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Supporting Images for "Nano Springs Eternal"

News from the ASCB 45th Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA | December 10-14, 2005

D. C. France [1], V. Baru [2], M. Shribak [3], S. Inoue [3], S. McCutcheon[4], H. E. Buhse [4], P. T. Matsudaira [1,2,5]

[1] Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

[2] Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA

[3] Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

[4] Biological Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

[5] Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Images

Live Vorticella visualized in the LCPolScope. Intensity encodes retardance and color encodes direction of fiber slow axis.

Extended (in 1M EGTA) Vorticella stalk visualized in the LCPolScope.

Contracted (in 10 mM dibucaine) Vorticella stalk visualized in the LCPolScope.

Movies

File:FastVort Arpita.avi

File:France 500RPM.avi

File:France 9800RPM.avi

File:France 9800RPM.mov

24 MB: Live Vorticella cell contracting and re-extending under high opposing centrifugal force (~11500g acceleration) in the Centrifuge Polarization Microscope.

More information

until further construction, see my research page:
[| http://web.mit.edu/dcook/www/research.html]