CISMM

Model of the mitotic spindle and an isosurface from a 3D stack of fluorescence images of a real mitotic spindle. The model has been manually placed relative to the image data.

Here is an example of a series of fibrin networks formed between ridges of optical glue. Perhaps they formed from a sheet?

Molecularly thin fibrin sheets have been observed during experiments in our group. There is some evidence that these sheets develop into fibrin networks. Here is one image showing perhaps this exact phenomenon. A sheet is laying across ridges made of hardened optical glue. However the sheet appears to be separating into individual fibers.

This image of adenovirus on a silicon substrate was scanned using the nanoManipulator. An adenovirus capsid has disrupted, spilling its DNA onto the surface in a tangle. The portion of the image above a certain height has been made semitransparent by adding an opacity texture. This enables us to see through the image to the icosahedral model of an adenovirus drawn aligned with the virus in the upper left corner. Surface color is according to height. The surface has a slight slope, resulting in uniform blue, gray, and red areas.

A strand of DNA tracked using cores. The red curve is the core. The blue curves are the DNA edges implied by the core location and radius.

This shows the 3 Dimensional Force Microscope

This image shows a 3D isosurface of fluoresence in a fixed human ephethelial lung cell culture. The lower surface is of the cells and cilia; the upper is the mucus layer above.

Three data sets are shown in this AFM image: topography is mapped directly to height, friction is mapped to color, and areas of high adhesion (normal to surface) are circled by contour lines.