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Description
The University of Kentucky (UK) is one of the eight universities in the united states that has
colleges of agriculture, engineering, medicine and pharmacy on a single campus, leading to unique
interdisciplinary collaborations. UK consists of 17 academic and professional colleges that offer
more than 200 major and degree programs at undergraduate and graduate levels. The UKs College
of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) serves the land-grant mission of research, education
extension and outreach, which are networked to the state''s 120 counties through the Kentucky
Cooperative Extension Services. To promote graduate, undergraduate and high-school education,
while maintaining cutting-edge research, we have established an analytical core in the plant science
building that houses several gas and liquid chromatography (LC) units. However, our progress is
severely limited by unavailability of LC-mass spectrometry (MS) unit that can cater to the needs of
CAFE researchers. We propose to purchase an Agilent ultra-high performance liquid
chromatography (UHPLC) unit fitted with a 6546 single quadrupole-time-of-flight-MS (TOF-MS).
The UHPLC-TOF-MS will become part of the analytical core facility located in the Plant Science
building (PSB) that is currently used by researchers from plant and soil Sciences, plant pathology,
horticulture and entomology departments. Like other analytical facilities in this core, UHPLC-TOFMS
system will be available to other CAFE researchers as well as to faculty from College of
Engineering and Biology. The UHPLC-TOF-MS will also be used for two undergraduate
experiential learning courses: ABT 395 (required independent research experiences class for ABT
majors) and BIO199 (research experiences class for freshman in the STEMcats program) as well as
for high-school education. Acquisition of UHPLC-TOF-MS will provide essential access to stateof-
the-art analytical analysis for the research community at UK.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 7/1/21 → 6/30/24 |
Funding
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture: $353,953.00
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