Building a Scanning PALM Microscope
The Teams
Optical microscopy requires highly interdisciplinary expertise: chemistry to create fluorophores; physics to design the optics; mathematics to model the fluorescent signal; engineering to incorporate the hardware and the software; and computer science to develop the software to analyze the fluorescent signal. Students were selected as the best in their major. Many applied, few were chosen:
Figure 1: Students in Advanced Microscopy. From left to right: Dan Siddoway (Math), Alek Emery (Physics), Tyler Soelberg (Physics), Brandon Warner (Math), Jason Martineau (Math & Physics), Ganghun Kim (Computer Engineering), Steven Miller (Computer Science/Engineering, Math), Jenna Whippen (Biology / Chemistry), Carl Ebeling (TA, graduate student, Physics). Not shown Mike Query (Electrical Engineering), Jason Whetman (Business Administration). Professors: Erik Jorgensen (Biology), Jordan Gerton (Physics), Rajesh Menon (Electrical Engineering).
