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Find out about the latest news, announcements and stories about microscopy at ANU.
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Images of microfossils taken at CAM are being used to help understand Australia’s past environment, as part of the Australian Museum’s Citizen Science project “Date a Fossil”.
- Application
Food poisoning is a major health burden worldwide. Foodborne bacteria and their toxins can cause damage and trigger inflammation, contributing to diarrhoea and vomiting. Prof. Si Ming Man and his team are trying to understand how the immune system fights against these disease-causing bacteria.
- Application
Dr Ryan McQuinn has analysed plant architecture and leaf structure using cryo scanning electron microscopy at CAM
- Application
Dr Ben Long, Dr Wei Yih Hee and Prof. Dean Price from Research School of Biology have successfully synthesised structural carboxysomes within the chloroplast of the model plant, tobacco, using a minimal gene set. Using TEM, Rubisco can be seen encapsulated in the negatively stained, purified plant carboxysomes.
- Application
Scanning electron microscopy (QEMSCAN) has been used to help discover more about Neanderthal occupation of Chagyrskaya Cave.
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This month's image, Can you count the number of bacterial spheres? comes from Anukriti Mathur of the Man Group, in The Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at JCSMR.
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January's image, "This is a mystery!", was taken by Michael Frese from the University of Canberra.
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This month's image, Nebula, was taken by Damien Muckle of the Quinn Group in JCSMR's ACRF Department of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics.