Acquisition of Confocal Microscope

这一奖项是为了表彰为神经科学研究购买的共焦显微镜。计划进行两个使用这种显微镜的研究项目。第一个项目是开发一种新的方法来成像大脑中的突触抑制，以及一种新的方法来可视化小脑皮质颗粒层中抑制电路的功能结构。第二个项目是研究在各种细胞类型中发现的一种转录因子的定位和调节。这种显微镜将允许有才华的本科生成为科学学者社区的早期和积极的参与者。这种显微镜将在一个超过一半的生物专业学生是女性的系里加强本科生的生物学研究。这台显微镜还将位于一个种族多元化的地区；少数民族占爱荷华州暴风湖社区的三分之一，占公立学校系统的51%。一个外展目标是将当地和区域社区中代表性不足的少数族裔学生及其教师带入校园和进入科学界。

This award is for the acquisition of a confocal microscope for neuroscience research. Two research projects using this microscope are planned. The first project is to develop a new method of imaging synaptic inhibition in the brain and a new way of visualizing the functional architecture of inhibitory circuitry in the granule layer of the cerebellar cortex. The second project is to investigate the localization and modulation of a transcription factor found in a variety of cell types. This microscope will allow talented undergraduate students to become early and active participants in the community of scientific scholars. The microscope will enhance undergraduate biology research in a department where more than half of the biology majors are female. This microscope will also be situated in an ethnically diverse region; ethnic minorities make up one-third of the Storm Lake, Iowa community and 51% of the public school system. An outreach goal is to bring underrepresented minority students and their teachers from the local and regional community onto campus and into science.