MRI: Acquistition of an Integrated Gas Exchange and Fluorescence Instrument for Multidisciplinary Physiological Research

格林内尔学院获得了一个奖项，以支持生物学研究和教育，为生理学的各种研究提供主要的研究工具。该仪器，LI-6400 XT，将对教师和他们的高年级本科生的积极研究产生直接影响，它很好地帮助生物学学生在几门课程中通过研究学习，这是最有效的科学教育。Grinnell College致力于为所有学生提供高质量的科学教育和研究培训，包括那些传统上在科学领域代表性不足的学生。该仪器将支持Grinnell的承诺，从国家认可的Grinnell科学项目的学生实验室经验开始，并通过我们的生物课程的每一个层次编织。该研究仪器将丰富学生的学习，促进产生高质量成果的真实研究经验。代表了可用于光合作用实时分析的最先进技术（即，二氧化碳吸收）和呼吸（即，LI-6400 XT将立即用于植物生理学、植物生态学、真菌生物学和土壤地球化学的研究项目。便携、灵活，并允许控制光、温度和湿度，该仪器能够在广泛的生命系统和环境中进行测量，从原核生物和真菌到植物、动物和土壤;从实验室到偏远的现场。LI-6400 XT的多重功能将为研究以下重要问题提供新的手段：（1）植物对温度胁迫的适应;（2）植物对干旱的适应;（3）旱地原核生物和真菌的分解;以及（4）河流洪泛区的碳循环如何运作。

An award is made to Grinnell College to support biology research and education with a major research instrument for diverse studies of physiology. The instrument, the LI-6400XT, will have an immediate impact on active research by faculty and their advanced undergraduate students, and it well help biology students in several courses learn by research, the most effective kind of science education. Grinnell College has a deep commitment to providing quality science education and research training to all students, including those traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. This instrument will support Grinnell's commitment, beginning with the incoming-student lab experiences of the nationally recognized Grinnell Science Project, and weaving through every level of our biology curriculum. This research instrument will enrich student learning, facilitating authentic research experiences that generate high-quality outcomes.Representing the foremost technology available for real-time analysis of photosynthesis (i.e., carbon dioxide uptake) and respiration (i.e., carbon dioxide output), the LI-6400XT will find immediate use in research projects in plant physiology, plant ecology, fungal biology, and biogeochemistry. Portable, flexible, and allowing control of light, temperature, and humidity, the instrument enables measurements in a wide range of living systems and settings, from prokaryotes and fungi, to plants, animals, and soils; and from laboratories to remote field sites. The multiple functions of the LI-6400XT will provide new means to investigate significant questions about what controls: (1) plant acclimation to temperature stress; (2) plant adaptation to drought; (3) decomposition by prokaryotes and fungi in drylands; and (4) how the carbon cycle operates in river floodplains.