Scintillation Counter for Life Sciences Research

6名FAES研究人员需要一个闪烁计数器来执行高灵敏度和特异性的放射性同位素定量和检测，用于各种生物应用的分析方法。使用放射性同位素的实验，因此需要一个闪烁计数器，是生命科学中长期和必不可少的工具。我们请求支持建立一个校园台式闪烁计数器平台，以取代2个旧的不能正常工作的计数器，并支持北极微生物生态学和生物多样性，影响北极野生动物的环境变化，土壤科学和农业生态系统，植物-昆虫相互作用，植物基因组学和生物技术的研究，并确定新的研究工具来研究锥虫病病原体的基因调控。我们的团队由国际公认的，在他们的领域建立了领导代表在FAES的3个不同部门。研究团队拥有广泛的科学兴趣和研究资源，以允许广泛的前沿研究项目（包括NSERC/CRC资助），发现适用于现实世界问题的基础知识。使用闪烁计数器平台是迫切需要的，它将在学术界、政府和工业界的国家和国际层面上维护和建立新的研究合作，从而为HQP提供一个高度丰富的多学科培训环境。预计每年约有25-30 HQP将使用闪烁计数器，这对于成功和及时完成研究项目至关重要，并确保他们能够为未来的雇主提供此类专业知识，包括学术界，政府和非政府机构以及工业界。

A Scintillation Counter is required to perform highly sensitive and specific quantification and detection of radioisotopes for analytical methods in a variety of biological applications for 6 FAES researchers. Experiments using radioisotopes and thus requiring a scintillation counter are longstanding and essential tools in life sciences. We request support for an on-campus, bench-top Scintillation Counter platform to replace 2 older non-functioning counters and to support research focused on arctic microbiology ecology and biodiversity, environmental change impacting Arctic wildlife, soil sciences and agro-ecosystems, plant-insect interactions, plant genomics and biotechnology, and identifying new research tools to study gene regulation in trypanosomatid pathogens. Our team is composed of internationally recognized, established leaders in their areas representing 3 diverse departments in the FAES. The research team possesses wide-ranging scientific interests and the research resources to permit a broad range of cutting-edge research programs (including NSERC/CRC funded), discovering fundamental knowledge applicable to real world problems. Access to a Scintillation Counter platform is urgently need and will both maintain and establish new research collaborations at the national and international levels in academia, government, and industry, thus leading to a highly enriched, multidisciplinary training environment for HQP. It is anticipated that ~25-30 HQP per year will utilize the scintillation counter which will be critical to both successful and timely completion of the research projects and ensuring that they are able to provide such expertise to future employers, including academia, government and non-governmental agencies, and in industry.