Research Directions:
Marine biodiversity
Description:
This project will develop a cutting-edge service to create comprehensive 3D multimodal imaging atlases of marine organisms for the global scientific community. The service will combine three imaging methods – 3D histology, lightsheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) and micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) – to gather complementary information. Micro-CT provides highly detailed visualisations, LSFM highlights specific regions of interest and 3D histology enables the visualisation of cell and tissue structures. Overlaying these allows researchers to produce a 3D atlas with high levels of information about the specimen. The project will begin by imaging simple invertebrates before progressing to more complex organisms, like molluscs, sharks, rays and teleost fish.