Taiaro, a closed atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, has waters that are saltier and warmer than the surrounding ocean. This provides a unique natural laboratory for studying the effects of climate change. The Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit set instrumented buoys inside of the atoll to collect data that will help researchers better understand how fishes adapt to these extreme conditions.
Author: Pascal Kobeh
Unit: Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit
These 3D structures of bacterial filamentous Fim-A pili determined by cryo-EM resemble Okinawan kelp forests. (Image credit: Pavel Puchenkov, OIST ITS)
Author: Matthias Wolf
Human motor neurons (green) connecting to muscle fiber (red), nucleus (blue).
Author: Laurent Guillaud
Deposits of polyethylene oxide (PEO) polymers and fluorescent polystyrene (PS) beads on glass after evaporation. Multiple concentric rings are formed by the "coffee-ring effect", where the evaporating liquid droplet shrinks leaving behind particle patterns.
Authors: Shivani Sathish, Arisa Yokokoji
Unit: R&D Cluster Programs Section, Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit
Peaceful neighborhood of the archaea and bacteria in a “biofilm zoo” in nature.
Author: Anna Prokhorova
Phage that infects bacteria in honeybee gut.
Authors: Larisa Kiseleva, Toshio Sasaki
Unit: Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Scientific Imaging Section
