It’s the season when the MBL’s Twitter feed is bursting with scientific images and movies that students and faculty are generating in the Advanced Research Courses. Many of these amazing images are possible due to the generous loan of top-shelf equipment from partnering vendors. Below are just a few examples. Follow along @MBLScience to keep up!
Here are two from the Embryology Course:
Hatched Ciona stained for phospo-H3 (red) and acetylated tubulin (yellow) @MBLScience #embryo2018 🔬 @zeiss_micro LSM800 Airyscan pic.twitter.com/Icar5yvWDX
— Andrea Attardi (@andattardi) June 17, 2018
Exploring polarized light microscopy:
Skeletons of sea urchin larvae are made of calcite, making them birefringent (and wonderful to image in polarized light). Nature is amazing! @MBLScience #embryo2018 pic.twitter.com/pMnUkgjel0
— PG Sanchez 🇵🇭 (@poljiology) June 17, 2018
Not to be outdone, the Physiology Course offers these microscopy fireworks (a renactment of a classic experiment at MBL, in which Ron Vale and colleagues discovered the kinesin motor protein family):
MICROTUBULE FIREWORKS!
Repeating Ron Vale’s classic experiment purifying kinesin from Squid (it still works)! Even more nostalgic since we are doing it at @MBLScience for the #physiology2018 course. Here we see microtubules sliding on kinesin motors! @roderick_tas @NikonInst pic.twitter.com/TPKshIENqu— Aidan Fenix (@AidanFenix) June 16, 2018
And another:
Great start at the MBL physiology course @MBLScience. Here’s a video of some beautiful #microbes growing in minimal medium under a @NikonUSA wide-field microscope. Segmented microcolonies are in outlined in blue. pic.twitter.com/0mwSFJ8KtZ
— Griffin Chure (@gdchure) June 17, 2018
Downstairs in Neural Systems & Behavior, the students are not only imaging neurons, but listening to them:
If you listen closely you can hear an action potential! 👂@MBLScience @grassfoundation pic.twitter.com/2T8Vh7zpSJ
— NS&B (@NSB_MBL) June 6, 2018