Applications and sample protocols
Applications of the Facility's services and how they can benefit your research, complete with sample protocols
Vapor fixation
Example of how this technique was used to fix fungal fruiting bodies for scanning electron microscopy.
Imaging cell cultures
Imaging cell cultures of macrophage-like cells exposed to colloidal gold, zymosan and latex beads.
Imaging a new worm species
Using scanning electron microscopy to produce images of a new species of polychaete, the methane ice worm, collected at a deep-sea site in the Gulf of Mexico.
Imaging a juvenile mussel
Samples of a juvenile mussel were collected in the field and transported to the facility on ice.
Imaging insect blood cells
Using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) to examine haemocytes of tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta.
Virus particles in insect gut
Using TEM to find barley yellow dwarf virus particles in aphid hindguts.
Delivery of therapeutic agents using nanoparticles
Using flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy to demonstrate how nanoparticles containing a drug were taken up by macrophage cells.
FRET with confocal microscopy
Using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer to study protein localization, dynamics and interactions in cells.
