Acquisition of a Confocal Imaging Spectrophotometer

可视化复杂的荧光标记物体，量化物体之间的空间关系，并分析由此产生的空间明确的图像数据已经成为细胞，分子和发育生物学家的重要和必不可少的工具。该合同将支持购买徕卡共聚焦成像分光光度计，这将使达特茅斯学院的生物科学系能够从荧光标本中获得更详细的三维信息。达特茅斯学院的教职员工和学生将在各种研究项目中使用该仪器，包括研究细胞骨架、花原基发育过程中的基因表达模式、促性腺发育以及识别控制细胞命运和细胞分裂的基因。

Award Abstract - 9970048Visualizing complex fluorescently labeled objects, quantifying spatial relationships among objects, and analyzing the resulting spatially explicit image data have become important and essential tools for cell, molecular, and developmental biologists. This award will support the purchase of a Leica Confocal Imaging Spectophotometer that will allow the Department of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College to obtain more detailed three-dimensional information from fluorescent specimens. Faculty and students at Dartmouth will use this instrument in a variety of research projects, including studies on the cytoskeleton, patterns of gene expression in developing flower primordia, gonadogenesis, and the identification of genes controlling cell fate and cell division.