Acquisition of Imaging Equipment for Determining the Function of Plant Genes

该合同支持购买一台具有光谱成像能力的共聚焦激光扫描显微镜（CLSM）和一台环境扫描电子显微镜（ESEM），用于威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的植物科学研究。该仪器将加强从分子到种群的尺度上的研究工作，以及在发育、生理学、进化和分类学的应用和基础方面的研究。该仪器还将为教育和培训工作增加新的维度。通过将设备整合到本科结构植物学课程的实验室组成部分、研究生培训和一个以高中为重点的推广计划中，显微镜将产生的影响将大大超出研究实验室。

This award supports the acquisition of a confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) equipped with spectral imaging capabilities, and an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) to be used in plant sciences studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The instrumentation will enhance research efforts at scales ranging from molecules to populations, and on applied and basic aspects of development, physiology, evolution, and taxonomy. The instrumentation will also add new dimensions to education and training endeavors. By integrating the equipment into the laboratory components of undergraduate structural botany classes, graduate training, and an outreach program focused on high schools, the microscopes will have an impact that extends significantly beyond the research lab.