09/12/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/12/2024 11:28
Over the past several years, MDI Biological Laboratory has expanded its center for leading-edge microscopy, where innovative imaging technology and an open-access model are providing unique benefits to the scientific community.
The facility opened a new window on discovery this summer, when scientists outfitted a groundbreaking, laser-based 3D microscope with virtual reality features that allow users to magnify, view, measure and move around the molecular structures of whole organisms as if from the inside.
Now, a $6 million renewal of a grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) will increase researchers' access to the Light Microscopy Facility's full array of state-of-the-art magnification and image-processing infrastructure.
"We're not just keeping this incredible technology to ourselves," says Iain Drummond, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Lab's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Aging. "This award funds training, travel, and time with the equipment for scientists and students throughout northern New England. It's an effort to democratize science, to float all boats."
As a marker of its growing stature in the field, MDI Bio Lab in 2025 will become the new host of the prestigious, week-long Light Sheet and Fluorescence Microscopy Conference, formerly held at the University of Chicago's Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The grant is part of an NIGMS initiative to build research capacity in smaller states, called "Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence" (COBRE). The new COBRE award will also:
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Sidebar image: Zebrafish brain imaged by Romain Madelaine, Ph.D., illuminating neuronal pathways associated with sight.