qmech Members Dr. Sanket Das

Brain slices of older tissues prepared with ice-cold (blue) and warm (red) preparation methods, as demonstrated by Shiwei Huang and Marylka Yoe Uusisaari in a paper in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. The asterisks (*) indicate visible neurons. While no healthy neurons are visible in the left image, seven are visible in the right. Abbreviations: PN, Purkinje neuron layer; ML, molecular layer; GrC, granular cell layer.

Professor Evan Economo and researchers in the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit compared genetic sequences from hundreds species of Pheidole, a group of ants with mysteriously high diversity. They used these sequences to construct a Pheidole evolutionary tree that suggests Pheidole evolved the same way twice, to take over the New World and then the Old World.

Vidyadhar Singh is standing next to the advanced nanoparticle deposition system at OIST.

Alexander Badrutdinov using a microscope to take a close look at a prototype developed by the lithography system.

Members of the PhysioDesigner development team: Yoshiyuki Asai (right) and Takeshi Abe (left). Mr. Abe is mainly responsible for developing a simulator for encoded models of physiological functions.