FSML: Improvements at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory

夏威夷大学获得一笔拨款，为Kewalo海洋实验室提供基础仪器，以增强分子技术在细胞、发育、进化和环境生物学研究和培训项目中的应用能力。这些仪器包括一台冷藏台式离心机、一台能够定量小体积核酸的分光光度计、一台能够检测西部、北部和南部印迹所需的化学发光信号的数字凝胶记录系统、一台石英移液器、一台弹道基因枪、一台微孔板读取器和一台能够切割半薄塑料切片的显微切片机。海洋实验室提供了前所未有的各种各样的研究机会，这些机会在大多数研究型大学是无法获得的。在Kewalo海洋实验室，毗邻檀香山市中心附近的活珊瑚礁，美国国家科学基金会资助的研究人员和他们的学员使用现代细胞和分子方法来研究各种各样的基本生物现象，利用全方位的海洋生物，包括软体动物，环节动物，扁形虫，nemerteans，多壳扁形虫，sipunculiids，甲壳类动物，毛齿动物，kinorhynchs, placozoans，栉水母，海葵和当地的硬核珊瑚。每种系统都有自己独特的处理问题、光学特性和学习机会。Kewalo海洋实验室的研究范围包括身体结构多样性的进化、生命史的进化、再生，以及从共生到生物膜和环境压力源对胚胎和幼虫发育的影响的研究。这些仪器将促进Kewalo海洋实验室的常驻科学家、本科生、研究生和博士后、访问科学家对夏威夷当地动物的研究，并为那些代表性不足的太平洋岛民学生和高中教师提供培训项目。有关Kewalo海洋实验室的更多信息可在http://www.kewalo.hawaii.edu/找到。

The University of Hawaii is awarded a grant to provide basic instrumentation to the Kewalo Marine Laboratory that will allow and enhance the ability to use molecular techniques in its research and training programs in cellular, developmental, evolutionary, and environmental biology. The instruments include a refrigerated table top centrifuge, a spectrophotometer capable of quantifying small volumes of nucleic acid, a digital gel documentation system capable of detecting chemiluminesence signals required for Western, Northern and Southern blotting, a quartz pipette puller, a ballistic gene gun, a microplate reader, and a microtome capable of cutting semi-thin plastic sections. Marine laboratories provide unprecedented access to a diverse array of research opportunities unavailable at most research universities. At the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, uniquely situated adjacent to living coral reefs near downtown Honolulu, NSF-funded researchers and their trainees use modern cellular and molecular approaches to investigate a wide variety of basic biological phenomena utilizing a full range of marine organisms, including mollusks, annelids, acoel flatworms, nemerteans, polyclad flatworms, sipunculids, crustaceans, chaetognaths, kinorhynchs, placozoans, ctenophores, sea anemones and local scleractinian corals. Each of these systems has its own unique set of handling issues, optical properties, and learning opportunities. Research at the Kewalo Marine Lab runs the gamut of studies on the evolution of body plan diversity, life history evolution, regeneration, and from symbiosis to investigations of the effects of biofilms and environmental stressors on developing embryos and larvae. The instruments will facilitate the research on local Hawaiian fauna by resident scientists at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, their diverse undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, visiting scientists, and training programs that reach out to under-represented Pacific Islander students and high school teachers. Further information about Kewalo Marine Laboratory may be found at http://www.kewalo.hawaii.edu/.