Lumenera supports child scientist in her algae research

In Canada, Lumenera is pleased to offer its support to Canada’s next generation of life science researchers by providing high-end digital scientific imaging solutions to 13 year old multiple gold medal winner Mikaela Preston. Mikaela’s award winning project involved research into enhancing Biofuel production through the mixture of multiple algae strains, and she contacted Lumenera to help with her ambitious project.

Lumenera was happy to provide an INFINITY2-2 microscopy camera for Mikaela’s cause. The INFINITY2-2 produced crystal clear, vibrant images for her algae research. She was easily able to set up the camera and capture images of her samples with Lumenera’s INFINITY CAPTURE and ANALYZE software packages. The INFINITY2-2 camera offered Mikaela high end color reproduction combined with excellent sensitivity, ensuring the best results possible.

The focus of the research is concerned with predictive modeling of multi-species algal bio-reactors, with the intent of understanding how commercial systems might be made more robust under variable environmental conditions. The project will involve a great number of cell counts. The hope is that automated cell count software can be used to reduce the manual effort required.