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.

该奖项是根据2009年的《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项为在波特兰州立大学（PSU）科学大楼2（SB2）转换10,745平方英尺的资金为极端环境中的生活中心（CLEE）提供了资金。 PSU的科学大楼2（SB2）的翻新将使CLEE研究人员能够对温度和pH值的极端以及养分，水和氧气可用性的极端生态和生理影响进行研究，从而跨越生命的所有领域。此外，水生生物的动物护理设施的空间将增加一倍，以促进更大的温度控制和从热极端环境中饲养鱼的范围。该计划将提供中央实验室的支撑空间，包括灵活的设备室，步入式环境控制室和专门用于显微镜，细胞培养，增长的嗜热和清洁房间研究的房间。线性设备室将容纳通压，玻璃洗涤设施以及共享设备以及PSU的嗜热剂和俄勒冈州的甲烷植物（OCM）培养物收集。此外，该空间将允许在该区域搬迁微阵列设施。通过实质上提高了CLEE教职员工可用的研究空间的质量，PSU将继续领导国际努力，采取综合方法来调查生活中所有三个领域的极端环境中的生活。研究机构的改进将允许研究对潜在的人类对环境敏感栖息地的影响和与物种的相互作用进行更全面的了解。水上工厂具有饲养冷鱼类的能力的加倍将使PSU成为此类研究的关键中心。高温，高生物量生长设施的合并将增强对热稳定分子，嗜热及其病毒的生化，分子和微生物研究。翻新工程还将广泛影响PSU的教育。该大学在城市环境中吸引和入学的非传统和年龄较大的学生的成功历史悠久，它将有助于扩大本科和研究生研究计划，并将刺激化学，环境科学，生物学和地质学和该地区其他机构之间的跨学科研究项目。