MRI: Acquisition of a FlowCam to enhance Marine Science Research and Education at the University of New England

MRI：购买 FlowCam 以加强新英格兰大学的海洋科学研究和教育

• 批准号: 1624984
• 负责人: Markus Frederich
• 金额: $ 11.85万
• 依托单位: University of New England
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624984&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; FlowCam; enhance; Marine

An award is made to the University of New England (UNE) in Biddeford, Maine, to acquire a FlowCam Imaging Particle Analysis System to strengthen instrumentation for multidisciplinary research and teaching at a primary undergraduate institution. The FlowCam system will allow multiple faculty to extend their current work to the "plankton/particulate" level, and/or start new plankton/particulate-oriented projects. The FlowCam will also be used in teaching of multiple classes in several departments, in local high schools, and will support undergraduate research projects in context of a current NSF IUSE grant. Every year more than 430 undergraduates in at least 7 courses at UNE and at least 120 high school students at 2 high schools will work on FlowCam projects. Phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus play important roles in the oceans food webs as primary producers and key food sources at the base of the food web. Including plankton/particulate-level analyses in studies on the reproduction of invasive species, fish diversity, bivalve feeding and growth rates and more will significantly increase our understanding of the respective processes and benefit several key local marine issues. Research projects will include such diverse areas as: interactions between two invasive crustacean crab species, a long-term biomonitoring study on phyto- and zooplankton, ichthyoplankton distribution and diversity in a small river plume, field investigations of the use of detritus by bivalves, plankton composition and structure in four lakes as it relates to climate change and watershed perturbations, and flow imaging technology for evaluation of elastin-like polymer coacervates.

位于缅因州比德福德的新英格兰大学（UNE）获得了一个奖项，以获得FlowCam成像粒子分析系统，以加强初级本科院校多学科研究和教学的仪器。FlowCam系统将允许多个教师将他们目前的工作扩展到“浮游生物/颗粒”水平，和/或开始新的浮游生物/颗粒导向的项目。FlowCam还将用于当地高中多个部门的多个班级的教学，并将在当前NSF IUSE资助的背景下支持本科生研究项目。每年，UNE至少7门课程的430多名本科生和2所高中的至少120名高中生将参与FlowCam项目。浮游植物、浮游动物和碎屑作为初级生产者和食物网底层的主要食物来源，在海洋食物网中发挥着重要作用。在关于入侵物种繁殖、鱼类多样性、双壳类摄食和生长率等的研究中包括浮游生物/颗粒水平的分析，将大大增加我们对各个过程的了解，并有益于若干关键的地方海洋问题。研究项目将包括以下不同领域：两种入侵甲壳类螃蟹物种之间的相互作用，一项关于浮游植物和浮游动物的长期生物监测研究，一条小河羽流中的浮游鱼类分布和多样性，实地调查双壳类利用碎屑的情况，四湖的浮游生物组成和结构，因为它与气候变化和流域扰动有关，和用于评价弹性蛋白样聚合物凝聚层的流动成像技术。

项目成果

Flow imaging microscopy as a novel tool for high-throughput evaluation of elastin-like polymer coacervates

流式成像显微镜作为类弹性蛋白聚合物凝聚层高通量评估的新工具

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216406
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: PLOS ONE
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Marvin, Laura;Paiva, Wynter;Gill, Nicole;Morales, Marissa A.;Halpern, Jeffrey Mark;Vesenka, James;Balog, Eva Rose;Zelikin, Alexander N.
• 通讯作者: Zelikin, Alexander N.