Growth Chambers for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research in Plant Biology

这笔赠款支持购买两个步入式受控环境室（生长室），用于植物生物学的跨学科合作研究。生物学系在多伦多密西索加（UTM）的大学有一个充满活力和生产力的九个植物生物学教师谁一起整合的问题，将基因与生态系统，同时对生物体作为蓝藻和针叶树多样性的工作组。高度受控的环境对于这项研究至关重要，因为这些研究人员进行的所有拟议实验都需要无虫害的环境，并对温度、光照和湿度进行时间敏感的控制。步入式会议室将使这些研究小组能够解决UTM教师之间的新的合作研究，并利用与加拿大和国际上其他机构的合作。

This grant supports the purchase of two walk-in Controlled Environmental Rooms (growth chambers) for interdisciplinary collaborative research in plant biology. The Department of Biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) has a vibrant and productive group of nine plant biology faculty who together integrate questions that link genes to ecosystems, while working on organisms as diverse as cyanobacteria and coniferous trees. Highly controlled environments are critically essential for this research as all of the proposed experiments conducted by these researchers require pest-free environments with time-sensitive manipulations of temperature, light and humidity. Walk-in chambers will enable these research groups to tackle new collaborative research among UTM faculty and to exploit collaborations with other institutions in Canada and internationally.