: Portland State University
• 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: 2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963548&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Revitalizing; Facilities; Research; Life; Extreme

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award provides funds to convert 10,745 square feet in Portland State University's (PSU) Science Building 2 (SB2) into a Center for Life in Extreme Environments (CLEE). The renovations of Science Building 2 (SB2) at PSU will enable a core group of CLEE researchers to conduct research on the ecological and physiological effects of extremes in temperature and pH and extremes in nutrient, water and oxygen availability that spans all domains of life. Additionally, the space for the animal care facility for aquatic organisms will be doubled to facilitate greater temperature control and range for rearing fish from thermally extreme environments. The plan will provide central laboratory support space, including flexible equipment rooms, walk-in environmental control rooms and rooms dedicated to microscopy, cell culture, growing thermophiles and clean-room research. The linear equipment room will house autoclaves, glass wash facilities, and shared equipment and PSU's thermophile and Oregon's Collection of Methanogens (OCM) culture collections. In addition, the space will permit relocation of the microarray facility in this area. By substantially improving the quality of research space available to CLEE faculty, PSU will continue to lead international efforts to take an integrative approach to investigating life in extreme environments across all three domains of life. The improvements in the research facility will permit research involving a more holistic understanding of the potential human impacts on, and interactions with, species from environmentally sensitive habitats. The doubling of the Aquatic facility with the capacity to rear coldadapted fishes will place PSU as key center for such research. The consolidation of high temperature, high biomass growth facilities will enhance biochemical, molecular and microbial studies of thermostable molecules, thermophiles and their viruses. The renovations will also broadly impact education at PSU. The University has a long history of success in attracting and matriculating non-traditional and older students in an urban setting and it will help expand undergraduate and graduate research programs and will stimulate interdisciplinary research projects between Chemistry, Environmental Science, Biology and Geology and other institutions in the region.

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏与再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助。该奖项提供资金，将波特兰州立大学(PSU)2号科学大楼(SB2)中的10,745平方英尺改造成极端环境生命中心(CLEE)。PSU的科学大楼2(SB2)的翻新将使Clee研究人员的核心小组能够对极端温度和pH以及跨越生命所有领域的极端营养、水和氧气的生态和生理影响进行研究。此外，水生生物动物护理设施的空间将增加一倍，以便于更好地控制温度，扩大饲养极端高温环境中的鱼的范围。该计划将提供中央实验室支持空间，包括灵活的设备室、步入式环境控制室以及专门用于显微镜、细胞培养、嗜热菌生长和洁净室研究的房间。线性设备间将容纳高压锅、玻璃清洗设施和共享设备以及PSU的嗜热菌和俄勒冈州的甲烷菌集合(OCM)。此外，该空间将允许该地区的微阵列设施搬迁。通过大幅提高Clee教员可用研究空间的质量，PSU将继续领导国际努力，采取综合方法研究极端环境中的生命，涵盖生命的所有三个领域。研究设施的改进将使研究能够更全面地了解人类对环境敏感栖息地物种的潜在影响及其相互作用。将水生设施的饲养能力增加一倍，将使PSU成为此类研究的关键中心。高温、高生物量生长设施的巩固将加强对耐热分子、嗜热菌及其病毒的生化、分子和微生物研究。这些翻修工程还将广泛影响巴黎州立大学的教育。该大学在城市环境下吸引和录取非传统和年龄较大的学生方面有着悠久的成功历史，它将有助于扩大本科生和研究生研究项目，并将促进该地区化学、环境科学、生物和地质与其他机构之间的跨学科研究项目。