Nikon Small World has announced the winners of this year’s photomicrography competition. My image of a drain fly embryo made it to the Images of Distinction category!
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Confocal excitation
The pipetting marathon I went through the other day was worth it—the experiment worked! Now I get to image some exciting and colorful samples in the confocal microscope, and experience that thrill of seeing something for the first time, once again 🌈🔬
This image of a brachiopod larva was selected in the Nikon Small World 2021 photomicrography competition!
This is a bryozoan embryo with its blastopore facing us. The blastopore is the hole in the middle. The “balls” are the nuclei of the cells that make up the embryo. While cells have many other structures, they are not visible in this image. The only thing visible is the DNA because I stained it […]
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Larva of a lamp shell
This is a brachiopod embryo at the gastrula stage, showing its outer surface and the blastopore at the bottom. To visualize the cell membranes, I stained the sample for F-actin (filamentous protein fibers present in cells) and acquired a volumetric image stack in a confocal microscope. Then, I converted the original data to a 3D […]
The eye imaginal disc of Drosophila (blue=elav, pink=repo, yellow=hrp) prepared with @Bugs_and_Slugs @ZVavrusova @zeiss_micro #embryo2017
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