Seeing is believing - Electron Microscopy at the ANU

Presented by Dr Cheng Huang & Lily Shen
Electron Microscopy Unit

Research students and staff of the ANU have access to eight electron microscopes, and training in their operation. The ANU Electron Microscopy Unit is used by biologists working on problems ranging from retinal degeneration to ion and water transport in plants, embryonic development in Drosophila and corals, the microstructure underlying gas exchange in leaves, photonic structures on butterfly scales. Sooner or later almost every research group needs to see what they are working with!

The EMU practical session will involve students in "hands-on" operation of scanning and transmission electron microscopes, learning the basic principles of their function, and capturing digital images of a number of specimens that may relate to other practical sessions. You will see how electron microscopes can provide information about the elemental composition of a sample, as well as its structure.

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