New generation microplate reader

来自魁北克市拉瓦尔大学植物学系的Dominique Michaud和Charles Goulet正在寻求NSERC研究工具和仪器赠款计划的财政支持，以购买SpectroMax Plus 384酶标仪。Michaud博士和Goulet博士在植物分子生理学和生物技术的广泛领域领导NSERC资助的研究项目，他们两人都依赖于基因克隆和高通量生化程序来完成他们工作的不同方面。新设备将通过简化和加速数据收集和处理，最大限度地减少运行实验室分析所需的生物材料量，并最终允许采用使用前几代读取器几乎无法执行的实验程序，从而有助于提高实验室队友的整体效率。由于申请人的研究中心目前没有功能性的酶标仪，新设备对同一建筑物中也进行基因克隆和/或高通量生物化学测定的一些同事也很有用。

Dominique Michaud and Charles Goulet, from the Département de phytologie of Laval University in Québec City, are seeking financial support from NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grants Program for the acquisition of a SpectroMax Plus 384 microplate reader. Drs. Michaud and Goulet lead NSERC-funded research programs in the broad fields of plant molecular physiology and biotechnology, and both of them rely on gene cloning and high throughput biochemical procedures for different aspects of their work. The new equipment will contribute to the overall efficiency of their teammates in the lab, by simplifying and accelerating data collection and processing, by minimizing the amount of biological material required to run lab analyses, and by eventually allowing the adoption of experimental procedures that could hardly be performed using readers of previous generations. Since no functional microplate reader is currently in place at the applicants' research centre, the new equipment will be useful as well to a number of colleagues in the same building also performing gene cloning and/or high-throughput biochemical assays.