MRI: Acquisition of MoFlo XDP FACS Sorter

得克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校获得了一台荧光激活细胞分类器(FACS)，这是一种促进该地区教育和研究的共享仪器。FACS仪器将支持自然科学中多个学科的各种研究和教学应用。FACS仪器将用于鉴定、分离和纯化多种细胞类型和细胞成分。这些FACS纯化的样本将进一步推动至少23名教师的研究计划，他们试图了解植物和动物的发育、微生物的传染性、环境微生物的新陈代谢以及免疫和癌细胞功能和发展背后的机制、疾病进展机制、生态群落和亚细胞成分，最终使我们地区和整个公众受益。该仪器将通过纳入科学课程和新课程开发，为下一代科学家提供使用最先进的FACS仪器的途径。使用FACS的实验将在本科教学实验室中使用，每年为细胞生物学、微生物学和分子遗传学领域的约400名学生带来这项先进技术。还将向研究生介绍FACS技术，以便纳入他们的研究项目。将FACS仪器放置在细胞学、筛查和成像核心设施中，将有助于管理多个教职员工和学生的使用。细胞分选能力将促进STEM学科的学生和研究人员的招聘、癌症发展保留、合作和培训，并将这项尖端技术引入该地区。

An award is made to The University of Texas at El Paso to acquire a Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACS), a shared instrument to facilitate education and research in the region. The FACS instrument will support a diverse range of research and teaching applications across multiple disciplines in the natural sciences. The FACS instrument will be used to identify, isolate and purify multiple cell types and cell components. These FACS-purified samples will further the research programs of at least 23 faculty that seek to understand plant and animal development, microbial infectivity, environmental microbial metabolism as well as the mechanisms behind immune and cancer cell function and development, mechanisms of disease progression, ecological communities, and subcellular components ultimately benefiting our region and the public in general. This instrument will provide access to state-of-the-art FACS instrumentation to the next generation of scientists through incorporation into science curriculum and new course development. Experiments using FACS will be employed in undergraduate teaching laboratories, bringing this advanced technology to ~400 students annually in the fields of cell biology, microbiology and molecular genetics. FACS techniques will also be introduced to graduate students for incorporation into their research projects. Placement of the FACS instrument in the Cytometry, Screening and Imaging Core Facility will facilitate management of use by multiple faculty and students. Cell sorting capabilities will facilitate recruitment, cancer development retention, collaboration, and training of both students and research faculty in the STEM disciplines and introduce this sophisticated technology to the region.