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

授予格林内尔学院一个奖项，以支持生物学研究和教育，并为不同的生理学研究提供重要的研究工具。这台名为Li-6400XT的仪器将立即对教师及其高级本科生的积极研究产生影响，它将很好地帮助几门课程的生物学生通过研究学习，这是最有效的科学教育方式。格林内尔学院致力于为所有学生提供高质量的科学教育和研究培训，包括那些在科学领域传统上代表性不足的学生。该仪器将支持Grinnell的承诺，从国家认可的Grinnell科学项目的新生实验室体验开始，并贯穿于我们生物课程的每个级别。这一研究仪器将丰富学生的学习，促进真实的研究体验，产生高质量的结果。作为可用于光合作用(即二氧化碳吸收)和呼吸作用(即二氧化碳输出)实时分析的最先进技术，Li-6400XT将立即用于植物生理学、植物生态学、真菌生物学和生物地球化学的研究项目。该仪器轻便、灵活，允许控制光、温和湿度，可以在从原核生物和真菌到植物、动物和土壤的各种生命系统和环境中进行测量，以及从实验室到偏远的野外地点。Li-6400XT的多重功能将为研究什么控制因素提供新的手段：(1)植物对温度胁迫的适应；(2)植物对干旱的适应；(3)原核生物和旱地真菌的分解；以及(4)河流泛滥平原的碳循环是如何运作的。

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.