Instrumentation for a Tissue Culture/Light Microscopy Instructional Core Facility

在过去的六年里，学院的生物系 的查尔斯顿加强了教学质量， 细胞和分子生物学领域。这一举措 包括采购现代化设备，雇用新的 教师，并扩大课程设置。符合 我们正在努力使我们的细胞和分子生物学现代化， 课程，这项建议的重点是要求微观 以及组织培养设备， 全细胞水平的实验室教学质量。这 设备将用于几个新的或重组的课程 包括分子生物学、细胞生物学、发育 生物学和植物生理学。孵化器和无菌 本建议书中要求的转移罩， 培养多种植物和动物细胞， 组织中光学显微镜，视频和图像分析 设备将用于研究细胞增殖， 迁移和粘附，以及进行染色体 分析和肿瘤诱导研究， 组织中采用这些技术的实验室是 以研究为导向，旨在帮助学生发展 批判性思维和数据分析技能，以及给予 学生动手研究质量设备的经验。

Over the past six years, the Biology Department at the College of Charleston has strengthened the quality of instruction in the area of Cellular and Molecular Biology. This initiative has included the procurement of modern equipment, the hiring of new faculty, and an expansion of course offerings. Consistent with this ongoing effort to modernize our Cell and Molecular Biology curriculum, this proposal focuses on a request for microscopic and tissue culture equipment which would be used to enhance the quality of laboratory instruction at the whole cell level. This equipment will be used in several new or restructured courses including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology and Plant Physiology. The incubators and sterile transfer hoods requested in this proposal, make possible the culture of a wide variety of plant and animal cells and tissues. The light microscopic, video, and image analysis equipment will be used to investigate cell proliferation, migration, and adhesion, as well as to perform chromosomal analysis, and tumor induction studies on cultured cells and tissues. The laboratories incorporating these techniques are research-oriented, and are designed to help students develop critical thinking and data analysis skills, as well as to give students hands on experience with research quality equipment.