MRI: Acquisition of a Laser Scanning Microscope with Multi-spectral Imaging and Super-resolution

夏威夷大学马诺阿分校（UHM）获得了一份合同，将获得一台具有多光谱成像和超分辨率能力的新型激光扫描显微镜（LSM），以支持生命科学领域的研究和培训。LSM将用于当地公立和私立学校的K-12科学课程的演示，作为实验室演示和生命科学本科和研究生课程的一部分，NSF REU项目和其他专业研讨会的参与者，以及本科生和研究生以及与UHM教员进行研究的博士后助理。吸引年轻人从事科学事业，用先进技术培训下一代科学家、工程师和教育工作者，是我们的设施和这个机构的主要目标。所要求的LSM将被研究人员用来回答细胞生物学、发育生物学、生态学、海洋生物学、微生物学、海洋学、共生和热带农业等方面的基本问题。新仪器将支持NSF和其他资助的广泛的生命科学研究，包括：海洋无脊椎动物-细菌共生；海洋细菌群落的结构与功能plant-fungal共生;甲壳类肽激素；模式植物蛋白表达与酶功能研究海洋幼虫沉降中的细菌生物膜amphibian-microbe-fungal协会;海洋桡足动物的种群结构。这些研究的结果将发表在同行评议的科学期刊上，在科学会议上提出，并用于教学和公共宣传活动。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

An award is made to the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) to acquire a new laser scanning microscope (LSM) with multi-spectral imaging and super-resolution capabilities to support research and training in the life sciences. The LSM will be used for demonstrations for K-12 science classes of local public and private schools, as part of laboratory demonstrations and sessions for undergraduate and graduate university courses in the life sciences, participants in NSF REU programs and in other specialty workshops, and by undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral associates conducting research with UHM faculty. Attracting youth to careers in the sciences and training the next generation of scientists, engineers and educators in advanced techniques are major goals of our facility and this institution.The requested LSM will be used by researchers to answer fundamental questions in cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, marine biology, microbiology, oceanography, symbiosis and tropical agriculture. The new instrument will support NSF- and other funded research in a broad range of life sciences including: marine invertebrate-bacterial symbiosis; structure and function of marine bacterial communities; plant-fungal symbioses; crustacean peptide hormones; protein expression and enzyme function in a model plant; bacterial biofilms in marine larval settling; amphibian-microbe-fungal associations; and marine copepod population structure. The results from these studies will be published in scientific peer-reviewed journals, presented at scientific meetings, and used in both teaching and public outreach activities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.