Scintillation Counter for Life Sciences Research

闪烁计数器需要对放射性同位素进行高灵敏度和特异性的定量和检测，用于6名FAES研究人员的各种生物应用中的分析方法。使用放射性同位素并因此需要闪烁计数器的实验是生命科学中长期存在的基本工具。我们请求支持校园内的台式闪烁计数器平台，以取代2个旧的不起作用的计数器，并支持研究重点是北极微生物学生态学和生物多样性，影响北极野生动物的环境变化，土壤科学和农业生态系统，植物-昆虫相互作用，植物基因组学和生物技术，并确定新的研究工具来研究锥虫病原体的基因调控。我们的团队是由国际公认的，建立在各自领域的领导者代表在FAES 3个不同的部门。该研究团队拥有广泛的科学兴趣和研究资源，允许广泛的尖端研究计划（包括NSERC/CRC资助），发现适用于真实的世界问题的基础知识。使用闪烁计数器平台是迫切需要的，它将在学术界、政府和工业界的国家和国际层面上保持和建立新的研究合作，从而为HQP提供高度丰富的多学科培训环境。 预计每年约有25-30名HQP将使用闪烁计数器，这对成功和及时完成研究项目至关重要，并确保他们能够为未来的雇主提供此类专业知识，包括学术界，政府和非政府机构以及工业界。

A Scintillation Counter is required to perform highly sensitive and specific quantification and detection of radioisotopes for analytical methods in a variety of biological applications for 6 FAES researchers. Experiments using radioisotopes and thus requiring a scintillation counter are longstanding and essential tools in life sciences. We request support for an on-campus, bench-top Scintillation Counter platform to replace 2 older non-functioning counters and to support research focused on arctic microbiology ecology and biodiversity, environmental change impacting Arctic wildlife, soil sciences and agro-ecosystems, plant-insect interactions, plant genomics and biotechnology, and identifying new research tools to study gene regulation in trypanosomatid pathogens. Our team is composed of internationally recognized, established leaders in their areas representing 3 diverse departments in the FAES. The research team possesses wide-ranging scientific interests and the research resources to permit a broad range of cutting-edge research programs (including NSERC/CRC funded), discovering fundamental knowledge applicable to real world problems. Access to a Scintillation Counter platform is urgently need and will both maintain and establish new research collaborations at the national and international levels in academia, government, and industry, thus leading to a highly enriched, multidisciplinary training environment for HQP. It is anticipated that ~25-30 HQP per year will utilize the scintillation counter which will be critical to both successful and timely completion of the research projects and ensuring that they are able to provide such expertise to future employers, including academia, government and non-governmental agencies, and in industry.