The McFarLab welcomes our newest lab member, our brand new TECAN Spark Multimodal plate reader. The Spark will help us conduct high-throughput screening of synthetic reporters of cell wall stress, plus we will also use it for routine experiments to track cell wall signaling (reactive oxygen species bursts, Ca2+ bursts), cell wall composition, fluorescent protein signals, and to quantify DNA and RNA.

Thank you to NSERC for the Research Tools and Instruments Grant that supported this purchase.