Fluorescent/Phase Contrast Microscopy for a Cellular and Aquatic Biology Program Focusing on Chesapeake Bay Ecology

迅速扩大的华盛顿学院生物系是 更新和更新其课程中与下列方面有关的部分： 细胞/分子现象，即遗传学，细胞 生物学，微生物学，水生生物学，细胞生理学和 生物化学和免疫学新课程。 这种进步的大部分 通过采购一种 光学显微镜与相差和荧光特征获得 通过这个奖项。 这种新仪器可以让学生们 将这些特征和活动视为膜受体位点及其 运动性、抗原-抗体特异性和膜转运。 由于华盛顿学院生物系利用其 位于马里兰州东海岸的一个地点， 切萨皮克湾的生态，新的一个重要应用 显微镜是为了方便调查，区分 从混合的、自然发生的自养原生动物中异养的 人口。 这个奖项对华盛顿来说特别及时 大学，在120万美元的特别节目之后 从马里兰州拨款升级学校的 科学设施，并提高其能力， 海湾的分析研究。

The rapidly expanding Biology Department of Washington College is modernizing and upgrading the portions of its curriculum concerned with cellular/molecular phenomena, i.e. its courses in Genetics, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Aquatic Biology, Cell Physiology and Biochemistry, and a new course in Immunology. Much of this advance results from new capabilities conferred through the procurement of a light microscope with phase contrast and fluoresence features obtained through this award. This new instrument permits students to actually view such features and activities as membrane receptor sites and their motility, antigen-antibody specificity, and membrane transport. Since the Washington College Biology Department capitalizes upon its location on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to involve itself in studying the ecology of Chesapeake Bay, one important application of the new microscope is to facilitate investigations that distinguish heterotrophic from autotrophic protozoa in mixed, naturally occurring populations. This award is an especially timely one for Washington College, coming as it does on the heels of a $1.2 million special appropriation from the State of Maryland for upgrading the school's science facilities and for enhancing its ability to contribute to analytical studies of the Bay.