After some protracted battle with stubborn components, we have finally managed to obtain first images from our single-plane illumination microscope, which we have been building for some time. The image on the left is a 100 um green fluorescent bead from our “phantom sample” (beads embedded in transparent plastic). The resolution isn’t great yet but we hope we can substantially improve it over the next weeks.
Dioscuri Centre for Physics and Chemistry of Bacteria 