A large incubator-shaker to support research in plant biology

培养摇床是微生物学和分子生物学研究实验室的重要组成部分。因此，在这些领域受过训练的高度合格的人员经常需要这种设备，这些人员是在蒙特卡罗大学生物科学学院附属的生物研究所（生物研究所）受训的。我们研究所目前有一台大型摇床，已经使用了18年，已经变得不可靠，维护成本也很高。该设备位于我们常用的生化设备实验室。它被在申请人实验室工作的学生大量使用，也作为其他IRBV实验室的偶尔资源。近年来，该摇床的温度和转速控制问题日益频繁。这些问题导致我们学生的研究活动出现不可接受的延误。因此，需要资金购买适应我们所有应用的大容量培养摇床（在不同温度下生长的不同大小的培养物）。这笔拨款将使我们能够更换目前出现故障的设备。

Incubator-shakers are vital components of laboratories working in microbiology and molecular biology research. Thus, highly qualified personnel trained in these areas at the Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV, affiliated with the Département de sciences biologiques of Université de Montréal) frequently require this equipment. Our Institute currently has a large incubator-shaker which is 18 years old and has become unreliable and costly to maintain. This equipment is located in our common biochemistry equipment laboratory. It is heavily used by students working in the laboratories of the applicants and also serves as an occasional resource for other IRBV laboratories. In the recent years, this incubator-shaker has been having increasingly frequent problems of temperature and rotation speed control. These problems cause unacceptable delays in our students' research activities. Funds are therefore requested to purchase a large capacity incubator-shaker adapted to accommodate all our applications (cultures of different sizes grown at various temperatures). This grant will allow us to replace the current failing equipment.