Category Archives: Microscopy

Label Free Microtubule Microscopy

Posted on 05/01/2021 by Chaitanya

The exciting work of Mohammed Mahamdeh and Joe Howard (J.Microsc. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.12744) prompted me in the December break from teaching in 2018 to try and reproduce it, using the Nikon TiE inverted epifluorescence microscopy in the lab. With the able presence … Continue reading →

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Field microscope

Posted on 14/11/2018 by Chaitanya

After collecting a small personal museum of microscopes (I don’t have a very big house, so there are limits to it), it was thrilling to complete a project with Yash (BS-MS 2018) and Prof. Rapol in Physics @iiserpune, where we … Continue reading →

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Post-publication review and PLOS’ experiment with the Synthetic Biology Collection

Posted on 28/10/2016 by Chaitanya

The iGEM 2015 synthetic biology contest was an important one for us. It marked our first attempt at putting together a project from IISER Pune. But beyond the novelty for us, many things were different this time around (#igem2015). First … Continue reading →

Posted in Bacterial cell division, Bacterial continuous culture, Blog, Microscopy, Novel diagnostics, Research, Scientific computing, Synthetic biology, iGEM, iGEM, scientific_writing | Leave a comment