Merritt Microscopy

04/16/2023

MMP alum and former instructor Peter Werner will be presenting a talk on "Mushrooms of Ireland" in Berkeley this coming Wednesday 4/19 and again in a few weeks in Redwood City. Peter lived in Ireland for several years during and after earning his MSc degree in Microscopy and Imaging at University of Galway and was very active in local mycology while living there.

Talk description and details:

Ireland is blessed with an abundance of rainfall and a diversity of habitat that give the Emerald Isle a rich and diverse abundance of mycota. This presentation will discuss the mushrooms found in the woodlands, demesnes, burrens, grasslands, and heaths of Ireland and the burgeoning mycological milieu in Ireland today.

First talk: Bay Area Mycological Society, Berkeley, Wed, April 19
1002 Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
April 19, 2023, Wednesday, 7:30 – 9:30 pm
https://goo.gl/maps/5T1xAjrc5QXe97xz7
http://bayareamushrooms.org/calendar.html

Second talk: Peninsula Mycological Circle, Redwood City, Tu, May 2
Redwood City Downtown Public Library, 2nd floor, Community Room, 1044 Middlefield Rd, Redwood City, CA 94063
May 2, 2023, Tuesday, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
https://goo.gl/maps/2TXF9XZmDWrvwZms6

05/22/2020

Nikon Instruments Inc. today unveiled the judges for the 2020 Nikon Small World photomicrography and Small World in Motion video competitions, which will be held for the first time virtually June…

04/20/2020

If you've ever gotten a really good image of a soil organism, consider entering it in this competition!

06/18/2019

CONGRATULATIONS Tobey Colston!

Toby passed her qual exams!!! She’s in her second year in the MCB dept. at UCB, on track to get her PhD.

Tobey is a brilliant student who after raising children while traveling with her Marine husband, returned to school first at Laney College, then in the Merritt College Program Merritt Microscopy (where she was known as “superwoman”), then she became a MMP program assistant, led students in field studies in Costa Rica, and organized countless outreach activities, went on to get her masters degree at Touro, was a beloved teacher in the and biology departments at , while getting a second Masters at CSUEB and doing more research internships, before going on to get her PhD.

Quals are one of the most difficult exams ever concocted: armed with just your brains, determination and a few years of intensive self-directed study, you face off with a panel of old Berkeley professors who can ask you pretty much anything about all of . If you don’t pass you can’t continue your PhD, and they don’t pass everyone.

As an African American, from , she is also making a significant dent in diversifying Cal where only 3% of grad students are African American. She is studying novel ways to approach curing .

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College of Alameda

05/18/2019

Congratulations to Merritt College Biosciences- Histotechnology, Microscopy, Genomics instructor, Theresa Halula, for being accepted to attend the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) 2019 Short Course in Genomics.

She is one of 30 instructors selected to attend the course.
👏🏾👏🏼👏🏽👏🏿👏🏻

04/12/2019

Join Merritt Bioscience Department this Saturday, 4/13, from 11-3, for BioFest, and help us celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Microscopy Program & 5th Anniversary of the Histotechnology Program! Speakers Include: Ariel Waldman, Casey Harper, Anthony Di Franco, and Derek Leong

Speaker Schedule for BioFest this Saturday, 4/13:

11:00 AM Derek Leong, Optical Microscopy Method Gives High-Resolution Image to the Angstrom

11:30 AM Casey Harper, Wild Oyster Project

12:00 PM Anthony Di Franco, Open Insulin Project

1:00 PM Ariel Waldman, Microprobes in the Ice of Antarctica

04/04/2019

A really good and very readible review article on Brainbow. Strongly recommended if you want to better undersand how this fluorescent protein application actually works, and what makes Brainbow not just a source of amazing pictures, but a genuine breakthrough in how we're able to image cell networks, complex tissues, and developmental biology.

Brainbow is a genetic cell-labeling technique where hundreds of different hues can be generated by stochastic and combinatorial expression of a few spectrally distinct fluorescent proteins. Unique color profiles can be used as cellular identification tags for multiple applications such as tracing ax...

03/18/2019

JOIN US FOR THE SPRING 2019 EM OPEN HOUSE!
THURSDAY APRIL 11 FROM 1:00-6:00PM
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!
COME SEE WHAT OUR STUDENTS DO!!!!
Need additional information? (209) 954-5246

01/18/2019

Spring 2019 Courses in Natural History & Sustainability (Most classes start January 22; Short-term classes start later, see below.) Enrollment is now open! Follow the steps to apply and/or enro…

11/30/2018

Yet another reason to love the teaching at Merritt College!

What's the value of dusty old natural history in the modern world? More than you might think, says Brad Balukjian.