CSBR: Living Stocks: Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota

CSBR：活畜：普罗瓦索利-吉拉德国家海洋藻类和微生物中心

基本信息

批准号：
1905393
负责人：
Michael Lomas
金额：
$ 53.38万
依托单位：
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-09-01 至 2022-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1905393&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CSBR Living Stocks Provasoli Guillard

项目摘要

Microalgae are essential photosynthetic plants that support the diverse ecology of nearly all aquatic food webs, play a central role in the global environment and regulating global climate, and more recently support a rapidly growing global bioeconomy. The National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (NCMA) is one of a small number of global culture collections focused on curating algae biodiversity, and the only one in the U.S. with a primary focus on marine microalgae. The NCMA curates over 3,000 distinct algal strains isolated from around the world representing all classes of marine microalgae currently known to science. Many of the algae in the NCMA Collection are unique to this specific collection and thus represent an irreplaceable genetic resource for the global community. For nearly four decades, the NCMA has provided this unique resource to researchers, students at all levels, educators and companies worldwide, all interested in working with microalgae to investigate fundamental questions in biology, global processes and biotechnology. As an example of the importance of the NCMA to the research community, each year, 200-300 published papers cite use of NCMA-curated microalgae strains, with many of these papers being supported by the NSF and other U.S. federal agencies. This award will support demonstrable improvements to the NCMA Culture Collection, its activities, and provide added value to our various stakeholder groups. This award will allow the NCMA to 1) continue to maximize curated biodiversity of marine phytoplankton; 2) refine the procedures and formulations for cryopreservation as a long term management strategy for microalgae collections; 3) integrate imaging cytometry as part of our collection maintenance and distribution procedures to provide enhanced value related to each strain; and 4) expand a microalgae education and training portfolio. Specific deliverables from this award will be documentation of the continued provision of professionally curated microalgae cultures and culture support services to stakeholders, the accession of any newly discovered microalgae for support of present and future science, and expansion of our publically searchable informational database associated with each accessioned strain to include new scientific information. In addition, this award will support the inclusion of relatively new instrument technology, imaging flow cytometry, to allow for the easy generation of basic reports on cell abundance and condition, including embedded images, to be provided with each microalgae strain we distribute. These reports will provide stakeholders much needed information on what to expect for the strains they have ordered.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

微藻是基本的光合作用植物，几乎所有水生食物网的多样生态，在全球环境中发挥着核心作用并规范全球气候，并且最近支持快速增长的全球生物经济学。国家海洋藻类和微生物群（NCMA）是少数全球文化收藏之一，旨在策划藻类生物多样性，是美国唯一主要关注海洋微藻的一个。 NCMA策划了3,000多个与世界各地分离的不同藻类菌株，代表了目前已知的所有海洋微藻。 NCMA集合中的许多藻类都是该特定集合所独有的，因此代表了全球社区的不可替代的遗传资源。在近四十年的时间里，NCMA为全球各个级别的研究人员，学生和公司提供了这种独特的资源，所有这些都有兴趣与Microalgae一起研究生物学，全球过程和生物技术方面的基本问题。作为NCMA对研究界重要性的一个例子，每年200-300张发表的论文引用了使用NCMA策划的微藻菌株的使用，其中许多论文得到了NSF和其他美国联邦机构的支持。该奖项将支持NCMA文化收藏，其活动的明显改进，并为我们的各个利益相关者群体提供附加价值。该奖项将允许NCMA至1）继续最大程度地提高海洋浮游植物的策划生物多样性； 2）完善冷冻保存的程序和配方，作为微藻收集的长期管理策略； 3）将成像细胞术作为我们的收集维护和分配程序的一部分，以提供与每种菌株相关的增强价值； 4）扩大微藻教育和培训组合。该奖项中的具体可交付成果将是记录向利益相关者提供专业精心策划的微藻文化和文化支持服务的文档，任何新发现的微藻的加入以支持当前和未来的科学，并扩展我们与我们公开可搜索的信息数据库相关联的信息加入的压力，包括新的科学信息。此外，该奖项将支持包含相对较新的仪器技术，成像流式细胞仪，以便于生成有关细胞丰度和状况的基本报告，包括嵌入式图像，并与我们分发的每个微藻菌株一起提供。这些报告将为利益相关者提供急需的信息，以了解对他们订购的压力的期望。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来提供支持。