Confocal
laser scanning microscopy
Dr David Crossman
Department of Physiology
Confocal image of rat cardiac arteriole labeled with WGA (green) and phalloidin
(red)
Acquired on the Zeiss LSM 710 confocal microscope
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award!
Light microscopy
Dr Michelle Hunt
Department of Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology
C17.2 cells grown in culture that have been fixed with 4% PFA and stained with
blue food colouring
Equipment: 20x objective on a Nikon Eclipse TE2000-S microscope .
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her award!
Confocal laser scanning microscopy
Dr John Taylor & Dr Kristy Manning
School of Biological Sciences
The image is a composite of 3 separate cypovirus polyhedra-GFP microcrystals
incubated with lysotracker dye and imaged by confocal microscopy
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Electron
microscopy
LabPlus EM
Unit
SAFETY PINS
Equipment BIRU Tecnai G2 Spirit TWIN electron microscope.
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Visualisation
and analysis
Emma Kay
Department of Physiology
Live imaging of HEK293 cells expressing human melanocortin 4 receptor tagged
with eGFP on Olympus FV1000 LCI microscope. Confocal images were overlaid with
DIC images to observe rapid movement of vesicles containing hMC4R-eGFP
Imaged on the Olympus FV1000 Live
Cell Imaging Confocal Microscope.
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MPEG)
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award!
Light microscopy
Dr Olivia Holland
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Placental Villus (or the Dying Caterpillar)
Three dimensional reconstruction of a single villus from a human placenta, with
the cytoplasm stained green and nuclei stained red. Clusters of nuclei can be
seen forming projections from the villus surface. These projections may be newly
growing villi or represent the packaging of old nuclei.
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prize!
Confocal microscopy
Kazuhide Shaun Okuda
Department of Molecular Medicine & Pathology
Lateral image of Tg(lyve1:DsRed2;kdrl:EGFP) transgenic zebrafish line showing
the blood vessels (green), lyve1 positive veins (yellow) and lymphatic vessels
(red) at 12 days post fertilisation. The whole larva was imaged Equipment:
Nikon D-Eclipse C1 confocal microscope (MMP)
Image in submission for publication - will be uploaded once permission is
granted!
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award!
Electron
microscopy
Manpreet Dhami
MICROSCOPIC BIRDS NEST FUNGI
Fruiting bodies of unidentified sooty mould fungi (from Kanuka infested with
honeydew scale insect) with characteristic resemblance to ‘Bird’s nest fungi’
Equipment: ESEM FEI Quanta 200F with a SiLi (Lithium drifted) EDS detector Mag:
3000 X
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