Lesson week

My scientific background is “geography and marine biogeochemistry”. One of objectives to come to “botany department” was to reinforce the sense and technique of biology. So far, however, I was not so eager in learning new biological techniques here, due to busyness of laborious paper works and routine field works. Then, I changed to my mind, and prepared other proposal of my study, reading many papers mainly on physiology of terrestrial and marine plants.
Therefore, I set this week and subsequent few weeks as “special lesson weeks” to learn some biological techniques. The keyword of this week is “fluorescence”. I’m learning basic techniques about how to use fluorescence microscope and PAM fluorometer from Celia and Meg. They would be useful for my study to know anatomical characteristics of macroalgae and their photosynthetic performance. Learning new techniques and scientific contents in English is so difficult. Thank you for your patience for my poor understanding, Celia and Meg. I’ll need many trials by myself, seeing papers and text books. But such techniques will inspire me with new ideas for my study. I’m so excited.

PAM(pulse amplitude modulation) fluorometer