MRI: Acquisition of a quantitative real-time gene expression monitoring system for undergraduate research and teaching at Pace University 2016

佩斯大学被授予获得用于本科生研究和教学的定量实时基因表达监测系统的奖项。这一设备将支持本科生参与生物学研究，重点是妇女和代表性不足的少数群体。利用这种设备的研究培训将允许学生在尚未完全探索的领域中设计、执行和分析生物研究的前沿研究项目。此外，这种设备将允许开发和测试灵活的遗传学和分子生物学课程，该课程被证明可以提高学生的学习能力，任何机构都可以实施，以促进学生参与发现驱动的研究项目。使用这种设备的学生和教职员工将回答广泛领域的研究问题，包括细胞如何分裂，鱼类和细菌如何对压力做出反应，病毒如何在宿主中生存，以及有机体如何对饮食变化做出反应。这些问题的答案将增加学生对生态学、进化论、癌症生物学、细胞生物学、发育生物学、免疫学和微生物学的基本方面的理解。此外，该设备将支持原创研究，以进一步了解基因是如何调节的，从而提供对各种生物系统的洞察。

An award is made to Pace University to acquire a quantitative real-time gene expression monitoring system for use in undergraduate research and teaching. This equipment will support the participation of undergraduate students, with a focus on women and underrepresented minorities, in biological research. Research training utilizing this equipment will allow students to design, execute, and analyze research projects at the cutting edge of biological research in areas that have not yet been fully explored. Additionally, this equipment will allow for the development and testing of a flexible genetics and molecular biology curriculum that is proven to enhance student learning and can be implemented by any institution to facilitate student engagement in discovery-driven research projects.The students and faculty using this equipment will be answering research questions in a broad range of areas, including how cells divide, how fish and bacteria responds to stress, how viruses survive in the host, and how an organism responds to changes in diet. The answers to these questions will increase students' understanding of basic aspects of ecology, evolution, cancer biology, cell biology, developmental biology, immunology, and microbiology. Moreover, this equipment will support original research to further the understanding of how genes are regulated, thereby providing insight into a variety of biological systems.