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Project

A sustainable upgrade for advanced imaging research in functional biology

Fluorescence confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) has become central to all neurophysiological research performed within the division Animal Physiology and Neurobiology of the Biology Department. To solve our critical need for competitive confocal microscopy, we apply for a retrofitting of our current ‘Confocal FluoView FV1000’ system towards a complete FV3000 set-up. This upgrade will result in a faster system performing at higher sensitivity, enabling long-term live and multi-colour imaging of cells in cultures, tissues, organoids and whole embryos/animals, and offers a sustainable and highly cost-effective solution. Access to the system on site will allow performing cutting-edge imaging experiments within our ongoing/planned comparative studies across diverse traditional as well as innovative animal models, i.e. insect, nematode, octopus, zebrafish, killifish and mouse models. It will permit to maintain and strengthen a pole position in (neuro)biology research, to boost our joined research efforts as well as to educate future biologists.
Date:1 Jan 2021 →  31 Dec 2022
Keywords:neurobiology, neuroendocrinology, brain development & ageing, neural plasticity, regenerative biology, cognitive neuroscience
Disciplines:Animal cell and molecular biology, Animal morphology, anatomy and physiology