Acquisition of a Scanning Confocal Microscope

该提案是为了购买一台扫描共焦显微镜(SCM)。各种新的软件应用程序允许图像平面被单独收集、存储和重新组合，以产生结构的三维视图。这种在样品中空间分辨结构的能力是SCM独有的，也是它们提供的相对于传统数据采集方法(标准免疫荧光、透射和扫描电子显微镜、DIC显微镜等)的主要优势之一。该仪器将在高级超微结构研究中心SCM操作和维护，乔治亚大学和奥古斯塔佐治亚医学院的研究人员将很容易接触到该仪器。这些研究人员代表了不同的学科，包括农学、生物化学、植物学、化学、昆虫学、遗传学、微生物学、生理学、植物病理学和动物学，这些项目涵盖了对毛囊、植物和哺乳动物细胞的广泛细胞学调查。

The proposal is for the acquisition of a scanning confocal microscope (SCM). Various new software applications allow image planes to be individually collected, stored and recombined to produce three-dimensional views of structures. This ability to spatially resolve structures within a sample is unique to SCMs and is one of the major advantages that they offer over traditional methods of data acquisition (standard immunofluorescence, transmission and scanning electron microscopy, DIC microscopy, etc.). The instrument will be operated and maintained at the Center for Advanced Ultrastructural Research the SCM and will be easily accessible to researchers at the University of Georgia and the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta. These researchers represent a variety of disciplines including agronomy, biochemistry, botany, chemistry, entomology, genetics, microbiology, physiology, plant pathology, and zoology, and the projects cover a broad range of cytological investigations in furgal, plant, and mammalian cells.