Issue 23 - Sept 2011

ARTICLES

Microscopy and Hygiene
Miloslav Kaláb

Most people know that it is important to adhere to hygienic rules - to wash their hands, to brush their teeth and to avoid unsanitary conditions in order to prevent infectious diseases. Electron microscopy shows that micro-organisms, particularly bacteria and fungi (moulds) are ubiquitous - on our skin, in our mouth and intestines, in foods, in the streets, on money, in animal and bird excrement, in the air - and they rapidly multiply in favourable conditions. This presentation shows bacteria at high magnification in various environments and in false colours.

Hijacking Natural Systems
Jo Berry

World-leading medical research is ongoing to discover how medicines work in a single cell. Using cutting edge microscope technology and working with scientists for six months, Jo has found new ways to represent the activity of cells from a drug perspective with a series of digital drawings and animations.

The use of 4, 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole, dihydrochloride (DAPI) in multiple flow cytometry applications

Flow cytometry can be defined as a semi-automated procedure for the interrogation of single cells in a continuous fluid stream enabling the derivation of simultaneous measurements of multiple extra and intra cellular characteristics. The objective of flow cytometry is very simple; to measure, by quantitation of photon release, constituents of the membrane, cytoplasm and nucleus of a particular cell or group of cells.

emc2012 Update

Introudcing the emc2012 team, including the plenary speakers Prof. Christian Colliex, Prof. Peter Dobson, Dr. Scott Fraser, Prof. Andreas Engel and Prof. Jeff Lichtman; and the Symposium Chairs, EMS Advisors and the Executive Scientific Programme Committee.

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