Confocal Video (Capillary) Microscopy with Fluorescence

Papadopoulous，Kyriakos D.，等杜兰大学“荧光共聚焦Viedo \（毛细管\）显微镜”收购一个去卷积工作站，连同一些附件和软件，将使杜兰大学化学工程系的研究人员能够进行共聚焦显微镜和复杂的图像分析。 Kyriakos Papadopoulos和Kim O.康纳实验室中现有的视频（毛细管）（荧光）显微镜装置已被所有参与的研究人员使用，这一升级将显著影响他们依赖显微镜的个人和联合研究项目。 更广泛的影响：PI将使用此次收购来可视化和量化界面过程，这些过程在涉及双重乳液、脂质体和癌细胞球状聚集体的药物递送方案中非常重要。 此外，该设备将是非常有用的能力，以开发毛细管显微镜技术，将可视化现象在高温下，也将有可能量化发光纳米线和运输的致密非水相液体在模型多孔介质，模拟污染土壤。 杜兰大学与美国南部主要的少数民族机构泽维尔大学有着非常紧密的研究和教育联系。 Kyriakos Papadopoulos与Xavier物理学教授Elia Zenazi进行了持续的合作研究项目，该项目涉及许多本科生，并为之前在Xavier主修化学的学生颁发了三个杜兰化学工程硕士学位。 此外，PI充分参与路易斯安那州少数民族参与联盟（LAMP），这是一项全面的全州计划，旨在大幅增加获得科学，数学，工程和技术（SMET）领域学士学位的少数民族学生的数量和质量。在过去的2年里，Vijay John通过这个项目指导了三名学生（来自杜兰大学的Jonathan Hijuelos和Hendekea Azene，来自迪拉德大学的Stephanie Sigers）。该计划是通过美国国家科学基金会资助路易斯安那州。研究人员致力于继续与Xavier进行研究合作，从而为该大学的学生提供教育机会。

Papadopoulous, Kyriakos D., et alTulane University"Confocal Viedo \ (Capillary\) Microscopy with Flourscence" The acquisition of a deconvolution workstation, which, together with a number of attachments and software will enable researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tulane University to do confocal microscopy and sophisticated image analysis. Existing video (capillary) (fluorescent) microscopy setups in the laboratories of Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Kim O.Connor have been used by all participating investigators, and this upgrade will significantly impact their individual and joint research projects that rely on microscopy. Broader Impacts:The PIs will use this acquisition to visualize and quantify interfacial processes that are important in drug delivery schemes involving double emulsions, liposomes, and pheroidal aggregates of cancer cells. Additionally, the equipment will be very useful in the ability to develop a capillary microscopy technique that will visualize phenomena at high temperatures, and will also make possible the quantification of luminescence in nanowires and of transport of Dense Non-Aqueous-Phase Liquids in model porous media that simulate contaminated soils. Tulane enjoys very strong research and educational ties with Xavier University, a major minority institution in the southern United States. Kyriakos Papadopoulos has had a continuous collaborative research project with Xavier Physics Professor Elia Eschenazi, which has involved many undergraduates and which has led to three Tulane Chemical Engineering MS degrees awarded to students who had previously majored in Chemistry at Xavier. Additionally, the PI's fully participate in the Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation (LAMP), a comprehensive, statewide program aimed at substantially increasing the number and quality of minority students earning bachelor's degrees in science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) areas. In the last 2 years, Vijay John has supervised three students through this program (Jonathan Hijuelos and Hendekea Azene from Tulane, Stephanie Sigers from Dillard University). The program is sponsored through an NSF grant to the State of Louisiana. The investigators are committed to continuing their research collaboration with Xavier, thus providing educational opportunities to the students of that University.