Powerful new 3D electron microscope to arrive in spring

Marisa Otegui and others win NSF funding for the new shared resource

Botany's Marisa Otegui and researchers from many departments across campus have joined forces to win funding from the NSF for a powerful new electron microscope that can produce high-resolution three-dimensional images. The microscope, which will be a shared resource for the campus, allows researchers to visualize cellular structures that would be difficult to capture with a standard two-dimensional electron microscope.

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This image produced by a three-dimensional electron microscope of a cell from a corn kernel helped UW–Madison botanist Marisa Otegui find important signaling proteins outside the parts of the cell with which they are usually associated