CSBR: Living Stocks, Operation of a Culture Collection of Algae

CSBR：活畜、藻类培养物保藏库的运营

• 批准号: 2015674
• 负责人: David Nobles
• 金额: $ 80.33万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2015674&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Living; Stocks; Operation; Culture

The Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin (UTEX) is one of only a handful of curated, public, biodiversity collections of living algae. UTEX is a repository and distribution center for algal biodiversity. The UTEX Collection is of the most genetically diverse assemblages of organisms available to the public and many of the algae UTEX maintains are unique and irreplaceable. Every year UTEX distributes thousands of living algal cultures, at modest cost, to scientists, educators, and students throughout the U.S. and the world. The great interest in microscopic algae as sources of transportation fuel, human food, animal feed, pharmaceuticals, and many other uses makes UTEX algae and services essential resources for hundreds of research projects. UTEX provides hands-on workshops on managing algal cultures, an informative interactive web site, species identification services, chemical composition analysis, and extensive correspondence with students engaged in algal research. UTEX personnel give presentations at public schools, conduct tours of UTEX facilities, assist teachers and students in conducting high school science projects, and provide presentations on the scientific importance of algae to hundreds of children every year at local open house events.UTEX currently maintains more than 3,000 unique living algal strains representing all major taxa, including over 450 type species. The UTEX mission is to promote, support, and enable the use of algae for research, education, and practical applications. In order to fulfill its mission, UTEX provides living algae to a user community at modest cost; serves as a permanent public repository of newly discovered and recently described algal species of potential value representing a broad range of genetic, morphological and biochemical diversity; acts as a source of information regarding algae to practicing scientists, other professionals, and the interested public; promotes and supports local science teaching and hands-on scientific activities by school children; and provides practical training services, support services, and supplies that facilitate culturing of algae at other sites. UTEX provides living algae starter cultures, bulk cultures, growth media, photobioreactors, photometers, genomic DNA and digital images. Services include identification of algae by morphological and DNA-sequence methods, physiological and biochemical characterization of algae, and cryogenetic storage of proprietary strains. UTEX maintains active research on cryopreservation technology, biochemical characterization, genomic sequencing, and taxonomic identification of accessioned strains. Algae-based research within the local institution is actively supported through the provision of cultures and by consultation with UTEX staff. Every year hundreds of published research articles reference the use of UTEX strains, many of which also recognize NSF support. In addition, many UTEX strains are used in research leading to the development of microalgae-based technologies for the production of biofuels and many other products. A comprehensive web site (www.utex.org) facilitates a secure means for ordering goods and services, provides links to resources elsewhere pertaining to algae, and includes diverse algae-related information.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.

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（UTEX）的藻类培养物收集是仅有的少数精选，公共，生物多样性的活藻类集合之一。 UTEX是藻类生物多样性的存储库和配送中心。 UTEX系列是公众可用的生物最多的遗传组合，许多藻类UTEX坚持认为是独特而不可替代的。每年，乌特克斯（Utex）每年都会以适度的成本向美国和全世界的科学家，教育工作者和学生分发成千上万的生活藻类文化。对微观藻类作为运输燃料，人类食品，动物饲料，药品以及许多其他用途的兴趣极大的兴趣使UTEX藻类和为数百个研究项目提供基本资源。 UTEX提供了有关管理藻类文化，信息丰富的互动网站，物种识别服务，化学组成分析以及与从事藻类研究的学生的广泛通信的实践讲习班。 UTEX人员在公立学校进行演讲，进行UTEX设施的旅行，协助教师和学生进行高中科学项目，并提供有关藻类每年对数百名儿童的科学重要性的演讲。当地的开放日活动中，UTEX当前维持3,000多种独特的活藻类菌株，包括450多种类型，包括450多种类型。 UTEX任务是促进，支持和使藻类用于研究，教育和实际应用。为了履行其任务，UTEX以适度的成本向用户社区提供活藻；作为新发现和最近描述的潜在价值的藻类物种的永久公共存储库，代表了广泛的遗传，形态和生化多样性。充当有关藻类的信息来源，向执业科学家，其他专业人员和有兴趣的公众提供有关藻类的信息；促进和支持小学生的当地科学教学和动手科学活动；并提供实用的培训服务，支持服务和供应，以促进其他站点培养藻类。 UTEX提供活藻类的起动培养物，批量培养物，生长培养基，光生反应器，光度计，基因组DNA和数字图像。 服务包括通过形态和DNA序列方法鉴定藻类，藻类的生理和生化表征以及专有菌株的低温储存。 UTEX维持有关冷冻保存技术，生化表征，基因组测序和分类菌株的分类学鉴定的积极研究。通过提供文化和与UTEX员工的协商，在本地机构内基于藻类的研究得到了积极的支持。每年，数百本发表的研究文章都会涉及UTEX菌株的使用，其中许多也认可NSF的支持。此外，许多UTEX菌株都用于研究，从而开发基于微藻的技术，用于生产生物燃料和许多其他产品。全面的网站（www.utex.org）促进了订购商品和服务的安全手段，提供了与藻类有关的其他地方的链接，并包括各种与Algae相关的信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识优点和广泛影响来评估NSF的法定任务。

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