Tag: cell phone camera

Label Grown ‘Butterflies’ on a ‘Gold Mine.’ Artist Oluwadara Olasupo Description A novel organic-inorganic hybrid semiconductor material developed in our laboratory was processed into a solution and crystals were grown from this solution by drop-casting on a hot plate at 153° Celsius. These types of hybrid crystals are now being studied and applied towards cheaper,…

Label Monument to Failure: AKA Starting Over Artist Erica Knorr Description Over the course of two years, I tried to make one set of molecules but was never successful. These are the surviving vials of my failed attempts because I finally cleaned them out of my drawer. Sometimes the best thing you can do for…

Label Mouse Heart Artist Paula Nieto Description We study cardiomyopathies, diseases that affect the cardiac muscle, using mice models to study the pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at the molecular, cellular and organ level. This picture was taken during a cardiomyocyte isolation experiment where we cannulate the aorta and perfuse the heart with…

Label Laurel Precedence Artist Adam Campbell Description This is the crude mixture of a reaction I ran on relatively simple molecules to create precedence for doing the reaction on more complex and valuable molecules for reaction development. After getting the information I needed from the crude mixture, I accidentally left it in the back of…

Label Colored Bodies Artist Sadia Sayed Description Our lab mainly focuses on the organization and maintenance of chromatin on the inactive X chromosome (Xi). We use gRNA mediated gene deletion, exploiting CRISPR/Cas9 system to delete specific gene of interest from primary cell line. In this image, a technique called FISH (fluorescence in-situ hybridization) is used…

Label Galaxy in a Round Bottom Artist Noelle Watson Description The round bottom pictured here contains a molecular switch (dithienylethene). Light can be used to switch this molecule between two different forms which have very different properties. Type Cell Phone Camera Artist Affiliation Graduate Student Department Chemistry and Biochemistry Area of Research Materials Chemistry Date…

Label ‘Three-eyed’ Pancreatic Cancer Organoid Artist Olalekan Usman Description This patient-derived organoid image was taken on a Zeiss Laser Scanning Confocal Microsocpe while investigating the role of mechanical cues on cell-cell junction proteins. Type Cell Phone Camera Artist Affiliation Graduate Student Department Biomedical Sciences Area of Research Cancer Biology Date 2016

Label Orbital Visualization of Thorium Complex Artist Marcus Liebenthal Description This work demonstrates a way of treating nuclear waste used in power plants and factories is to bind chemicals to radioactive elements, making them easier to remove from toxic solutions. Shown here is a simulation of such a reaction, where Thorium (a radioactive element) is…

Label Human Cardiomyocytes Artist Isabella Coscarella Description Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) are differentiated into cardiomyocytes and cultured in our lab to study diseases of the heart muscle. Our study aims to aid discovery of new and better therapeutic treatments for patients with hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies. The image shows an immunocytochemistry of mature…

Label Motivated via Catalyst Artist Cera Hsu Description This image is a top-down look into one of my microwave reactor cells that contains a chromium doped silica catalyst. Currently this catalyst is being utilized in microwave heating heterogeneous reactions for thermodynamic studies of the reaction mechanisms. Type Cell Phone Camera Artist Affiliation Graduate Student Department…