An Electrophoresis Image Analysis System for the Whitney Laboratory

9318196巴特尔惠特尼实验室，佛罗里达大学的研究机构，成立于1974年，致力于使用海洋动物作为实验模型，研究细胞和神经生物学的基本过程。 这一使命得到了一个教学方案的加强，该方案利用海洋生物为从知名科学家到高中生的所有职业层次的调查人员提供实际研究培训。 由于惠特尼实验室的研究重点是细胞生物学，我们在很大程度上依赖于解剖学，生物物理学和生物化学以及最近的分子遗传学技术。 在惠特尼实验室的教师的专业知识和具体的研究兴趣是多样化的，但我们所有的工作福尔斯属于细胞信号和分子进化的共同主题。 实验室所有小组的研究工作的核心是我们的分子遗传学核心设施，成立于1989年。 分子遗传学和现代蛋白质化学工具在惠特尼实验室的研究成果中的当前和日益增长的重要性已经产生了对图像分析系统的迫切需求，该系统将允许我们有效地分析生化和分子生物学实验的结果。 为此，我们要求拨款购买一个电泳分析系统，该系统将位于实验室的中心位置，以便所有研究小组都能方便地使用。 这个系统是必不可少的，我们的许多NSF资助的研究项目的持续成功。 没有它，我们许多正在进行的项目将大大放缓，其他关键项目根本无法启动。 ***

9318196 Battelle The Whitney Laboratory, a research institute of the University of Florida, was established in 1974 and is dedicated to the use of marine animals as experimental models for the study of basic processes in cell- and neurobiology. This mission is augmented by a teaching program that provides practical research training using marine organisms to investigators at all career levels from established scientists to high school students. Because of the cell biological emphasis of research at the Whitney Laboratory, we rely heavily on the techniques of anatomy, biophysics, and biochemistry and, most recently, molecular genetics. The expertise and specific research interests of the faculty at the Whitney Laboratory are diverse, but all of our work falls within the common themes of cell signalling and molecular evolution. Central to the research efforts of all groups at the Laboratory is our molecular genetics core facility that was established in 1989. The current and growing importance of the tools of molecular genetics and modern protein chemistry in the research effots of the Whitney Laboratory has produced a critical need for an image analysis system that will permit us to efficiently analyze the results of biochemical and molecular biological experiments. For this reason we are requesting funds to purchase an electriphoresis analyzer system that will be centrally located in the Laboratory so it can be used conveniently by all research groups. This system is essential to the continued success of many of our NSF-funded research programs. Without it, many of our on-going projects will be slowed significantly, and other critical projects simply will not get off the ground. ***