Acquisition of a Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

购买共焦激光扫描显微镜

基本信息

批准号：
0215571
负责人：
Bruce Kohorn
金额：
$ 28.91万
依托单位：
Bowdoin College
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2002
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2002-07-01 至 2005-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0215571&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Acquisition Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

项目摘要

A grant has been awarded to Dr. Bruce Kohorn at Bowdoin College in orderto purchase a confocal laser scanning microscope. The microscope willprovide the ability to obtain high resolution fluorescent images from bothlive and fixed biological samples, and will become the only such instrumentin Maine at a liberal arts undergraduate college. The microscope will beused to explore fundamental questions in neurobiology and behavior, plantdevelopment, nuclear protein transport, evolutionary genetics, andbiomechanics. Seven faculty and their students from the Biology andPsychology departments of Bowdoin College, and two faculty from Bates andColby College will use the instrument to achieve high resolution images forbasic biological research. The new instrument will be used by many faculty in their research ontopics that include the function of the nervous system, the organization ofcells, and the comparison of cellular structures so as to understand basicprocesses of evolution. The students in research labs will be exposed tocurrent and standard technologies that they too will need to use once inmore advanced degree programs. Students will be prepared for careers inBiology and related fields by providing the technical and theoreticalbackground for one of the most common methods of imaging in cell andmolecular biology.

鲍尔多因学院（Bowdoin College）的布鲁斯·科霍恩（Bruce Kohorn）博士授予了一笔赠款，以便购买共聚焦激光扫描显微镜。显微镜将证明从Bothlive和固定生物学样本中获得高分辨率荧光图像的能力，并将成为缅因州缅因州唯一的文科艺术本科学院的乐器。显微镜将用于探索神经生物学和行为，植物开发，核蛋白运输，进化遗传学和生物力学方面的基本问题。鲍登学院（Bowdoin College）的生物学和心理学系的七个教师及其学生，以及贝茨（Bates）和科尔比学院（Bates and Colby College）的两名教职员工将使用该工具来实现高分辨率的图像，这些图像延迟了生物学研究。许多教师将在其研究中使用新仪器，其中包括神经系统的功能，细胞组织的功能和细胞结构的比较，以了解进化的基本过程。研究实验室中的学生将被暴露于托克和标准技术，他们也需要使用一旦更多的高级学位课程。学生将通过为细胞和分子生物学中最常见的成像方法之一提供技术和理论背景，为职业生物学和相关领域做好准备。