Equipment
The Laboratory of Behavior & Evolutionary Neurobiology occupies several rooms in STRI’s Tupper Center in Panama City. Additional space for maintaining living insects is available in Gamboa. In addition to common laboratory equipment the following equipment is available. Additional facilities, including those for molecular biology, are available at STRI’s Naos Marine Laboratories and other labs at STRI.
1) Neurophysiology
- Agilent Technologies Gas Chromatograph (6890N) and Mass Spectrometer (5973 Network) coupled to a Syntech Electroantenogram recording system
- Universal Shielding Co. RFI/EMI Shielded Enclosure
- Sutter Instrument Co. P-97 Micropipette Puller
- 2 Leica Micromanipulator 10 mm (MW-MM-33 R/L) each with Leica MZ12.5 stereomicroscope and fiber optic illuminator
- ALA Scientific Huxley Wall Type Micromanipulator
- Leica MZ12.5 stereomicroscope and fiber optic illuminator
- Two AMPI Neurophysiological Stimulator Master 8
- N.P.I. Stimulus Isolation Module ISO-STIM 01M
- Tektronix Oscilloscope 4-CHAINTDS2024
- ALA Scientific Instruments Single Electrode Clamp Amplifier SEC-10LX
- Science Products Extracellular Amplifier / Filter Module For EPMS Systems
- Science Products Fast data acquisition and analysis interface Power 1401
- Data acquisition unit Micro 1401 Mk II --- Science products
2) Neuroanatomy
- Leica EM UC6 Ultra microtome with Leica EM KMR2 Glass Knifemaker
- Leica EM MP 15/230 V
- Fisher Safety flow laboratory fume hood
- Pelco BioWave Lab tissue processing system
- Micron thick section microtome
- Nikon Eclipse E600 Fluorescence Compound Microscope
- Zeiss EVO 40XVP Electron Microscope
- Cambridge Instruments GALEN III binocular microscope
3) Behavior
- Agilent Technologies Gas Chromatograph (6890N) and Mass Spectrometer (5973 Network) coupled to a Syntech Electroantenogram recording system
- Redlake Alliance High-Speed Digital Camera MotionPro X-3, with Dell Latitude notebook and two Seagate 300 Gb external hard drives
- Various SONY digital video cameras; Canon L2 Digital 8 video camera; SONY video editing stations; Apple G5 computers with editing software; Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro Digital camera
- Leica Wild M10 stereomicroscope, ring illuminator, Nikon Coolpix 8700 camera, and Javelin video camera.
- Leica MZ12.5 stereomicroscope with swing arm stand and fiber optic illuminator; additional lower magnification microscopes.
- International Light radiometer
- Rearing facilitities (located in Gamboa)