Freeze-Dryer

我们是来自猪传染病研究小组和加拿大牛乳腺炎研究网络的研究人员。我们研究一些微生物、细菌如何引起动物和人类的疾病。我们研究大肠杆菌、猪链球菌、产气荚膜梭菌和金黄色葡萄球菌等细菌。我们正在发现这些微生物用来致病的武器，并了解它们是如何工作的。这项研究导致了新的诊断工具和控制感染的新策略（如药物或疫苗）。我们正在使用和维护大量的动物源性细菌病原体。冷冻干燥可以长期安全地储存这些细菌病原体。我们要求的这种新的冷冻干燥机是为了取代1987年购买的现有的那台。我们现在的冷冻干燥机已经到了它的生命周期，没有更多的备件可以修复它。此外，在我们的校园里没有其他类似的乐器。如果推迟更换设备，就会暂停对所有研究项目的所有细菌菌株和突变体的保护。丢失宝贵而独特的生物材料的风险很高。因此，迫切需要更换它。这个设备将被大量的研究人员和他们的学员使用。

We are investigators from the Research Group on Infectious Diseases of Swine and from the Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network of the Faculté de médecine vétérinaire of Université de Montréal. We study how some microbes, bacteria, cause diseases in animals and humans. We study bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Streptococcus suis, Clostridium perfringens and Staphylococcus aureus. We are discovering the weapons that these microbes use to cause diseases and learning how they work. This research leads to new diagnostic tools and new strategies to control infection (such as drugs or vaccines). We are using and maintaining a huge collection of bacterial pathogens of animal origin. Freeze-drying allows for long-term and safe storage of these bacterial pathogens. This new freeze dryer we are requesting is to replace the current one bought in 1987. Our current freeze dryer has reached its end-life cycle and there are no more spare parts available to fix it. Furthermore, there is no other instrument like this on our campus. A delay in replacing the equipment would suspend all bacterial strains and mutants safeguarding for all research projects within the Faculté de médecine vétérinaire. There will be a high risk of loosing valuable and unique biological materials. There is therefore an urgent need to replace it. This equipment will be used by a large number of researchers and their trainees.