Scintillation Counter for Life Sciences Research

用于生命科学研究的闪烁计数器

• 批准号: RTI-2016-00569
• 负责人: Whyte, Lyle
• 金额: $ 4.2万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=591491
• 关键词: Scintillation; Counter; Life; Sciences; Research

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.

6个FAES研究人员需要一个闪烁计数器来执行高灵敏和特定的放射性同位素的定量和检测，以用于各种生物应用中的分析方法。使用放射性同位素的实验需要一个闪烁计数器，这是生命科学中由来已久的基本工具。我们请求支持一个校园内、工作台顶式闪烁计数器平台，以取代两个较老的不起作用的计数器，并支持侧重于北极微生物生态和生物多样性、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、植物基因组和生物技术的研究，并寻找新的研究工具来研究锥虫病原体的基因调控。我们的团队由国际公认的、在各自领域内公认的领导人组成，代表FAE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，允许开展广泛的尖端研究项目(包括NSERC/CRC资助的项目)，发现适用于现实世界问题的基本知识。迫切需要一个闪烁计数器平台，并将在学术界、政府和工业界保持和建立新的国内和国际研究合作，从而为HQP创造一个高度丰富的多学科培训环境。预计每年约有25-30名HQP将使用闪烁计数器，这对成功和及时完成研究项目并确保他们能够向未来的雇主，包括学术界、政府和非政府机构以及工业界提供这种专门知识至关重要。