Maya Murdeshwar

Date
 
 : 19th Jun 2018
 
 
 Place
 
 : 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 due to the fish-eye lens used. Also, this was one of the first few observations, so we were still getting accustomed to handling the Foldscope.

Magnification Comparison

Date
 
 : 14th and 15th Sep 2018
 
 
 Place
 
 : Bijni, Assam
 
 
 Twinning Partners
 
 : Dr Sewali Pathak, Bijni College, Assam &amp; Dr Maya Murdeshwar and Dr Sujata Deshpande, St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai, Maharashtra.
 
 
 Number of Participants
 
 : 170 registered participants, several additional walk-in participants.
 
 
 
 Description
 
 :
 
 Foldscope PIs from St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai, Maharashtra, reached Bijni College in the small town of Bijni, Assam, to carry out a 2-day Twinning with the host PI, Dr Sewali Pathak, Asst Professor in the Dept of Zoology, Bijni College. After a long journey by plane and train, and an electric rickshaw, the PIs were welcomed into the Girls’ hostel with a hot cup of Assam special red tea.
 
 
 On 14th Sep 2018 morning, after an official opening ceremony, the Foldscope workshop began. There were 170 registered participants, and several other students and teachers from nearby villages (within a 5 km radius) just walked in when they heard about the workshop. Dr Maya and Dr Sujata, the resource persons for the day made a brief Powerpoint presentation on the history of Microscopy in general, and the invention of the Foldscope
 
 in particular, and the DBT-Prakash Lab Foldscope India Phase I research grant. This was followed a hands-on session of the participants assembling and handling their own Foldscopes. Water from a fish pond, leaf, flower pollen were some of the samples studied. The joy on the face of the students on finally viewing the sample through a microscope they built with their own hands was well worth the effort. They were thrilled to observe the samples and even helped each other with assembly and handling tips. A written feedback session was conducted and it was heartening to see that almost all students immensely enjoyed the one-day workshop and had their own ideas for use of the Foldscope, ranging from water testing, soil analysis to studying fish embryology and flower pollen grain diversity. The programme concluded with certificate distribution to all registered participants.
 
 
 48 Foldscopes were distributed to participants at Bijni College, Assam.

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 Twinning Partners (L-R): Dr Maya Murdeshwar, Dr Sujata Deshpande and Dr Sewali Pathak
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 Bijni College, Assam
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 Interaction with students
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 The next day, 15th Sep 2018, the visiting PIs were to go on a field visit and observe samples under the Foldscope. However, heavy rains, dark clouds and power outages marred the trip. They were also advised against stepping out on their own without a local escort in the sensitive areas. In the brief window of about 30 min when the rains ceased and the sun peeped out, the PIs collected samples from near the ladies hostel they were residing in and conducted a few Foldscope observations. They could not continue for long as it started to rain again and there was no power till very late in the night.
 
 
 The PIs returned to Mumbai the next day with happy memories of the Assam twinning event.

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NER Twinning: St. Xavier&#8217;s College (Autonomous), Mumbai &amp; Bijni College, Assam

Date
 
 : 1st &amp; 2nd Mar 2019
 
 
 Place
 
 : Mumbai, Maharashtra
 
 
 Twinning Partners
 
 : Dr Sewali Pathak, Bijni College, Assam &amp; Dr Maya Murdeshwar and Dr Sujata Deshpande, St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai, Maharashtra.
 
 
 Description
 
 :
 
 Dr Sewali Pathak visited Mumbai as part of the NER twinning project. Due to the semester-end exams in St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai, a workshop could not be conducted. However, over the two days, Dr Sujata Deshpande, and Ms Siddhi Parab and Ms Jennifer Tellis, MSc Life Sciences students, accompanied Dr Pathak on Foldscope field studies to the Maharashtra Nature Park, Dharavi, and the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai, respectively. (Dr Maya Murdeshwar could not accompany on the trips due to exam duties).

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 <img alt="Screenshot_2019-03-03-06-32-36" class="wp-image-170717 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="170717" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="170717" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Screenshot_2019-03-03-06-32-36" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=170717" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_170710/Screenshot_2019-03-03-06-32-36.png"/>
 <figcaption>
 SGNP: Water sample collection
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 <figure>
 <img alt="Screenshot_2019-03-03-06-32-43" class="wp-image-170718 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="170718" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="170718" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Screenshot_2019-03-03-06-32-43" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=170718" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_170710/Screenshot_2019-03-03-06-32-43.png"/>
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 SGNP: Viewing sample using Foldscope
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NER Twinning: Bijni College, Assam visits St. Xavier&#8217;s College, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Date:
 
 23rd Nov 2018
 
 
 Place:
 
 Malabar Hill, Mumbai
 
 
 Participants:
 
 Aziz, Siddhi, Jennifer and Maya
 
 
 Description:
 
 
 The 4 of us enthusiastically went up to Maharashtra Nature Park (MNP) today morning, only to find it shut on occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti. The only other park that would be open would be the Malabar Hill Park in South Mumbai. So we decided to go here for our field visit. It was a fun filled visit with us studying soil and water samples, and flowers (
 
 Cessalpinia gillisei
 
 petals, pollen sac, pollens) from the garden. We had several people asking us about the Foldscope and trying it out themselves.

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 <img alt="Malabar-Cessalpinia" class="wp-image-186912 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="186912" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="186912" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Malabar-Cessalpinia" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=186912" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_186911/Malabar-Cessalpinia.png"/>
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 Cessalpinia gilliesia
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 <img alt="Malabar-Petal" class="wp-image-186913 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="186913" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="186913" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Malabar-Petal" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=186913" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_186911/Malabar-Petal.png"/>
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 Petal pigment
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 <figure>
 <img alt="20181123_114114_HDR" class="wp-image-186920 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="186920" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="186920" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1542973274","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.039998","title":"","orientation":"6"}' data-image-title="20181123_114114_HDR" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=186920" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_186911/20181123_114114_HDR.jpg"/>
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 Cessalpinia stamen section
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 <img alt="Malabar-Pollensac1" class="wp-image-186918 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="186918" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="186918" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Malabar-Pollensac1" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=186918" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_186911/Malabar-Pollensac1.png"/>
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 Pollen sac and pollen grains-1
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 <img alt="Malabar-Pollen1" class="wp-image-186914 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="186914" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="186914" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Malabar-Pollen1" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=186914" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_186911/Malabar-Pollen1.png"/>
 <figcaption>
 Pollen grains with pollen sac-1
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 <figure>
 <img alt="Malabar-Pollen2" class="wp-image-186915 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="186915" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="186915" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Malabar-Pollen2" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=186915" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_186911/Malabar-Pollen2.png"/>
 <figcaption>
 Pollen grains with pollen sac-2
 </figcaption>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="Malabar-pollen4" class="wp-image-186917 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="186917" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="186917" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Malabar-pollen4" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=186917" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_186911/Malabar-pollen4.png"/>
 <figcaption>
 Pollen grains with pollen sac-3
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 <img alt="Malabar-pollen3" class="wp-image-186916 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="186916" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="186916" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Malabar-pollen3" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=186916" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_186911/Malabar-pollen3.png"/>
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 Pollen grains with pollen sac-2
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 <img alt="pollen grain 11" class="wp-image-186921 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="186921" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="186921" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1542972005","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.039998","title":"","orientation":"6"}' data-image-title="pollen grain 11" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=186921" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_186911/pollen-grain-11.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Pollen grains – zoomed
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 <figure>
 <img alt="20181123_112500_HDR" class="wp-image-186919 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="186919" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="186919" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1542972300","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="20181123_112500_HDR" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=186919" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_186911/20181123_112500_HDR.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Jennifer, Aziz and Siddhi carrying out soil and water sample analysis using HiMedia kits
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Maya Murdeshwar

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