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  • Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) Skeletal muscle with misplaced Z bands (Tony Day for Gregorio Lab)

    Transmission Electron Microscope image

  • Polarized light microscopy - picrosirious red stain of optic nerve (causes collagen to become birefringent) - Cromey & Grantham

    Polarized light microscopy image

  • Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) image of spin coated biodegradable polymer (polycaprolactone). (15 micron image) Jessi Gamboa (Yoon Group) and Brooke Massani

    Atomic force microscope image

  • Alveoli (lung) - Two color confocal microscopy, Green nuclei with red elastin. (R. Clark Lantz lab)

    Confocal microscope image

  • Luxol fast blue (histology stain for myelin) - Cromey & Grantham

    brightfield color microscope image Luxol fast blue stain

  • Geosciences by Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) - Isabel Fay Barton

    Scanning electron microscope image

  • Differential Interference Microscopy (DIC/Nomarski) microscopy - unstained diatom at 40x, Zeiss LSM510 confocal, Doug Cromey

    Diatome by Differential Interference Microscopy

  • Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milled cross section in copper on the FEI Helios 660 G3 FIB-SEM DualBeam microscope. A protective cap of ion deposited platinum is necessary as polycrystalline copper mills at different rates which otherwise results in spires and curtains in the final cross section. (Dr. Paul Wallace)

    Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milled cross section in copper

  • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image of the head of a fly (Hitachi S3400) - Kuiper Imaging, Juliane Weber, PhD

    Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image of the head of a fly

  • Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) image of Perylene deposited on highly ordered pyrolytic graphite. (2 micron image) Derek Mangelsdorf (Armstrong Group) and Brooke Beam

    Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) image of Perylene

  • Drosophila neuropil - Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) - Patty Jansma

    Drosophila neuropil - Transmission Electron Microscope

  • Aspergillus spore structure, lactophenol blue staining with Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) - Pummi Singh

    Aspergillus spore structure

  • Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of a circuit board. Dee Belle-Oudry

    Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of a circuit board

  • Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of the broken edge of mechanical pencil lead. Brooke Massani

    Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of the broken edge of mechanical pencil lead

  • Liver - Oil Red O stain for lipids (cryostat section) - Cromey

    Liver - Oil Red O stain for lipids

  • Widefield and deconvolved image of fluorescently labeled fibroblasts - Patty Jansma

    Widefield and deconvolved image of fluorescently labeled fibroblasts

  • Geosciences Scanning Electron Microscope (Isabel Fay Barton)

    Scanning electron microscope image

  • Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of Strontianite (SrCO3) crystals grown on a calcite surface. (FEI Helios 660) - Kuiper Imaging, Juliane Weber, PhD

    Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of Strontianite (SrCO3) crystals

  • Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) Multi-lamina lipid bilayers showing cross-hatch pattern. Ammonium molybdate negative stain (Tony Day)

    Transmission Electron Microscope image

  • Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) Metallic nano particles. Unstained (Nick Pavlopoulos – Pyun Lab)

    Transmission Electron Microscope image

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    March 2023 word cloud of the tagging on the different microscopes