Danforth Center Expands to Include New Lab, Technologies

The Donald Danforth Plant and Science Center is accelerating its research and discovery with the expanded capacity of its integrated microscopy facility. Renamed the Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory (ABL), the facility will include high-resolution 3D imaging at the nanoscale as well as single-molecule approaches, automation, and machine learning. The expansion also includes new technologies at ABL, which Danforth Center Director Kirk Czymmek expects to obtain “as soon as funding becomes available.” The new technologies: Zeiss AxioZoom microscope. It allows all levels of high-resolution multiscale fluorescence, confocal, transmitted, and reflected imaging of slides, multiwell plates, and intact plant specimens....