Renovation of the Purchase College Molecular and Cellular Biology Research Suite

摘要本奖项由2009年美国复苏与再投资法案（公法111-5）资助。提供资金翻新分子和细胞生物学研究设施，购买学院，纽约州立大学。普什学院成立于1967年，是一所四年制本科院校，在研究、本科生研究培训方面有着悠久的历史，从20世纪70年代中期开始，普什学院就获得了联邦政府的资助。该实验室设施用于教师研究和本科生研究培训。所有本科生都必须完成8学分的原创研究。许多学生还在学院的实验室做暑期研究，或者在学年期间参加独立的研究课程。这笔资金将允许：(1)通过移动一些非结构性墙壁来重新设计显微镜室的一部分，从而使学生在使用电子显微镜方面的研究训练更有效。(2)重新配置预备室：其中一半将成为分析数字显微镜图像、DNA序列数据和电泳凝胶数据的设施。另一半仍将是预备区。(3)分子/细胞生物学区将包含一个新的工作台配置，有许多研究站和适当容纳研究设备的区域。所有的工作台都将连接到联网的计算机工作站。这些翻新将支持正在进行的巨噬细胞、嗜热细菌、海洋无脊椎动物细胞防御和环境反应以及细胞过程的基础研究。这些改造将提高研究效率和生产力。翻新将加强已经富有成效的学生/教师合作研究，并继续由购买学院进行的本科生研究培训。这将对当地社区大学产生积极影响，这些社区大学将学生送到珀克斯学院进行为期5周的分子和细胞生物学的密集、独立研究。改造将使购买学院的生物教师继续什么已经成为一个30年的传统研究型课程的本科生。

AbstractThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funds are provided to renovate the Molecular and Cell Biology research facility Purchase College, State University of New York. Established in 1967, Purchase College is a four-year undergraduate institution with a record of research, undergraduate student research training, and receipt of federal grants to fund these efforts dating back to the mid-1970s. The lab facility is used for faculty research and undergraduate research training. All undergraduate students are required to carry out an eight-credit capstone experience involving original research. Many students also do summer research in the College's labs, and/or take independent research courses during the academic year. The funds will permit: (1) Redesigning part of the Microscopy room by moving some nonstructural walls, allowing for more efficient student research training in the use of Electron Microscopes. (2) Reconfiguring the preparatory room: half of it will become a facility for the analysis of digital microscopy images, DNA sequence data and electrophoretic gel data. The other half will remain a preparatory area. (3) The Molecular/Cell Biology area will contain a new bench configuration, with numerous research stations and areas to properly contain research equipment. All of the benches will be wired for networked computer workstations. The renovations will support ongoing fundamental research on macrophages, thermophilic bacteria, marine invertebrate cellular defenses and environmental responses, and cellular processes. The renovations will increase the research efficiency and productivity. The renovation will enhance already productive collaborative student/faculty research, as well as continue the undergraduate research training being conducted by Purchase College. It will have a positive impact on the local community colleges that send their students to Purchase College for 5 weeks of intensive, independent research in Molecular and Cellular Biology. The renovation will enable Purchase College's Biology faculty to continue what has become a 30-year tradition of a research-based curriculum for undergraduate students.