MRI: Acquisition of a Live-Cell Confocal Imaging Microscope for the University of Georgia

该奖项是为了获得倒置平台上的多光子共聚焦显微镜，该显微镜将与该大学超微结构研究中心的一台已有7年历史的共聚焦显微镜并行部署。在中心下面？，开门？政策，这一工具将提供给该大学和该区域的研究人员，用于各种领域的项目。来自不同学科的七位富有成效的大学研究人员将在他们的研究中使用该仪器。这些研究人员需要这种仪器，要么是因为它在倒置显微镜平台上提供了多光子能力，要么是因为它的快速扫描速度在真正的共聚焦扫描仪上提供了活细胞能力，或者两者兼而有之。主要用户的研究领域有：Euglenid分类学；合成有机化学；脂蛋白组装的生物化学；功能神经影像学；发育神经生物学;昆虫免疫调节；以及植物细胞生物学。这台显微镜将放在一个有38年历史的成像中心，该中心是大学社区高端成像的首要中心设施，目前为大学和其他地区机构的22个部门或其他行政单位的至少60名研究人员提供服务。该中心的目的是提供和维护尖端的仪器，以支持教师的研究需求，以及作为培训学生和员工的资源。该中心及其显微镜广泛用于研究生和本科生的高级成像教学，以及通过当地学校的参观和示范进行非正式的社区教学。最后，该中心的仪器已用于支持区域显微镜会议，以展示最先进的成像技术。

This award is for the acquisition of a multiphoton-ready confocal microscope, on an inverted platform, to be deployed in parallel with a 7-year-old confocal microscope at the university's Center for Ultrastructural Research. Under the Center's ?Open-door? policy, this instrument will be available to researchers at the university and in the region, for projects in a wide variety of areas. Seven productive university researchers, in a variety of disciplines, will use this instrument in their research. These researchers need the instrument either because it offers multiphoton capability in an inverted microscope platform, or because its rapid scan rate offers live cell capabilities in a true confocal scanner, or both. The major users' research areas are: Euglenid taxonomy; synthetic organic chemistry; biochemistry of lipoprotein assembly; functional neural imaging; developmental neurobiology; modulation of insect immunity; and plant cell biology. This microscope will be in a 38-year-old imaging center that is the premier central facility for high-end imaging for the university community, currently serving at least 60 researchers in 22 departments or other administrative units at the university and other regional institutions. The aim of the center is to provide and maintain cutting-edge instrumentation to support the research needs of the faculty, as well as to serve as a resource for training students and staff. The center and its microscopes are widely used in instruction in high-level imaging at both the Graduate and Undergraduate levels, as well as informal community instruction through tours and demonstrations at local schools. Finally, the instrumentation at the center has been used to support regional microscopy meetings for demonstrating state-of-the-art imaging technology.