Re: looking for "beautiful" sample

Posted by Carol Bayles on
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Even easier than pollen is a leaf.  Just grab one from any plant. Cut a small piece and put it under a coverslip.  Try to eliminate air pockets.  Plants have marvelous autofluorescence.
Carol

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From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Alessandro Esposito
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 6:10 AM
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Subject: looking for "beautiful" sample

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Dear all,
    here it is, a silly question. I wish to demonstrate the capabilities of
our new system that can read-out fluorescence lifetime, anisotropy and
spectra wih TPE. I have plenty of information-rich images, either images
from tissue or fluorescent proteins, but I would like to prepare an
eye-catching set of images.

I am a bit bored to use Convallaria... any suggestion for a fluorescent or
autofluorescent sample tha could provide a relative complex emission that
could look good?

Cheers,

Alessandro