***** To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy Post images on http://www.imgur.com and include the link in your posting. ***** Hi Mike, not microscope sample per se ... since the microscope slide is one of my drawers, you are welcome to show your students http://home.earthlink.net/~tiki_goddess/TikiGoddess.jpg Featured on May 2015 Biotechnique cover (bring a hardcopy of the issue with you if possible): http://www.biotechniques.com/BiotechniquesJournal/2015/May/ http://content.yudu.com/A3niij/May2015/resources/index.htm more versions of Tiki_Goddess available at http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/68/ (4x zoom down) http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/70/ (2x zoon down, cropped) back story at http://home.earthlink.net/~tiki_goddess/ I purchase the slide a long time ago from Caolina Biological Supply Co. ... which stopped carrying it, and their web site is awful. you might want to get some diatom slides, example, http://www.diatoms.co.uk/ see http://nic.ucsf.edu/blog/?p=1279 I also like the variety of the Celestron 50 slide (or 100 slide?) collections - available from amazon.com Some more virtual samples http://meyerinst.com/gigamacro-gallery/ same instrument was used to make Terabite http://gigamacro.com/worlds-first-terabite-macro-image-press-release/ http://gigamacro.com/terapixel/ http://meyerinst.com/gigamacro-robotic-macro-imaging/ Enjoy, George On 6/29/2015 11:22 AM, MODEL, MICHAEL wrote: > ***** > To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to: > http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy > Post images on http://www.imgur.com and include the link in your posting. > ***** > > Dear All, > > We are planning to introduce some microscopy into schools. We would need a source of cells that would be: > (1) without cell walls (not from an onion) > (2) easy to obtain or maintain > (3) would stick to glass > (4) not too big and not too small (if amoebas are ~0.5 mm that would be too big, red blood cells are probably too small and don't stick to glass) > (5) be alive (cheek cells come out mostly dead, at least from my mouth....) > > Maybe C elegans? Or crush some kind of worm and get something out of it? Any ideas? Thank you! > > Mike > > -- George McNamara, Ph.D. Single Cells Analyst L.J.N. Cooper Lab University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX 77054 Tattletales http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/42
