Large Field of View, High Resolution Multi Worm Tracker

这项申请是为了建立一个跟踪系统，该系统将同时电子跟踪大量微观生物的行为。 这将使研究人员能够在比现有方法更短的时间内更详细地研究更多的动物。 更详细地了解行为大大有助于研究行为的神经和遗传机制。 我们要求的相机比我们现有的设置具有更大的视野和更高的分辨率。 这将使我们能够研究比我们目前使用的更小和更大的动物。 这意味着，除了研究显微镜下线虫的行为外，我们还将能够研究果蝇幼虫和青蛙蝌蚪。 这项工作将使我们能够扩大与UBC以及加拿大和美国一些大学的研究人员的合作。反过来，这将增加我的实验室对研究生和本科生的培训机会。 研究生将受益于合作的跨学科性质，而本科生将有机会收集原始数据并从头到尾体验研究项目。 对于研究生来说，合作为他们提供了如何研究其他类型问题的见解，并经常为他们提供新的“工具”或技术，他们可以在自己的工作中应用。这种类型的经验允许本科生决定他们是否希望从事研究作为一种职业，或没有。 对于学生去其他专业，如医学，牙科和语言病理学，研究经验为他们提供了一个如何研究是做的理解和一种方式来解释他们的应用专业的基础科学研究。

This application is for funds to build a tracking system that will electronically track the behaviour of a large number of microscopic organisms at the same time. This will allow researchers to study more animals in greater detail and in a shorter time period than existing methods. Understanding the behaviour in more detail greatly facilitates investigations of neural and genetic mechanisms of behaviour. The camera we are requesting has a much larger field of view at a high resolution than our existing set-ups. This will allow us to study both smaller and larger animals than we are currently using. This means that in addition to studying the behaviour of a microscopic nematode worm, we will be able to study Drosophila larvae and frog tadpoles. This work will allow us to expand our collaborations with researchers at UBC, and at a number of universities in Canada and in the United States. This, in turn, will increase the training opportunities in my lab for both graduate students and undergraduate students. Graduate students will benefit from the interdisciplinary nature of the collaborations, while undergraduates will get opportunities to collect original data and experience a research project from beginning to end. For the graduate students the collaborations offer them insights into how other types of problems are studied and often gives them new "tool" or techniques that they can apply in their own work. This type of experience allows undergraduates to decide if they wish to pursue research as a career, or not. For students going on to other professions such as medicine, dentistry and speech pathology, the research experience offers them an understanding of how research is done and a way to interpret the scientific studies underlying their applied professions.