Transforming museum industry to cryopreserve Australia’s diverse wildlife

本项目旨在开发符合博物馆行业惯例的野生动物细胞采集、培养和冷冻保存方法。该项目预计将产生关于在野外条件下收集动物活细胞及其在博物馆收藏中长期维护的新知识。该项目的预期成果包括提高博物馆建立活细胞收藏品的能力，并支持细胞生物学家并与他们合作。澳大利亚博物馆活细胞收藏的增长将推动细胞技术的创新，推进基础生物学知识，并将博物馆从记录遗传变异损失的角色转变为以活的形式保存遗传变异。

This project aspires to develop methods for collecting, culturing and cryopreserving cells from wildlife in line with museum industry practice. The project expects to generate new knowledge about the collection of live cells from animals under field conditions and their long-term maintenance in museum collections. Expected outcomes of the project include enhanced capacity of museums to build live cell collections and to support and collaborate with cellular biologists. Growth of live cell collections in Australian museums will fuel innovation in cellular technologies, advance fundamental biological knowledge, and shift museums from the role of documenting losses of genetic variation to preserving that genetic variation in living form.