New generation microplate reader

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资金支持，以购买SpectrMax Plus 384微板阅读器。Michaud博士和Goulet博士领导着NSERC资助的植物分子生理学和生物技术广泛领域的研究项目，他们两人在不同方面的工作都依赖于基因克隆和高通量生化程序。新设备将简化和加快数据收集和处理，最大限度地减少运行实验室分析所需的生物材料，并最终允许采用使用前几代阅读器几乎无法执行的实验程序，从而有助于提高实验室同事的整体效率。由于申请者的研究中心目前还没有功能齐全的微孔板阅读器，因此新设备也将对同一大楼中进行基因克隆和/或高通量生化分析的一些同事有用。

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.