Microscope station for live imaging

我们需要一种显微镜，使我们能够对活细胞、组织和有机体中的特定分子进行延时荧光成像。为了充分实现我们的研究目标，我们依赖于使用显微镜作为重要的实验工具。显微镜使我们能够可视化特定的分子以及它们与自然环境中的其他分子的相互作用，并测试它们对遗传、化学或物理扰动的反应。因此，基于显微镜的研究使用的活组织真正是活体的，并为更多基于体外的分子和生化技术提供了一个强大的补充工具。显微镜正在成为康科迪亚生物系研究人员的重要工具，但我们缺乏正确使用这项技术所需的设备。特别是，该部门没有适合环境控制和适合时间推移成像的倒置显微镜，我们唯一的选择是在其他机构使用显微镜，如蒙特利尔大学和麦吉尔大学。

We need a microscope that will permit us to do time-lapse, fluorescent imaging of specific molecules within living cells, tissues and organisms. To fully accomplish our research aims we rely on using microscopy as a crucial experimental tool. Microscopy permits us to visualize specific molecules and their interactions with other molecules in their native environments, as well as to test their responses to genetic, chemical or physical perturbations. Thus, microscopy-based studies using living tissues truly are in vivo and provide a powerful complementary tool to more in vitro based molecular and biochemical techniques. Microscopy is emerging as an essential tool for researchers in the Department of Biology at Concordia, yet we are lacking the equipment we need for us to properly use this technique. In particular, the Department does not have an inverted microscope that is amenable for environmental control and that is suited for time-lapse imaging, and our only option is to use microscopes at other institutions, such as The University of Montreal and McGill.