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Picture of the Month

by Stanislav Vitha last modified 2008-07-14 10:16

Images acquired using MIC instruments are presented here. For suggestions, comments and to submit your picture to be featured here, please contact Stan Vitha (vitha@mic.tamu.edu, tel. 845-1607)

July 2008:

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A crystal of zeolite imaged on the JEOL 6400 scanning electron microscope at 5,000x magnification, 15,000 volt accelerating voltage, and 16mm working distance. Image by Dr. Michael Pendelton, MIC.

June 2008:

Transient expression of GFP-tagged proteins in tomato protoplasts. The 3D image was acquired using  Olympus FV1000 confocal microscope, 60x/1.2 water immersion objective.  Green = GFP, red = chloroplasts. Image width is 370 um. Original image data courtesy Maria Julissa Ek-Ramos,  PhD.,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics; http://devarennelab.tamu.edu/

May 2008:

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Confocal autofluorescence image of a new genus/species of dinoflagellate cyst discovered from the Eocene (37.6 million years ago) of the Greenland Sea, Ocean Drilling Program Hole 913A (Firth, J.V., 1996:  doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.151.105.1996). Dinoflagellate cysts are made of dinosporin, a resistant, complex organic compound  similar to sporopollenin (which comprises the walls of pollen and spores), that enables cysts to be preserved as microscopic fossils in sediments hundreds of millions of years old. Sample courtesy of John Firth, IODP (http://iodp.tamu.edu/staffdir/indiv/firth/). Olympus FV1000 confocal microscope, 60x/1.2 water immersion objective.

 

April 2008:

Surface topology of a 3D resolution test specimen. Reflected light confocal data. Olympus FV1000 confocal microscope, 40x/0.6 dry objective. Topological projection of the confocal dataset was visualized with Surface3D plugin in ImageJ software.  The square wells in the specimen are 200 nm deep. Image by Stan Vitha.

 

March 2008:

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Botryococcus braunii colonial microalgae were crushed, releasing accumulated hydrocarbons stored in the extracellular matrix. Sample courtesy of Taylor Weiss (T. Devarenne Lab, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics). Differential Interference contrast image was acquired on Zeiss Axiophot microscope, using PlanApo 100x/1.3 oil imm. objective, by Stan Vitha.

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