Upgrade Laboratories Facilities at UPR-Rio Piedras

Rio Piedras RISE计划的总体目标是通过提高研究生和本科理科学生的学术和研究准备，提高生物医学研究工作的数量和质量，发展相关教师的研究能力，并培养支持性的制度环境。 此补充申请要求为所有完成学士学位的学生所需课程的教学实验室中使用的仪器提供资金。生物学或化学学位。 所有RISE本科研究学员都必须参加这些课程，此应用程序解决了他们的学术准备的增强，但他们将获得的技术也将影响他们的研究能力。 遗传学，分子生物技术和分子与细胞生物学所需的仪器将有助于提高每年220多名本科生的实验室经验的质量。 这些措施包括：1）超低温冷冻箱，2）凝胶记录系统，3）专门用于培养哺乳动物细胞系的培养箱，以及4）三个UV/维斯光度计。 有机，仪器和物理化学所需的仪器也将每年参加220多名本科生的实验室教学。 这里要求的设备包括：1）三个紫外-可见光 分光光度计系统，2）一台气相色谱-质谱仪（该仪器每年也将为15-20名研究生提供服务），3）两台高效液相色谱仪。 所要求的仪器将替换旧设备，或将首次在这些实验室提供。 希望这些实验室的加强将导致未来的研究生谁将更好地准备完成他们的博士学位在生物医学相关的科学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the Rio Piedras RISE Program is to increase the number and quality of biomedical research efforts by enhancing the academic and research preparation of graduate and undergraduate science students, developing the research capabilities of the involved faculty and fostering a supportive institutional environment. This supplemental application is requesting funding for instrumentation utilized in the teaching laboratories of courses required for all students completing B.S. degrees in either Biology or Chemistry. All RISE undergraduate research trainees have to take these courses and this application addresses enhancement of their academic preparation, however the techniques they will acquire will also impact their capability in research. The instruments requested for the Genetics, Molecular Biotechnology and Molecular and Cellular Biology will serve to improve the quality of the laboratory experiences of over 220 undergraduates each year. These will include: 1) an ultra low temperature freezer, 2) a gel documentation system, 3) an incubator to be dedicated solely to the culture of mammalian cell lines, and 4) three UV/Vis spectrophotometers. The instruments requested for the Organic, Instrumental and Physical Chemistry will also attend to the laboratory instruction of over 220 undergraduates each year. The equipment requested here includes: 1) three UV-Vis Spectrophotometer systems, 2) One Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (this instrument will also serve 15-20 graduate students per year), and 3) Two High Performance Liquid Chromatographs. The instrumentation requested will either replace old equipment or will be available for the first time in these laboratories. It is hoped that enhancement of these laboratories will result in future graduate students who will be better prepared to complete their doctorates in biomedically relevant science.