What are the Pictures?
scarlet locoweed thumbnail Scarlet locoweed from the northern Owens Valley, California Phacelia nashiana thumbnail Former graduate student Debra Hansen and her major professor Dr. Bob Patterson are undertaking a phylogenetic study of the rare California native Phacelia nashiana and its relatives.
ocean sampling thumbnail Dr. Ed Carpenter and his students sample marine plankton aboard a research vessel in the Caribbean.
northern Thailand thumbnail Dr. Dennis Desjardin conducts his research on the fungi of southeast Asia at this field station in northern Thailand.
coral reef thumbnail A coral reef in Papua New Guinea where Dr. Gary Williams studies systematics of octocorals.
WAK-1 in leaf thumbnail Dr. Zheng-Hui He's research on WAK1 protein is localized on the cell surface as indicated by the green color. Chloroplasts are in orange.
Confocal images of transverse section through a chick embryo studied in Dr. Laura Burrus' lab. NCAM is labeled green while Pax-7, a transcription factor involved in neural tube & somite development is labeled red. Images taken by Lisa Galli.
sunburst bacteria thumbnail From Dr. Leticia Marquez-Magaña's lab, an image of sunburst morphotype displayed by the soil bacterium, Paenibacillus, on solid agar plates demonstrating highly cooperative movement of individual bacterial cells to generate a complex pattern.
gerbil thumbnail Dr. Jan Randall's behavior research involves this great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus), here giving an alarm call to warn family members of a predator.
ecdysis thumbnail This image from Dr. Megumi Fuse's lab showing staining in the tobacco hornworm caterpillar nervous system, using a double-labelling technique to identify a peptide (FMRFamide - red) and a second messenger (cGMP - green). The image was compiled using laser confocal microscopy.
Witsenia thumbnail A rare Witsenia maura from South Africa studied by greenhouse manager Martin Grantham, a specialist in the woody Iridaceae.
swirl bacteria thumbnail From Dr. Leticia Marquez-Magaña's lab, microscopic detail of the sunburst morphotype of Paenibacillus depicting organized movement of individual cells to form a vortex at the edge of the developing colony. Linanthus maculatus thumbnail Linanthus maculatus, with some of the smaller flowers in California, growing in Joshua Tree National Park.
Linanthus dichotomus thumbnail Former graduate student Sally Chess, working in Dr. Gretchen LeBuhn's lab, is studying floral scent variation between day- and night-blooming populations of Linanthus dichotomus. diving in kelp forest thumbnail Former grad student Bill Robbins, a graduate of Dr. Ralph Larson's lab, collecting samples in a California kelp bed.
African tree frogs are the research specialty of CAS Professor Bob Drewes. An image of microarray analysis for Arabidopsis gene expression is shown. From Dr. Zheng-Hui He's lab.
Dr. Maureen Whalen and co-workers study disease resistance in rice.