Renovation of a Multi-User Animal Research Facility

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。资金用于翻新霍夫斯特拉大学的多用户动物研究设施（MARF），这是一所私立本科院校。MARF的改造将创建一个最先进的研究设施，为生物生物学提供丰富的研究和研究培训环境。MARF的领域将进行更新，直接增加可以进行的研究实验的数量，范围和范围。翻修将提供具有精确气候控制的研究室，这在MARF中迄今为止是不可能的。改造将提供精确的温度控制实验室，改善照明可靠的光：暗周期，以及适当的电力供应，以支持现代科学设备。现代化的设施将把越来越多的跨学科和教育水平的研究小组聚集在一个地点。它将增加霍夫斯特拉大学和其他机构之间的研究对话和合作。所有使用翻新后的MARF的个人的研究计划将大大加强，否则将不可行的项目将进行。在改造后的设施中提出的实验包括研究蜥蜴的生理和功能表现，鱼类摄食的流体动力学和棘皮动物的化学感受。该设施将成为一个平台，以刺激进步的思想和进行新的研究，如那些专注于温度在生理和生物力学现象中的作用。这将激发更广泛的个人，特别是代表性不足的群体，对现代化的MARF进行研究的兴趣和愿望。更多的成果将来自使用更新后的MARF并在国家和国际会议上介绍其研究的研究人员和学生。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funds are provided to renovate the Multi-User Animal Research Facility (MARF) at Hofstra University, a Primarily Undergraduate Institution. Renovation of the MARF will create a state-of-the-art research facility supporting a rich research and research training environment for organismal biology. Areas of the MARF will be renovated that directly increase the number, scope and range of research experiments that can be performed. The renovations will provide research rooms that have precise climate control which to date has been impossible in the MARF. The renovations will provide experimental rooms with precise temperature control, improved lighting with reliable light:dark cycles, and appropriate electrical supply to support modern scientific equipment. The modernized facility will bring together in a single location an increased number of research groups spanning multiple disciplines and educational levels. It will increase research dialog and collaborations between Hofstra and other institutions. The research programs of all individuals using the renovated MARF will be greatly enhanced and projects that would otherwise be unfeasible will be conducted. Experiments proposed in the renovated facility include studies of physiological and functional performance in lizards, hydrodynamics of feeding in fishes, and chemoreception in echinoderms. The facility will be a platform to stimulate progressive thought and conduct new studies, such as those that focus on the role of temperature in physiological and biomechanical phenomena. This will stimulate interest in, and desire to conduct research in the modernized MARF from a broader range of individuals particularly from underrepresented groups. Increased dissemination of results will come from researchers and students that use the renovated MARF and present their research at national and international meetings.