MRI: Acquisition of an OMX Super-Resolution Microscope

北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校获奖购买超分辨率光学显微镜，这将为我们机构的生物学家和其他科学家提供前所未有的能力来推进生命科学研究。这一新仪器是北卡罗来纳州唯一的此类仪器，将为北卡罗来纳州大学校园和整个地区的科学家提供用于教学和研究的尖端技术，使我们能够让当前和未来的本科生和研究生接触到他们所在学科的最新方法。通过提高解析细胞结构的能力，北卡罗来纳大学的研究可以对我们世界的知识以及对人类健康的理解产生更大的影响。这一奖项标志着北卡罗来纳大学系统继续致力于为我们的学生和科学家提供尽可能好的环境。超分辨率显微镜的获奖将支持北卡罗来纳大学在生物科学方面的全面研究。超分辨率显微镜位于新的跨学科基因组科学大楼，将为文理学院(物理、数学、化学和生物系)以及医学院基础科学系的项目服务。研究主题从了解细胞如何相互黏附和交流，到基因组是如何控制的。了解这些过程的细胞学基础将有助于北卡罗来纳大学在未来几年保持在生物科学的前沿。

An award is made to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to purchase a super-resolution light microscope, which will provide biologists and other scientists at our institution with an unprecedented capacity to advance life science research. This new instrumentation, the only example of this sort in the state of North Carolina, will provide scientists on the UNC campus and throughout the region with cutting edge technology for both instructional and research use, allowing us to expose current and future undergraduates and graduate students to the latest approaches in their discipline. By increasing the ability to resolve cellular structures, research at UNC can make an even greater impact on the knowledge of our world as well as understanding human health. This award marks the continued dedication of the UNC system to provide the best possible environment for our students and scientists.The award of the super-resolution microscope will support the entirety of the diverse research in biological sciences at UNC. Housed in the new interdisciplinary Genome Sciences Building, the super-resolution microscope will be positioned to service projects in the College of Arts and Science (In the Departments of Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Biology) as well as in basic science Departments in the School of Medicine. Research topics range from understanding how cells adhere to and communicate with one-another to how the genome is controlled. Understanding the cellular underpinnings of these processes will help keep UNC at the forefront of the biological sciences for the years to come.