CSBR: Living Stocks, Operation of a Culture Collection of Algae

CSBR：活畜、藻类培养物保藏库的运营

• 批准号: 2015674
• 负责人: David Nobles
• 金额: $ 80.33万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2015674&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Living; Stocks; Operation; Culture

The Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin (UTEX) is one of only a handful of curated, public, biodiversity collections of living algae. UTEX is a repository and distribution center for algal biodiversity. The UTEX Collection is of the most genetically diverse assemblages of organisms available to the public and many of the algae UTEX maintains are unique and irreplaceable. Every year UTEX distributes thousands of living algal cultures, at modest cost, to scientists, educators, and students throughout the U.S. and the world. The great interest in microscopic algae as sources of transportation fuel, human food, animal feed, pharmaceuticals, and many other uses makes UTEX algae and services essential resources for hundreds of research projects. UTEX provides hands-on workshops on managing algal cultures, an informative interactive web site, species identification services, chemical composition analysis, and extensive correspondence with students engaged in algal research. UTEX personnel give presentations at public schools, conduct tours of UTEX facilities, assist teachers and students in conducting high school science projects, and provide presentations on the scientific importance of algae to hundreds of children every year at local open house events.UTEX currently maintains more than 3,000 unique living algal strains representing all major taxa, including over 450 type species. The UTEX mission is to promote, support, and enable the use of algae for research, education, and practical applications. In order to fulfill its mission, UTEX provides living algae to a user community at modest cost; serves as a permanent public repository of newly discovered and recently described algal species of potential value representing a broad range of genetic, morphological and biochemical diversity; acts as a source of information regarding algae to practicing scientists, other professionals, and the interested public; promotes and supports local science teaching and hands-on scientific activities by school children; and provides practical training services, support services, and supplies that facilitate culturing of algae at other sites. UTEX provides living algae starter cultures, bulk cultures, growth media, photobioreactors, photometers, genomic DNA and digital images. Services include identification of algae by morphological and DNA-sequence methods, physiological and biochemical characterization of algae, and cryogenetic storage of proprietary strains. UTEX maintains active research on cryopreservation technology, biochemical characterization, genomic sequencing, and taxonomic identification of accessioned strains. Algae-based research within the local institution is actively supported through the provision of cultures and by consultation with UTEX staff. Every year hundreds of published research articles reference the use of UTEX strains, many of which also recognize NSF support. In addition, many UTEX strains are used in research leading to the development of microalgae-based technologies for the production of biofuels and many other products. A comprehensive web site (www.utex.org) facilitates a secure means for ordering goods and services, provides links to resources elsewhere pertaining to algae, and includes diverse algae-related information.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校 (UTEX) 的藻类培养物保藏中心是少数几个精心策划的、公共的、生物多样性活藻类保藏中心之一。 UTEX 是藻类生物多样性的储存库和分配中心。 UTEX 收藏品是向公众提供的遗传多样性最丰富的生物体组合，UTEX 保存的许多藻类都是独特且不可替代的。每年，UTEX 以低廉的成本向美国和世界各地的科学家、教育工作者和学生分发数千种活藻类培养物。人们对微型藻类作为运输燃料、人类食品、动物饲料、药品和许多其他用途的来源的极大兴趣，使得 UTEX 藻类和服务成为数百个研究项目的重要资源。 UTEX 提供管理藻类培养的实践研讨会、信息丰富的互动网站、物种鉴定服务、化学成分分析以及与从事藻类研究的学生的广泛通信。 UTEX 工作人员在公立学校进行演讲、参观 UTEX 设施、协助教师和学生开展高中科学项目，并每年在当地开放日活动中向数百名儿童介绍藻类的科学重要性。UTEX 目前保存着 3,000 多种独特的活藻菌株，代表所有主要分类单元，包括 450 多种类型物种。 UTEX 的使命是促进、支持和实现藻类的研究、教育和实际应用。为了履行其使命，UTEX 以适度的成本向用户社区提供活藻类；作为新发现和最近描述的具有潜在价值的藻类物种的永久公共存储库，代表了广泛的遗传、形态和生化多样性；作为执业科学家、其他专业人士和感兴趣的公众有关藻类的信息来源；促进和支持当地学童的科学教学和实践科学活动；并提供实用培训服务、支持服务和用品，以促进其他地点的藻类培养。 UTEX 提供活藻类起始培养物、散装培养物、生长培养基、光生物反应器、光度计、基因组 DNA 和数字图像。 服务包括通过形态学和 DNA 序列方法鉴定藻类、藻类的生理和生化特征以及专有菌株的低温储存。 UTEX 在冷冻保存技术、生化表征、基因组测序和加入菌株的分类学鉴定方面保持着积极的研究。通过提供培养物和与 UTEX 工作人员协商，积极支持当地机构内基于藻类的研究。每年都有数百篇发表的研究文章提到 UTEX 菌株的使用，其中许多也得到了 NSF 的支持。此外，许多 UTEX 菌株用于研究，从而开发基于微藻的技术，用于生产生物燃料和许多其他产品。综合网站 (www.utex.org) 促进了订购商品和服务的安全方式，提供了与藻类相关的其他资源的链接，并包括各种藻类相关信息。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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• 通讯作者: McGowen, John

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• 发表时间: 2023-03
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• 影响因子: 7.7
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• 发表时间: 2024-02-01
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• 通讯作者: Manning，Schonna R.