Micro Universe

Image Credit: James Tyrwhitt-Drake, UVic AMF

The foot of a fruit fly.

Today I observed an interesting phenomenon with the SEM.  While imaging a radiolarian at 20kv, the sample became completely statically charged.  When I switched back to 1kv it behaved as a spherical mirror to electrons, revealing a distorted reflection of the inside of the electron microscope!

A new animation of a familiar subject; zooming in on the diatom Thalassiosira Rotula with an electron microscope.

It's been a long time!  Here's a new animation of the girdle band of the diatom Thalassiosira Rotula.

The Invisible Universe; Animations of the microscopic world created with a Scanning Electron Microscope.  Credit: James Tyrwhitt-Drake/UVic Advanced Microscopy Facility

Detail of the external membrane of a peritrich, a type of cilliated protozoan.

Marine Bacteria

Diatoms on the surface of an amphipod.

The stage and sample chamber of a Hitachi S-4800 Scanning Electron Microscope.