Crossing the biology meso-nanoscale divide by scanning electron microscopy

该项目旨在在墨尔本大学和拉特罗布大学建立互补的扫描电子显微镜设施，以推进对作物、疾病、神经科学和珊瑚礁的研究。 SEM是快速发展的仪器，允许对可见尺寸的样品（如植物和动物的部分）进行高分辨率成像。潜在的创新，应用和社会效益是深远的，该设施预计将影响作物耐旱和耐盐性的发展，植物纤维的生产，大堡礁珊瑚对变暖的适应能力，药用农业的进步，牲畜和人类重要疾病的控制，以及感官加工和眼病。

This project aims to establish complementary scanning electron microscope (SEM) facilities at The University of Melbourne and LaTrobe University to advance research into crops, disease, neurosciences and coral reefs. SEMs are rapidly evolving instruments that permit high resolution imaging of visible size samples such as parts of plants and animals. The potential innovations, applications and benefits to society are far reaching, with the facility expected to impact the development of drought and salinity tolerance in crops, production of fibres by plants, resilience of Great Barrier Reef corals to warming, advances in medicinal agriculture, control of important diseases of livestock and humans, and sensory processing and ocular disease.