Acquisition of a Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope for the Molecular Biosciences

该奖项支持购买激光扫描共聚焦显微镜(LSCM)，以加强阿肯色大学费耶特维尔分校的细胞和分子生物科学研究。将利用该仪器的研究项目包括：(1)鸟类和植物中病毒在细胞之间的激活和移动，(2)解决酵母、果蝇和小鼠的染色体组织、动粒-染色体相互作用和染色体断裂问题，(3)植物细胞中的蛋白质靶向和运输，(4)免疫细胞和色素细胞之间的细胞相互作用，以及(5)鸟类的生殖道发育。该仪器将极大地扩大生物学教师及其研究生和本科生的研究机会，化学和物理系的研究人员也有可能使用该仪器来评估生物纳米技术中使用的生物传感器和薄膜。LSCM将完全纳入本科生和研究生的研究和教学计划。

This award supports the acquisition of a laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM) to enhance research in cellular and molecular biosciences at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Research projects that will utilize the instrumentation include: (1) activation and movement of viruses from cell to cell in birds and plants, (2) resolving chromosomal organization, kinetochore-chormosomal interactions and chromosome breakage in yeast, Drosophila, and mice, (3) protein targeting and transport in plant cells, (4) cellular interactions between immune cells and pigment cells, and (5) reproductive tract development in birds. The instrument will greatly expand the research opportunities for biology faculty and their graduate and undergraduate research students, and the potential also exists for use of the instrument by researchers in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics to evaluate biosensors and films used in biological nanotechnology. The LSCM will be fully incorporated into undergraduate and graduate research and teaching programs.