BI368 Advanced Light Microscopy Class Students Microscopy Image Collection
The micrographs below showcase a variety of plant and animal samples captured by students
in the BI368 Advanced Light Microscopy class. These images were acquired using different
microscopy techniques available at the SMMIC, including brightfield, darkfield, modular
contrast, phase contrast, polarizing, Differential Interference Contrast (DIC), fluorescence,
and confocal laser scanning microscopy. Each technique highlights different structural
or biochemical features of the specimens, demonstrating the power and versatility
of modern light microscopy in biological imaging.

Differential interference contrast microscope image of Marine plankton by Lex Zacheis
‘26

Confocal laser scanning microscope image of Penium, cell wall (green) and chloroplast
(purple) by Kieran Jenkins ‘26

Confocal laser scanning microscope image of Mouse Kidney membrane (red), actin filament(green),
Nuclei(blue) by KieranJenkins ‘26

Confocal laser scanning microscope image of sheep muscle, nuclei (blue), myosin I
(yellow), and myosin II (magenta) by Declan Keefe ‘26

Polarized light microscope image o Ground Human Bone by Declan Keefe ‘26

Fluorescent microscope image of Closterium nuclei (green) by Lex Zacheis ‘26

Fluorescent microscope image of Closterium cellwall (blue) and chloroplast (red) by
Lex Zacheis ‘26

Differential interference contrast microscope image of Sourdough Yeast by Liam Babitz
‘26

Fluorescent microscope image of cosmarium starch grain (blue) by Liam Babitz ‘26

Bright field microscope image of Squash Young Fruit by Jadon Baer ‘26

Polarized light microscope image of linen fiber by Lex Zacheis ‘26

Dark field microscope image of Plankton by Liam Babitz ‘26

confocal laser scanning microscope image of BPAE cells, Nuclei (blue), Actin filament
(green) and Mitotracker (red) by Declan Keefe ‘26

Darkfield microscope of Dermancentor variabilis by Kieran Jenkins ‘26

Polarized Microscope image of Corn starch(with compensator) by Tony bowei Wang ‘26

Modular contrast microscope of Granita isolated spicules by Lex Zacheis ‘26

Polarized light microscope image of Tourmaline White Mica by Jadon Baer ‘26

Fluorescence Microscope image of Nitella ( Autofluorescence) by A J Dean ‘26

Water flea under Darkfield microscopy by Gabriel Mahady’24

Confocal laser scanning microscopy image of a mouse kidney tissue by Alec Llerena’24

Fluorescent microscopy image of Pediastrum with labeled nuclei by Gabriel Mahady’24

Modular contrast microscopy image of Radiolaria by Stuart Malone’26

Polarized light microscopy image of pear tissue with full wave compensator by Abigale
Glasman’26

Phase contrast microscopy image of Pediastrum by Gabriel Mahady’24

Brightfield light microscopy image of Spirogyra by Gabriel Mahady’24

Salt crystals under darkfield microscope by Stuart Malone’26

Confocal laser scanning microscopy image of sheep muscle tissue with labeled nuclei,
myosin and laminin by Stuart Malone’26

Brightfield microscopy image of dictydium by Sara Goldstein’24

Polarized light microscopy image of potato starch grains by Allison Conwell’24

Polarizing microscopy image of dogfish placoid scales with a full wave compensator
by Abigale Glasman’26

Confocal laser scanning microscope image of human foreskin fibroblast cells by Stuart
Malone’26

Bright field image of ctenoid scale by Sara Goldstein’24

Polarizing microscopy image of tilia stem by Abigale Glasman’ 26