A red bento box belonging to the Yomitan Museum

Installation of the new MRI scanner at OIST.

The Titan Krios Transmission Electron Microscope

Toshio Sasaki, who works in the Biology Resources Section at OIST, used a Focused Ion Beam/Scanning Electron Microscope to carve a series of OIST logos onto a grain of sugar and then image them. The top image shows the carved sugar grain near other sugar grains for scale. The bottom image shows a close up of the logos. The largest logo is 200 micrometers wide, and the smallest is 12.5 micrometers wide.

Toshio Sasaki removes the sample from the FIB/SEM machine and replaces it with a cartridge used to recalibrate the microscope. The cartridge contains different materials, which will each refract an electron in a particular direction and at a particular speed. The FIB/SEM measures these electrons and adjusts its detection system accordingly.

Spear-shaped viruses attack a spherical microbe. The microbe is a dead ARMAN, and the viruses represent at least two different types of virus. This image is a slice from a 3D cryo-ET reconstruction of an acid mine drainage biofilm region produced by Dr. Luis R. Comolli, guest editor of Frontiers in Microbiology.