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Thomas Kornberg explains that protein signals can be transferred directly from producer cells to recipient cells via specialized filapodia called cytonemes. (Talk recorded in November 2014)
Dominique Bergmann explains how her lab can follow plant stem cells as they differentiate to become the pores called stomata that regulate CO2 uptake and O2 release. (Talk recorded in August 2014)
Hari Shroff describes an extension of selective plane illumination microscopy called Dual-View Inverted Selective Plane Illumination (diSPIM) (Talk recorded in July 2013)
Nico Stuurman shows how hardware synchronization can dramatically speed up microscope image acquisition and reduce light exposure to biological samples. (Talk recorded in April 2012)
This lecture covers the lenses of the microscope and how they are used to focus light onto a specimen and how light from the specimen is focused onto a camera or the retina of an eye. (Talk recorded in March 2012)