Sujata Deshpande

Date
 
 : 23rd Jan 2019
 
 
 Place
 
 : Dept of Microbiology, Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai
 
 
 Number of participants
 
 : 50 FYBSc Biological Science students
 
 
 Description
 
 :
 
 I conducted a workshop on ‘Assembly of Foldscope and Hands-on Training’ at the Department of Microbiology, Ruia College, on 23rd Jan 2019, from 1.00 to 4.00 pm. This workshop was a part of DBT Foldscope project being done my Dr. Maya Murdeshwar and myself. Fifty students of FY biological sciences attended the workshop and five senior students helped in demonstration. The students learnt how to assemble the paper microscope – Foldscope and they viewed various permanent and freshly prepared wet and dry samples through the Foldscope. Certificates were distributed to all participants and the senior students who assisted in the workshop.

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 FYBSc students using the Foldscope
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 Dr Sujata Deshpande with the senior students who assisted her in conducting the workshop
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 Group photograph
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Outreach#2: Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai

Date
 
 : 3rd Apr 2019
 
 
 Place
 
 : Geology Postgraduate Lab, St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai
 
 
 Number of participants
 
 : 20
 
 
 Description
 
 :
 
 After almost an year of working on the DBT – Prakash Lab India Foldscope Phase 1 project, we managed to conduct a Foldscope workshop on our home ground at St Xavier’s. The students had got to work with the Foldscope at various points in their regular practicals or as part of the Honours project, but the teachers were all very curious about it. So, when we finally got down to organizing the session, we had participation from not just from biological science teachers (Botany, Life Science &amp; Biochemistry, Zoology), but also those from Geology, Chemistry, Statistics, Mathematics and even Mass Media, Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology! Right at the outset, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to our Principal, Dr Rajendra Shinde, and Vice Principal (Science), Dr Hrishikesh Samant, for extending their cooperation and constant encouragement in all our ventures, Foldscope and otherwise. Special thanks are due to Dr Samant for loan of the Geology post graduate lab for conducting the workshop and for the highlight of the session – the polarizer effect with the Foldscope.


 Despite the end semester paper corrections going on, all teachers patiently sat through and thoroughly enjoyed the session. As one of them said, “It reminds me of my school days, playing with paper, origami and childhood curiosity!” The teachers assembled the Foldscope and prepared their own slides (a first for many after their school days) of leaf, flower, water and mineral samples. With childlike enthusiasm they ooh-ed and aah-ed as they viewed their samples through the Foldscope. The loudest WOW! was elicited for Dr Samant who whisked out a small sheet of polarizing paper and held it against the Foldscope lens to turn a bland Pyroxene (augite) crystal into a colourful rainbow! The session ended on a very joyous note with the exam correction stress all gone and certificates and Foldscope kits distributed to the participants.
 
 
 Special thanks to Siddhi and Infant, students of the Life Science dept, for assisting with the workshop.

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 The Xavier’s Foldscope Team (L-R): Infant, Sujata, Maya, Siddhi
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 Presentation on the history of microscopy and the Foldscope
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 Assembling the Foldscope
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 Attentive participants
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 Assembling the Foldscope
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 All smiles 🙂
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 All smiles 🙂
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 Preparing slides
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 Viewing the slides
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 Onion peel cells
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 Dr Samant experimenting with the polarizer filter
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 Explaining the use of the polarizer
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 Pyroxene crystal under Foldscope
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 Pyroxene crystal under Foldscope with polarizer
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 Pyroxene crystal under Foldscope with polarizer
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Outreach#5: St Xavier&#8217;s College (Autonomous), Mumbai

Date
 
 : 24th Oct 2018
 
 
 Place
 
 : Maharashtra Nature Park (MNP), Dharavi, Mumbai
 
 
 Description
 
 :
 
 After receiving the written permission to carry out field studies in the MNP, we paid our first visit in order to look around and choose the study sites (ecological niche). We spent a plesant afternoon walking around the park and narrowed down on the Lotus Pond, Rain water harvesting pond and the Bamboo grove to study water and soil samples respectively. We checked with the authorities that no pesticides etc were added into the water bodies that might adversely affect our biodiversity observation studies.


 The students made a couple of slides with fallen fig fruits and we observed these under the Foldscope.

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 Maya, Aziz, Jennifer, Siddhi and Sujata at MNP, Mumbai
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 Site 2: Bamboo groove
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 <img alt="IMG_20181024_123406151" class="wp-image-171117 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171117" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171117" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"MotoG3","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1540384446","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.64","iso":"250","shutter_speed":"0.03001","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20181024_123406151" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171117" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171099/IMG_20181024_123406151.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Wild fig cover
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 <figure>
 <img alt="IMG_20181024_123456439_HDR" class="wp-image-171118 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171118" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171118" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"MotoG3","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1540384496","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.64","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.00497","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20181024_123456439_HDR" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171118" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171099/IMG_20181024_123456439_HDR.jpg"/>
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 Wild fig seeds
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MNP Visit#1

Date
 
 : 1st Dec 2018
 
 
 Place
 
 : Maharashtra Nature Park, Dharavi, Mumbai
 
 
 Description
 
 : On our second visit to MNP, we observed the biodiversity in the Water Lily Pond. Water was collected from the surface and from a depth of 10 cm below the surface and analyzed using the Foldscope. No organisms were observed in the surface water. We concluded that this might be due to the heating by the sun rays. From a depth of 10 cm below the surface we observed certain algae and a large protist with a pulsating heart/ gut system.

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 <img alt="20181201_103702_HDR" class="wp-image-171232 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171232" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171232" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1543660622","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.002024","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="20181201_103702_HDR" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171232" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171226/20181201_103702_HDR-1.jpg"/>
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 Study Site: Water Lily Pond
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 <figure>
 <img alt="20181201_092613_HDR" class="wp-image-171227 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171227" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171227" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1543656373","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.00377","title":"","orientation":"6"}' data-image-title="20181201_092613_HDR" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171227" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171226/20181201_092613_HDR.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Water sample collection
 </figcaption>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="20181201_093345_HDR" class="wp-image-171228 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171228" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171228" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1543656825","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="20181201_093345_HDR" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171228" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171226/20181201_093345_HDR.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 The Field Study kit put together by us
 </figcaption>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="20181201_100036_HDR" class="wp-image-171242 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171242" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171242" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1543658436","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.029999","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="20181201_100036_HDR" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171242" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171226/20181201_100036_HDR-3.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Unidentified protist (zoom on internal organ)
 </figcaption>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="20181201_215557_HDR" class="wp-image-171243 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171243" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171243" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1543701357","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.006161","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="20181201_215557_HDR" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171243" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171226/20181201_215557_HDR-4.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Algal species
 </figcaption>
 </figure>
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</ul>

MNP Visit#2

Date
 
 : 13th Dec 2018
 
 
 Place
 
 : Maharashtra Nature Park, Dharavi, Mumbai
 
 
 Description
 
 : Today we analysed lily pond water, soil sample and moss that had grown on a stone.

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 <img alt="s4" class="wp-image-171251 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171251" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171251" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1544775958","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.039998","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="s4" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171251" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171247/s4.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Clods of soil
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 <img alt="S1" class="wp-image-171249 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171249" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171249" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1544776258","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.039998","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="S1" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171249" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171247/S1.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Wooden debris/ root sample?
 </figcaption>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="s5" class="wp-image-171252 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171252" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171252" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1544776213","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.039998","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="s5" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171252" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171247/s5.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Decomposed organic matter
 </figcaption>
 </figure>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="s2" class="wp-image-171250 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171250" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171250" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1544776364","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.039998","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="s2" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171250" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171247/s2.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 unidentified matter
 </figcaption>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="water from pond (depth 10cm) zoom" class="wp-image-171253 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171253" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171253" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1544720651","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.003715","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="water from pond (depth 10cm) zoom" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171253" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171247/water-from-pond-depth-10cm-zoom.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Pond water: Oscillatoria and Macrothrix
 </figcaption>
 </figure>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="20181213_093707" class="wp-image-171254 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171254" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171254" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"1.9","credit":"","camera":"SM-C900F","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1544693827","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.6","iso":"40","shutter_speed":"0.0098039215686275","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="20181213_093707" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171254" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171247/20181213_093707.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Collecting Moss sample
 </figcaption>
 </figure>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="moss" class="wp-image-171255 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="171255" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="171255" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"LM-Q610.FGN","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1544775228","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="moss" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=171255" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_171247/moss-1.jpg"/>
 <figcaption>
 Moss sample under Foldscope
 </figcaption>
 </figure>
 </li>
</ul>

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