A multi-functional plate reader for structural and functional proteomics.

由所要求的设备支持的研究计划是加拿大新的和独特的：解决海洋微生物如何分解海藻细胞壁。我们的方法移动通过新的和有效的海藻降解海洋细菌的分离，从不列颠哥伦比亚省的海岸，这些微生物基因组的测序和注释，克隆的基因，有针对性的基础上，他们假设的作用，在海藻多糖降解，最后密集的结构和功能的研究，这些基因编码的蛋白质。总的来说，这项研究计划有可能产生关于我们海洋中光合作用固定碳周转的新信息-这是海洋健康的一个关键问题。然而，一个预期的实际成果是为创建旨在将海藻生物质转化为生物燃料的工艺提供信息，并提供实现这一目标的具体工具。

The research program to be supported by the requested equipment is one that is new and unique in Canada: addressing how marine microbes breakdown seaweed cell walls. Our approach moves through the isolation of new and efficient seaweed degrading marine bacteria from the coast of British Columbia, sequencing and annotation of these microbial genomes, the cloning of genes that are targeted on the basis of their hypothesized role in seaweed polysaccharide degradation, and finally the intensive structural and functional study of proteins encoded by such genes. Overall, this research program holds the potential to yield new information regarding the turnover of photosynthetically fixed carbon in our oceans - a critical issue to ocean health. An anticipated practical outcome, however, is to inform the creation of processes aimed at the conversion of seaweed biomass into biofuel and to provide specific tools so that this can be achieved.