An inverted microscope for research in algal ecology and cell biology

显微镜是许多科学领域所需要的基本工具。能够检查活的和/或脆弱的生物体、细胞或组织的一种类型的显微镜是倒置显微镜。倒置显微镜是一种显微镜，其光源和聚光镜位于样品台上方，指向下方;物镜位于载物台下方，并在载物台下方指向上方，因此称为“倒置”。该提案是一个倒置显微镜，以促进渥太华大学生物系和环境基因组学高级研究中心（显微镜所在地）的教授和学生在藻类生态学和细胞生物学（植物和动物）方面的研究。倒置显微镜将包括荧光，相位对比和DIC（微分干涉对比或Nomarksi）功能以及相机和图像分析系统，以便可视化和捕获有关天然微生物群落，天然或培养细胞群，单个植物和动物细胞以及参与关键细胞功能的蛋白质的高质量定量数据。

Microscopes are basic tools needed in many areas of science. One type of microscope that enables the examination of live and/or delicate organisms, cells or tissues is the inverted microscope. An inverted microscope is a microscope with its light source and condenser above the specimen stage pointing down; the objective lenses are below the stage and point upwards underneath the stage, hence the term "inverted". This proposal is for an inverted microscope to advance research in algal ecology and cell biology (plant and animal) by professors and students in the Department of Biology, University of Ottawa and in the Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, where the microscope would be located. The inverted microscope would include fluorescence, phase contrast and DIC (differential interference contrast or Nomarksi) capabilities as well as a camera and image analysis system in order to visualize and capture high quality quantitative data on natural communities of microbes, natural or cultured populations of cells, and individual plant and animal cells as well as proteins involved in key cellular functions.