Acquisitions to create an Organismal Physiology Research Laboratory for Research and Teaching at Eastern Michigan University

这项奖励支持购买一些仪器和相关物品，用于研究生物生理学。这些仪器将作为一个共享设施进行管理，提供核心基础设施，以支持本科生和研究生的研究、课程和培训。生物系的十几名教职员工将使用该设施，他们活跃在动物、植物和微生物生理学的研究领域。将购买的仪器包括光合作用测量的气体交换系统、动物呼吸测量系统、氧气传感器系统、pH计、微型操纵器和生长室。这些最先进的生理仪器将供教职员工、学生研究人员和生物学课程的参与者使用。将从仪器中受益的教员研究项目包括对二相性蜘蛛中动物新陈代谢的检查，蝙蝠生理学，植物气孔生理学，以及湿地中微生物介导的分解。

This award supports purchase of a number of instruments and related items to be used for investigation of organismal physiology. The instruments will be managed as a shared facility that provides core infrastructure to support research, coursework and training of both undergraduate and graduate students. The facility will be used by a dozen faculty members within the Biology Department who are active in research that spans animal, plant, and microbial physiology. Among the instruments to be acquired are a gas-exchange system for measurement of photosynthesis, animal respirometry systems, an oxygen sensor system, pH meters, micromanipulators, and growth chambers. These state-of-the-art physiological instruments will be used by faculty, student researcher, and participants in biology courses. Faculty research projects that will benefit from instrumentation include examinations of animal metabolism in dimorphic spiders, bat physiology, physiology of plant stomata, and microbially-mediated decomposition in wetlands.