LABORATORIES & EQUIPMENT
The Collections of the IVPP have hundreds of fossil birds and other types of vertebrates; and we focus on describing these fossils at multiple biological levels, at the:
-Anatomical and Gross Morphological Level
-Phylogenetic Level
-Microanatomical Level (using CT-scanning methods)
-Histological/Tissue Level (using ground-sectioning methods, and other histological techniques)
-Chemical Level (using histochemistry, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy, and other methods with collaborators from China and other places in the World).
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Brief List of Laboratories and Equipment of the Avian Evolution Team and IVPP:
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1) Flat, planar CT-scanner; MicroCT scanner, CT scanning laboratory.
2) Paleohistological Laboratory (Ground-sections, contact or questions: Dr. Zhang Shukang)
3) Paleohistochemistry Laboratory (Paraffin thin-sections, contact or questions: Dr. Alida Bailleul)
4) Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM ultrathin sections, contact or questions: Dr. Li Zhiheng)
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FOR A COMPLETE AND DETAILED LIST OF EQUIPMENT, please click on this LINK that will redirect you on the IVPP website.
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Histological ground sections of Mirusavis, with Medullary bone. From Wang et al., 2019.
Histological ground section of a tooth and a fragment of dentary of Yanornis martini. From Bailleul et al., 2019.
Histological paraffin section of a demineralized predentary in an extant Istiophorid fish, stained with Masson's trichrome. From Bailleul et al., 2019.
