Acquisition of a Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

鲍登学院的布鲁斯·科霍恩博士获得了一笔拨款，以购买一台共焦激光扫描显微镜。该显微镜将提供从活的和固定的生物样本中获得高分辨率荧光图像的能力，并将成为缅因州文科本科学院唯一的此类仪器。该显微镜将被用来探索神经生物学和行为学、植物发育、核蛋白运输、进化遗传学和生物力学的基本问题。来自鲍登学院生物学和心理学系的七名教职员工和他们的学生，以及来自贝茨和科尔比学院的两名教职员工将使用该仪器实现基础生物学研究的高分辨率图像。这一新仪器将被许多教师用于他们的研究课题，包括神经系统的功能、细胞的组织和细胞结构的比较，以了解进化的基本过程。研究实验室的学生将接触到当前的标准技术，一旦进入更高级的学位课程，他们也将需要使用这些技术。学生将通过提供细胞和分子生物学中最常见的成像方法之一的技术和理论背景，为生物学和相关领域的职业生涯做好准备。

A grant has been awarded to Dr. Bruce Kohorn at Bowdoin College in orderto purchase a confocal laser scanning microscope. The microscope willprovide the ability to obtain high resolution fluorescent images from bothlive and fixed biological samples, and will become the only such instrumentin Maine at a liberal arts undergraduate college. The microscope will beused to explore fundamental questions in neurobiology and behavior, plantdevelopment, nuclear protein transport, evolutionary genetics, andbiomechanics. Seven faculty and their students from the Biology andPsychology departments of Bowdoin College, and two faculty from Bates andColby College will use the instrument to achieve high resolution images forbasic biological research. The new instrument will be used by many faculty in their research ontopics that include the function of the nervous system, the organization ofcells, and the comparison of cellular structures so as to understand basicprocesses of evolution. The students in research labs will be exposed tocurrent and standard technologies that they too will need to use once inmore advanced degree programs. Students will be prepared for careers inBiology and related fields by providing the technical and theoreticalbackground for one of the most common methods of imaging in cell andmolecular biology.