Seeing Fireworks in the MBL's Advanced Research Courses

It's the season when the MBL's Twitter feed is bursting with scientific images and movies that students and faculty are generating in the Advanced Research Courses. Many of these amazing images are possible due to the generous loan of top-shelf equipment from partnering vendors. Below are just a few examples. Follow along @MBLScience to keep up!

The Physiology Course offers these microscopy fireworks:

Great start at the MBL physiology course @MBLScience. Here's a video of some beautiful #microbes growing in minimal medium under a @NikonUSA wide-field microscope. Segmented microcolonies are in outlined in blue. pic.twitter.com/0mwSFJ8KtZ

— Griffin Chure (@gdchure) June 17, 2018

Downstairs in Neural Systems & Behavior, the students are not only imaging neurons, but listening to them:

If you listen closely you can hear an action potential! 👂@MBLScience @grassfoundation pic.twitter.com/2T8Vh7zpSJ

— NS&B (@NSB_MBL) June 6, 2018