Revitalizing Facilities for Research on Life in Extreme Environments

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。该奖项提供资金，将波特兰州立大学（PSU）科学楼2（SB 2）的10，745平方英尺转换为极端环境中的生命中心（CLEE）。 科学楼2（SB 2）在PSU的翻新将使CLEE研究人员的核心小组进行研究的极端温度和pH值和极端的营养，水和氧气的可用性，跨越生命的所有领域的生态和生理影响。此外，水生生物的动物护理设施的空间将增加一倍，以促进更大的温度控制和范围，从极端高温环境中养鱼。该计划将提供中央实验室支持空间，包括灵活的设备室，步入式环境控制室和专用于显微镜，细胞培养，嗜热菌生长和洁净室研究的房间。线性设备室将容纳高压灭菌器、玻璃清洗设施和共用设备以及PSU的嗜热菌和俄勒冈州的产甲烷菌保藏中心（OCM）培养物。此外，该空间将允许重新安置该地区的微阵列设施。通过大幅提高CLEE教师可用的研究空间的质量，PSU将继续领导国际努力，采取综合方法来调查生活在极端环境中的所有三个领域的生活。研究设施的改进将使研究能够更全面地了解人类对环境敏感生境物种的潜在影响及其相互作用。水产设施的两倍，有能力饲养冷适应鱼类将把PSU作为此类研究的关键中心。高温、高生物量生长设施的合并将加强对热稳定分子、嗜热菌及其病毒的生物化学、分子和微生物研究。翻新也将广泛影响PSU的教育。该大学在吸引和录取城市环境中的非传统和年长学生方面有着悠久的成功历史，它将有助于扩大本科和研究生研究项目，并将刺激化学，环境科学，生物学和地质学以及该地区其他机构之间的跨学科研究项目。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award provides funds to convert 10,745 square feet in Portland State University's (PSU) Science Building 2 (SB2) into a Center for Life in Extreme Environments (CLEE). The renovations of Science Building 2 (SB2) at PSU will enable a core group of CLEE researchers to conduct research on the ecological and physiological effects of extremes in temperature and pH and extremes in nutrient, water and oxygen availability that spans all domains of life. Additionally, the space for the animal care facility for aquatic organisms will be doubled to facilitate greater temperature control and range for rearing fish from thermally extreme environments. The plan will provide central laboratory support space, including flexible equipment rooms, walk-in environmental control rooms and rooms dedicated to microscopy, cell culture, growing thermophiles and clean-room research. The linear equipment room will house autoclaves, glass wash facilities, and shared equipment and PSU's thermophile and Oregon's Collection of Methanogens (OCM) culture collections. In addition, the space will permit relocation of the microarray facility in this area. By substantially improving the quality of research space available to CLEE faculty, PSU will continue to lead international efforts to take an integrative approach to investigating life in extreme environments across all three domains of life. The improvements in the research facility will permit research involving a more holistic understanding of the potential human impacts on, and interactions with, species from environmentally sensitive habitats. The doubling of the Aquatic facility with the capacity to rear coldadapted fishes will place PSU as key center for such research. The consolidation of high temperature, high biomass growth facilities will enhance biochemical, molecular and microbial studies of thermostable molecules, thermophiles and their viruses. The renovations will also broadly impact education at PSU. The University has a long history of success in attracting and matriculating non-traditional and older students in an urban setting and it will help expand undergraduate and graduate research programs and will stimulate interdisciplinary research projects between Chemistry, Environmental Science, Biology and Geology and other institutions in the region.