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。倒置显微镜是一种能够检查活的和/或脆弱的生物体、细胞或组织的显微镜。倒置显微镜是一种光源和聚光镜在样品台上朝下的显微镜；物镜位于舞台下方，并在舞台下方指向上方，因此称为“倒立”。这是一个倒置显微镜的提议，旨在推动渥太华大学生物系和环境基因组学高级研究中心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（差分干涉对比或Nomarksi）功能，以及相机和图像分析系统，以便可视化和捕获高质量的定量数据，包括自然微生物群落，自然或培养的细胞群体，单个植物和动物细胞以及参与关键细胞功能的蛋白质。

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.