Acquisition of Instruments for Biosample Analyses in Research and Teaching

该奖项支持购买三种主要仪器，用于主要本科院校的分析生物化学研究和教学工作。该奖项授予对复杂生物系统的信息处理有相关兴趣的一组教员，将允许获取和操作高压液相色谱系统、元素分析仪和光成像系统。这些仪器将放置在一个中央共享实验室，由经验丰富的研究技术人员进行维护。预期的研究用途包括：研究真菌菌丝内的营养运动；新泽西州松林土壤化学的长期分析；昼夜节律和睡眠-觉醒周期对甲状腺激素及相关中枢神经递质分布的影响分析；澄清了Pantadon buchholzi独特进食回路的神经递质组织学，Pantadon buchholzi是一种具有不同寻常的眼睛的鱼，它同时接收来自空气和水的光；和其他人。此外，该设备将用于加强生物和化学的研究生和本科生课程。该设备的可用性将允许研究生和本科生的学生研究人员有复杂的研究仪器的实践经验。将受益于新设备的课程包括生物化学、细胞生理学、分子生物学、普通生态学、实践领域生态学，以及拟议的神经科学和其他方面的实验课程。该设备还将使几个外展项目受益，这些项目将参与者带入罗格斯大学/卡姆登学院的研究实验室。

This award supports purchase of three major instruments to be used for analytical biochemistry in research and teaching efforts at a predominantly undergraduate institution. The award, to a group of faculty with related interests in information processing in complex biological systems, will permit acquisition and operation of a high pressure liquid chromatography system, an elemental analyser, and a phospoimaging system. These instruments will be placed in a central shared laboratory where they will be maintained by an experienced research technician. Expected research uses include the following: studies of nutrient movement within fungal mycelia; long-term analysis of soil chemistry in the New Jersey Pinelands; analysis of the effects of circadian rhythms and sleep-waking cycles on distribution of thyroid hormones and related CNS neurotransmitters; clarification of the neurotransmitter histology of a unique feeding circuit in Pantadon buchholzi, a fish with an unusual eye that receives light simultaneously from air and water; and others. In addition, the equipment will be used to enhance numerous graduate and undergraduate course offerings in biology and chemistry. The availability of this equipment will allow student researchers at both graduate and undergraduate levels to have hands-on experience with sophisticated research instruments. Courses that will benefit from the new equipment include biochemistry, cell physiology, molecular biology, general ecology, practical field ecology, and a proposed laboratory course in neuroscience and others. The equipment will also benefit several outreach programs that bring participants into the research laboratories of Rutgers/Camden faculty.