Laboratory for Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis (See our website)


Barnacle cirri x200

Located in the basement of Carnegie, the lab is currently equipped with a JEOL JSM-6100 scanning electron microscope (ca. 1990) with a Thermo/Noran Sigma Super-Dry Energy Dispersive Spectormeter. Digital imaging is done via AIA2 software. All the instrumentation is maintained under continuing service contracts. Routine maintenance, training, and lab oversight is provided by Greg Anderson. For more information contact:

Greg Anderson 207-786-6110
 electron microscope
JEOL JSM-6100 SEM

Unidentified invertebrate from a biofilm.

Animal and Neurophysiology Labs

neurobiology workstation
 The neurobiology and physiology labs have multiple workstations equiped with modern digital data acquisition setups. Computers and software are upgraded on a routine schedule.
Green House Facility
The greenhouse sits atop Carnegie Science Building and runs the entire length. The roof has automated ventilation (high cfm blower assisted) and manual table level vents. Supplemental heat is hot water baseboard. A collection of temperate, tropical, and neotropical plants are maintained by student staff and the greenhouse coordinator, Mary Hughes. A small, recirculating wet wall and pond (below, left) are used to cultivate various vascular and nonvascular plants. A small terrarium houses a variety of local peat bog species. The greenhouse is used for both teaching and research by students and faculty. The coordinator maintains all needed supplies for routine cultivation.

Growth Chambers
The department has four large, but old, temperature/light/humidity controlled growth chambers suitable for botanical research. growth chambers

Flow Cytometer

We have one Becton-Dickinson flow cytometer (ca. 1993) with cell sorting/ collection capabilities that is used for both student and faculty research in immunology and cell biology. Training and maintenance of the instrument is provided by Beth Whalon.

To contact Beth: 207-786-6377

 

Darkrooms, Digital Photography, and Bates College Computing and Imaging Center
Carnegie Science has two darkrooms set up for chemical photographic processing. One darkroom is located within the Electron Microscopy Lab, the other is for general use. Both are maintained by Greg Anderson. Routine supplies are maintained to support the work of both faculty and students for the academic program. Research supplies are purchased out of grants. The department has various microscopes equipped for digital micrography (SEM, compound and dissecting). In addition, the Imaging Center has microscopy labs set up so that imaging can be done in the course of experiments on site. darkroom

Teaching and Research Lab Computing
All teaching and research labs in biology are equipped with Dell PCs and updated on a four year cycle. In addition, our core biology course labs have wireless networked laptop PCs. Printing is done locally or at network laser printers located around campus. A variety of general purpose software (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite, Prism 5, graphics, Excel, etc) is provided by the Library and Information Services through the Bates network. The Biology Department also provides statistical (e.g., GraphPad Prism, Minitab) and graphical (e.g.,Adobe Photoshop) software via the network to support our programs.

 

 

 

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