Improvement of Light Microscope Capabilities and Multi-User Phytoplankton Culture Facilities at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

毕格罗实验室是一家私人非营利性研究实验室，拥有大约20名主要研究人员，他们都参与了海洋生物研究。该领域的所有学科都用来回答有关世界海洋环境的基本问题。毕格罗实验室因其高质量的研究氛围而受到尊重，但许多设备并不是最先进的。该项目涉及Bigelow已显示出领导地位的研究领域：浮游植物生产力；真核和原核生物中最小的光合作用海洋生物的生物学，包括通过各种技术鉴定它们，包括分析色素和免疫反应、它们在自然界中的计数和分布、它们的结构以及对海洋生产和全球硫循环的贡献；缅因湾海洋学；当地鱼类种群和某些无脊椎动物的生物学。该项目将提供用于实验目的的显微镜设备(亮场、相位对比度、表观照明、荧光和立体)和藻类养殖箱。这些项目将增加对海洋浮游植物养殖中心以及设在毕格罗实验室的流式细胞术和细胞分离设施的利用。

Bigelow Laboratory is a private, non-profit research laboratory with approximately twenty principal investigators, all involved in marine biological research. All disciplines of the field are applied to answer fundamental questions about the world's marine environment. Bigelow Laboratory is respected for its high quality research atmosphere, but much of the equipment is not state-of- the-art. This project concerns areas of research in which Bigelow has demonstrated leadership: phytoplankton productivity; the biology of the smallest photosynthetic marine organisms both eukaryotic and prokaryotic, including their identification by various techniques including analysis of pigments and of immune reactions, their enumeration and distribution in nature, their structure, and contribution to marine production and the global sulfur cycle; the oceanography of the Gulf of Maine; the biology of local fish populations and certain invertebrates. The project will provide microscopic equipment (brightfield, phase contrast, epi-illumination, epifluorescence, and stereoscopic), and algal culture boxes for experimental purposes. These items will increase the utilization of the Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton and the Flow Cytometry and Cell Separation facilities housed at the Bigelow Laboratory.