Exploring!
Date: 20th Jun 2018Place: Life Science Lab, St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), MumbaiDescription: My first few Foldscope images! Exploring was fun! I looked at a plant leaf that I picked on my way to college, some soil from the college garden and a run-away thread from my cotton dress. Observations:The leaf section was too thick and…
Magnification Comparison
Date: 19th Jun 2018Place: Life Science Lab, St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai Description: The magnification of the assembled Foldscope (140X) was compared with that of the standard compound light microscope (10X and 40X lenses). Permanent slides were viewed. A slight aberration was observed at the edges of the field of view of the Foldscope possibly…
Garlic peel under foldscope.
We can easily see the cells of garlic. The peel was not so dry. I took a peel and observed it under a foldscope.
Workshop on Assembly and applications of Foldscope as research and educational tools at Daranggiri HS School, Daranggiri
A workshop was organised at Daranggiri Higher Secondary School, Daranggiri of Goalpara district on 13th September, 2019. A total of 85 students along with the teachers of the school were attended in the workshop. They learned how to assemble the various parts of the foldscope along with its various applications. Students observed different specimens on…
Vortex generated by cilia beating of Vorticella
Vorticella is a suspension-feeding ciliate and has drawn the attention of scientists since Anthony van Leeuwenhoek first described its unique motility. Biological motors of microorganisms can be mimicked in microsystems to reduce the overall size of devices. Cilia beating has been envisaged as a potential strategy for inducing fluid flow and mixing in microsystems. The…
Colpidium colpoda dining on bacteria
Colpidium colpoda are free-living ciliates commonly found in many freshwater environments including streams, rivers, lakes and ponds across the Globe. I collected some dried mosses from a tree and hydrated it by adding some water and observed this sample after one day of hydration. One can see the Colpidium feasting on bacterial cells.
Specie of Rotifers
I took some moss and put it in water for a day and observed it under a foldscope and I found this.
Second Phase of Twin programme of Beldoba J school with collegiate school.
Twining programme last phase OUR PROJECT THEME IS FRESH WATER ZOOPLANKTON. SO WE SHARED OUR KNOWLEDGE WITH COLLEGIATE SCHOOL STUDENTS. DISCUSSION SESSION DURING TWINING PROGRAMME. WATCHING ZOOPLANKTONS.
Field visit@ ICAR, Meghalaya, samples collection by Miranda House, DU , PI @ Co-PI with Senior scientist Krishnappa
Conducted Training Programme on Foldscope at Assam Agricultural University,Jorhat , India on 12.09.19
The Group Seeing through Foldscope Participants
Please help me to identify
I found it in rain water. It moves slow
comparing different petals of the same pea flower; trichomes & pigments
I was trying to make a slide of the pollen of a pea flower, but since the anthers hadn’t dehisced, I couldn’t do so. Then I thought about making the slide of the petals of the flower. There are three different types of petals of the pea flower which has vexillary aestivation: the large standard…
Workshop for Zoology students on Foldscope
Students of MSc Zoology, Barkatulla University, bhopal have experienced the microscopic view under Foldscope. They are working on Mosquitoes in their dissertation and have tried their larva and adult mosquito slides under foldscope.
Wild Turkey feather
This bird almost became the national bird of the United States, and has a range over much of North America. It is the inspiration for domestic turkey and a famous Bourbon of the same name. Here is a look at the barbs and hooks in a dark and light area of the feather.
Flower observation of Pueraria montana using foldscope
Observation of Pueraria montana pollen viability, pollen staining, stigma, ovary, petals and flower pollinator under foldscope climber which is collected from Mizoram university.
A foldscope in a geocache – San Francisco
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a mobile device to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. So with my super-user friend @babo989 we decided to put a foldscope in a geocache hoping the people will us it, post discoveries…
Living School Days With Foldscope
A well-known school science experiment was great fun to perform with foldscope.Foldscope makes it easier.
Desmids & Cyanophycean Species
These are some desmids and cyanophycean algae recorded using foldscope as research tool. This is a part of our unpublished works on Cyanophyceae and Desmids.