Creative Writing

Graphite on paper was imaged using red fluorescent light on the Nikon inverted microscope at 20x magnification.

A DIC image of a diatom at 40x with its long axis parallel to the sheer. The image was taken using Nikon Inverted microsocpe.

This is a DIC image of a diatom at 40x objective with its long axis oriented perpendicular to the sheer. Image was taken using the Nikon Inverted microscope.

This is a confocal image of BPAE cells stained with three fluoresence dye. The image was taken with the 40x objective using the Nikon Inverted Microscope. The dyes were DAPI(blue), BODIPY(green) and Texas Red(red).

Confocal image of Arabidopsis root at 40x objective using the Nikon Inverted Microscope. Arabidopsis root was stained with DAPI blue dye.

Honey Bee

This photograph is of a wing of a honey bee under the Zeiss microscope using brightfield microscopy.

This is a DIC image of a diatom using the 60x oil immersion objective on the Nikon Inverted microscope. The long axis was oriented parallel to the analyzer.

hairy

40x hair from a bee under DIC with the Zeiss

Flower Pollen

Stamen and pollen of a yellow flower found on JMU campus. Image was taken using the Zeiss dissecting microscope using 3.2x objective magnification. Flower was picked in the middle of November and had yet started to die.

Is it a toy?

that's pretty sweet

 

This photograph of sugar crystals was taken with the Olympus using darkfield microscopy. The 4X objective lens was used and the exposure and sharpness were adjusted.

Root

This was taken on the confocal microscope at 2x (performed a z-stack and rendered).  Alexa 488 and DAPI were used on this Arabidopsis root. 

BPAE

This image was taken using the confocal microscope. The BPAE cells were dyed with Texas red-X- phalloidin (Actin), BODIPY FL(microtubules) and Dapi(nuclei). When saved the blue and red were reversed making for an interesting picture!

arabidopsis!

This teal root was taken under the 60x objective on the Nikon using confocal microscopy and is an overlay of blue and green dye staining.

alien invader

culex mouthparts under 4x with the zeiss

Fluorescence image of Bovine Pulmonary Arterial Endothelial celss (BPAE) at 40x objective taken on Nikon Fluorescence Microscopy. Cells were stained with DAPI, Texas Red and BODIPY.

Sugar Rush

This image of sucrose crystals was taken using widefield fluorescence microscopy on Nikon inverted microscope.  Images were taken on red, green, and blue emitting wavelengths of light.  The view field was then moved slightly, the images retaken with red, green and blue light, and the unaligned images overlaid on one another.  Four different versions of these images, including a monochrome image, were stitched together in Photoshop.

Buzz Buzz

Multichannel wide-field image taken of an autofluorescent adult fruit fly, with red, green, and blue filter blocks in place. A sharpen filter was applied to the image and LUTs were adjusted to make the colors brighter.

Hairy Lil' Fella

Hair Today, Hair Tomorrow

These images of three different hair types were taken using phase microscopy at 20x.

root tip

This fluorescence image of an Arabidopsis root tip was taken on the Nikon at 60X magnification using filter cube #1. Exposure was adjusted and sharpening tool was used.

Granite

This is a picture of a dirty whiteboard eraser.  It was taken

on the dissecting microscope at 2.5x.