Fungipod
Collaborator Aaron Neumann from the University of New Mexico is studying fungipods from human dendritic cells that attach to yeast. The image above shows a combination of three different fluorophores that together show the behavior. A green yeast is sitting on top of the cell membrane (transparent red) with three fungipods attached to it. The fungipods are very dense in actin (blue).
ImageSurfer clarifies cilia locations
The image above shows one frame from a stack of images taken of a human lung epithelial cell culture. The well-separated spots were thought to be cross sections through cilia sticking out the tops of cells. There are some bright spots on the labeled cells and others (near the left of the image) that were thought to be above cells.
The ImageSurfer image shown below revealed that they were in fact isolated blobs of dye that were outside of the cells.
