Laboratory Receives New Scanner

Left to Right: Graduate Student Tyler Couch, MS, Graduate Student Jayme Olsen, MS, and Postdoctoral Researcher Zachary Murphy, PhD. Jayme works in the lab of Dr. James Palis (MD). Tyler and Zachary work in the lab of Dr. Laurie Steiner (MD).

Left to Right: Graduate Student Tyler Couch, MS, Graduate Student Jayme Olsen, MS, and Postdoctoral Researcher Zachary Murphy, PhD. Jayme works in the lab of Dr. James Palis (MD). Tyler and Zachary work in the lab of Dr. Laurie Steiner (MD).

This Li-Cor chemiluminescent blot scanner was donated by the Napoleone Foundation to the University of Rochester Center for Pediatric Biomedical Research. It is used to investigate and quantitate specific proteins in cell samples. The team previously used film and a darkroom with multiple pictures in order to get these data, and the results were not as sensitive as this technology achieves. Now they obtain the data electronically with this scanner/detector.