A number of faculty members volunteer to cover areas in which they have special interest. An early unit in the class of 2001 covered some of the major features of representative plant cells that are well seen with bright field and phase contrast microscopy. During the later fluorescence microscopy tutorial week, each member of the class further extended his appreciation of cellular features while gaining the skills required for independent use of either the confocal or the computational optical sectioning microscope. One objective of the week was to compare the merits of the two kinds of microscopes. To facilitate this comparison, the same cell line was used for all experiments.
Image files tend to be large, and thus inconvenient to store and display in quantity.
While each student may print hard copies of selected image frames from his own collection, this web page makes it possible to compare a few of the nicest time-course and 3D volume images produced by each pair of students and to emphasize different ways to view the data.