• Question: in the lab, what type of microscope do you use mostly?

    Asked by is to Aaron, Ananthi, Ashley, Christopher, Emma, Lea on 11 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Emma Stevenson

      Emma Stevenson answered on 11 Nov 2017:

      For my work I use a regular light microscope with 3 magnification lenses.

    • Photo: Ananthi Ramachandran

      Ananthi Ramachandran answered on 12 Nov 2017:

      I mainly use a light microscope to look at the gut cells that I work with. But others in my lab use the giant TEM (transmission electron microscope) to look at bacteriophages (the viruses we work with) as they cannot be seen with light microscopes!

    • Photo: Aaron Brown

      Aaron Brown answered on 12 Nov 2017:

      I just tend to use a standard light microscope, in the future I’ll be using a really special one called a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), they’re super expensive

    • Photo: Ashley Otter

      Ashley Otter answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      I sometimes use a standard microscope, just to check my macrophages are growing well and don’t have any contamination with anything else

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