• Question: have you used an electron miscroscope?

    Asked by Andrea to Eoin, Ester, Ildiko, Natasha, Paul, Tom on 7 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Natasha Myhill

      Natasha Myhill answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I haven’t – I use standard widefield microscopes in my lab and in previous labs I have used confocal microscopes which are basically really cool microscopes that use fluorescence to see cells!

    • Photo: Ester Gil Vazquez

      Ester Gil Vazquez answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I did use electron microscopy at uni, but I am not an expert. The images it produces are super cool though (you could get an expo out of them).

    • Photo: Paul McKeegan

      Paul McKeegan answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      I haven’t used one myself but a very nice colleague used one for me during my PhD. She took some images of mitochondria in embryos. Mitochondria are usually long, thin oval shapes, but in the egg cell they are actually little balls. They change shape gradually on day 7 and I was trying to find out if it started any sooner in my embryos. It was really cool to see such tiny cell components in close-up!

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