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Retinitis Pigmentosa
We are working in the lab today with retinas from patients who have donated their eyes to science after they have died. This portion of retina is a 4mm punch from the eye of a patient with retinitis...
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Metabolomic Eye On Display At Dulles International Airport
Our Metabolomic Eye image is being featured in the “Life: Magnified” exhibit at Dulles International Airport from now until November, 2014. I am pleased to note that two retinal images, our...
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Visualized Transforms
What you are seeing is a series of transforms from an amazing piece of code, Viking that was created by James Anderson which allows us to do our connectomics work. We complain quite a bit about the...
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Photoreceptor Cilium Tilt Series
This is an animated gif of a series of transmission electron microscope images of the cilium of a photoreceptor. For this particular dataset, we tilted the grid on a single axis, in one direction to...
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Metabolomic Eye In NIH Audacious Goals
The Metabolomic Eye image has been featured in the NIH/NEI Audacious Goals Initiative brochure that is being distributed to researchers as well as public and private funding agencies and advocacy...
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Metabolomic Eye Featured On Science Friday
As my colleague Virginia said earlier today, “For NPR nerds, it doesn’t get much better than “Science Friday”. Our Metabolomic Eye image has now been featured on Science Friday as the Picture of the...
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Photoreceptor Powerhouses
Camera: Gatan OneView 4k x 4k camera Visualization: Viking The mitochondria seen in this image are found in the inner segments of the photoreceptors found in the retina. Mitochondria are the...
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Tubes In Your Brain
This is an image of neurons and microglial cells in brain tissue surrounding a blood vessel. You are only seeing one part of this image as the blood vessel itself and the surrounding tissue is...
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Why Go To Paris?
This is what called me to Paris. What is it? It is a view of the back of your eye… More on this later.
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Connectomics Annotation
This is what a new connectomics dataset looks like when you are going through and annotating it. Annotating means following each one of those thin processes from the neuron through the complex tangle...
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First Connectomics IR Toolkit Demonstration
I was going through the archives of really old image data after a conversation with Liz Jurrus about some new work and came across this dataset. It looks rough with a little dirt on it in places, but...
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Wellcome Image Award Winner
We have another image that is an award winner, this time from the Wellcome Image Awards in the UK. Image authors are Jefferson Brown, Robert Marc and myself from the Moran Eye Center, University of...
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Easter 2015
On this day, the Christian world celebrates Christ, who washed the feet of the poor and outcast. To those who are marginalizing people, crafting law to disenfranchise them and refusing service in the...
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Human Retina In Golgi
The golgi stain is a histological method used to study tissues, particularly tissues of the nervous system. It was first used back in 1873 when Camillo Golgi first employed it in the study of the...
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Gallery Showing At Art Access
Science has been studying the retina for almost 130 years going back to the exquisite work of the great anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal in the late 1800’s. Building upon his work describing the...
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Nanoparticles
We need more animated gifs in science. Therefore, this is a fun animated gif of nanoparticles on a transmission electron microscope image that has been put through a narrow angle tilt series (like...
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Ultrastructural Textures
I’m busy preparing a manuscript that describes the changes in the retina of patients with a degenerative disease called retinitis pigmentosa that leads to massive alterations in structure and...
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Sweeping Ribbon
This image sequence shows a communication point between a number of cell types in your retina visualized with electron microscopy. To give you an idea of the scale of what you are looking at, the...
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Turquoise Rivers
I’ve been working hard on a couple of manuscripts recently along with some data from other collaborators and came across this image from a larger field that I thought was particularly beautiful. What...
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Happy New Year, 2016
Happy New Year, 2016. My hopes for you are that you have four walls and a roof to call home. May you have clean water and healthy food to nourish you and stave off disease. I wish for you to have...
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