Acquisition of Centrifuges and Rotors

这项提案要求为购买超速离心机、高速离心机和每个离心机的转子提供资金。该设备将使植物学/生物学和动物学系的四名研究人员受益，他们从事以下研究：藻类光合色素-蛋白质复合体的分离和表征、捕光叶绿素-蛋白质复合体的生物发生调控、鱼类脂肪代谢的激素调控、植物细胞悬浮培养物的氮代谢、植物细胞培养物的再生。这一仪器将在建立现代植物生物学合成计划的过程中为一个小组提供重要的刺激。

This proposal requests funds for the purchase of an ultracentrifuge, high-speed centrifuge, and rotors for each. This equipment will benefit four investigators in the Departments of Botany/Biology and Zoology who are engaged in research on: isolation and characterization of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes from algae, regulation of the biogenesis of light- harvesting chlorophyll-protein complexes, hormonal regulation of lipid metabolism in fish, and nitrogen metabolism of plant cell suspension cultures, regeneration of plant cell cultures. This instrumentation will provide an important stimulus to a group in the process of building a synthetic program in modern plant biology.