2nd Time Lapse!

These are the time lapses I did last night... they turned out okay, unfortunately the embryos moved all over the place over the 10 hours, hopefully next time we do the time lapse we can somehow anesthetize them and make them stop moving so we can get a really good development sequence.

Pretty cool though! For such small little balls of cells they move ridiculously fast.

My First Time Lapse!

Baby Nematostella!!

My baby Nematostella! These are also images from March, but they're my favorite... aren't they cute?





He's waving hello!!





Cool beans, huh?

Embryos!

These images are from back in March... these are little baby Nematostella!! The second photo you can see the cilia really well, the other two are just some nice photos of the entire little ball of cells.

Where the Magic Happens!

This is the very intense microscope I use for my data collection!! It is worth much more than I ever will be, and does so many things that when I sit down I barely know where to begin!! I have a lot of fun pressing all the buttons and seeing what happens.

In this picture a slide is all set up, I'm actually taking some time lapse and Z-stack data on my embryos I spawned yesterday, the first couple of images looked good and it will be running all night, I don't even have to do anything until tomorrow morning! This microscope is amazing!

Hopefully I can upload some images from my test run tomorrow! I'm still not sure how to get my images from the computer OFF the computer... The simple things in life that I have trouble with...

First Spawning of the Summer!

Began spawning Stack 6 today! Here they are... no, they don't look like the anemones from Finding Nemo but they're related! I want to get a close up picture of one of the Nematostella but my camera phone isn't very good at taking good pictures...

Tomorrow I'm doing the test run of our multidimensional acquisition data with these embryos so hopefully I'll have some cool data to post on Friday!

CAS Research Award

I got the CAS Research Award!! I found out that I was one of the 6 chosen out of about 50 or 60 applicants... pretty exciting!! I'm in Miami now working on the project... hopefully lots of updates will be posted in the next 10 weeks!!