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  • An introduction to laboratory research: students progress from following a protocol to designing and carrying out independent projects
  • Students learn basic concepts of cell biology through microscopic examination of living cells
  • Techniques:
    • cell culture 
    • light microscopy 
    • fluorescence probes and fluorescence microscopy
    • digital image processing
    • time lapse microscopy
    • cell transfection
    • confocal microscopy
    • flow cytometry



GFPlifeact expressed in cells localizes 

to the F-actin peripheral cytoskeleton


Movies created by students