Connected on 2010-06-03 15:00:00 from San Francisco, CA, US
- 2:51pm
- Bugscope Team making presets for today's session
- 2:59pm
- 3:06pm
- Bugscope Team welcome!
- Bugscope Team hi ms. susie, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team this is the dust you sent
- Bugscope Team we can see lots of fibers, of course
- Bugscope Team some of them are fungal hyphae -- strands of fungus
- Bugscope Team this looks like one of the spore-producing bodies
- Teacher Hi Scot. We are just getting logged in...
- Teacher It will take a few mins...
- Bugscope Team cool, we are ready anytime
- Bugscope Team okay
- Teacher How many times magnified is this?
- 3:11pm
- Guest does they have an animal on the branch
- Guest what is this
Bugscope Team this is a strand of hair, but we are not sure what the hair comes from
- Guest how much dust is there?
Bugscope Team there is dust all over the place, everywhere, on everything. it's just small so we normally don't notice it
- Bugscope Team this is 2569x
- Bugscope Team hi students, welcome to bugscope!
- Guest how much dust is there
- 3:17pm
- Student what part is fungus?
- Bugscope Team if you click on the actual micron bar, on the screen, you will get a list of parameters from the 'scope
- Student how can u see dust :)
- Student fjl;shytsytry
- Bugscope Team the flat looking fibers we see now are fungus
- Guest how can you see dust
Bugscope Team well, you can see dust in a microscope pretty easily. but with the naked eye, you can't see individual dust granules, although when dust bunches up you can see it.
- Student urjj
- Student hey
- Student euum
- Guest what kind of fungus is it
Bugscope Team we don't know much about it because we don't know where it came from
- Bugscope Team the sample is about a cm long and a little narrower than that
- Student ululuk
- Student stop dude
- Bugscope Team but we have seen fungus before, and it looks like this
- Guest what can this stuff do to people and animals?
Bugscope Team it can make them sneeze, and some people might be allergic to it
- Guest where did you get the fungus
- Guest cool
- Guest how can u see dust
- Student what is this?
Bugscope Team this is hair from an unknown organism
- Student can you eat it
- Teacher Did you receive our samples?
Bugscope Team yep, cate made the sample today, from what you sent us
- Student it looks like sticks
- Guest can the fungus on the screen hurt humans
Bugscope Team not likely
- Student what is that
- Student hey scot do this stuff come from dirt or what :)
Bugscope Team sorry I had to help someone with the evaporator
- Guest what is wrong with the thing of you?
- Guest what are the other things around the fungus
Bugscope Team hairs mostly
- Student are these diffrent type of plants or fungus?
- Guest how many fungi are there
- 3:22pm
- Student what lives in this?
Bugscope Team well, i'm not sure, maybe a dust mite?
- Guest wat is this stuff
Bugscope Team this is a collection of hair
- Guest what can this stuff do to people?
- Student hello scot hello?
- Student o thanks alex
- Student it looks like bags
- Guest wat is in this stuff
- Guest what are dust mites
Bugscope Team dust mites are usually found in human habitats, they feed off of dead human skin particles and things like that, that's why you'll often find them in a pile of dust, because there's also human skin particles in there as well.
- Student isnt this dangours?
Bugscope Team if it had really bad fungus in it and you breathed it perhaps it could be bad
- Guest canyou die of this stuff?
Bugscope Team no it's more annoying
- Bugscope Team this is what collects when there are little breezes and eventually all of the loose hair and fiberlike things merge together
- Student k thx scot
- Guest are those the dust mites
Bugscope Team we haven't seen any dustmites yet
- Guest wat is the unknown orginisam
- Student It looks like a stik.
Bugscope Team sure does, bugs look really weird under an electron microscope, don't they?
- Student ---that is trees
- Student is there life in thier
Bugscope Team there are spores in there, in some places, that will make more fungus
- Bugscope Team the problem with seeing dustmites is that they are soft-bodied and shrivel up when they die
- Student ?
- Student http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/axis_cache/current_image.php?expireCacheWith=1275596722611
- Guest does this fungus hurt animals
- Student thanks scot
- Bugscope Team fungus is all around us, or the spores are. one thing that helps them grow is moisture, and that is what is lacking here
- Student hey scot do things or bugs live in the fungus
Bugscope Team they might live among or with the fungus -- they are part of what makes things naturally decay, or rot
- Guest what are those lines on the cd
Bugscope Team this is a piece of the CD yes, highly amplified
- Guest hi can u tell me more about this plant or this
Bugscope Team this now is part of the film on the record surface of the CD
- Guest dick
- 3:27pm
- Student look like stik
- Bugscope Team magnified i mean
- Student Is it hair scot
Bugscope Team that was not hair, but we think this is
- Student It looks like a lage.
- Bugscope Team this is super interesting, and in part that is because we don't understand it
- Guest what is that thing that you magnified
- Student scot what type of things are these?
- Student scot is that pic water ?:)
Bugscope Team if we were to see water in the microscope it would look solid
- Bugscope Team it looks to us like some kind of pet hair, and it is broken open, like it has split ends from being combed too much
- Guest Scot wat is this
- Student Thank scot
- Teacher We would like to switch to the gut of a fava bean
Bugscope Team can you try clicking on the preset? does it work for you?
- Guest have you figured out what the fungus is called
Bugscope Team angel I am sorry we are not good at recognizing types of fungus this way
- Student k thx
- Guest I wonder y they have so much dust
- Bugscope Team ms. susie, i just switched control to your new login, so you should have control again
- Student scot have you ever seen these things?
Bugscope Team Rogelio the round things look like starch granules
- Guest this is nasty
- Student http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/axis_cache/current_image.php?expireCacheWith=1275597077840
- Student it looks like a rop
- Bugscope Team this is the inside of the fava bean
- Student o really i yhing iv seen this
- Student wow is that beans :)?
Bugscope Team this is a granule of what looks like starch at super high mag
- Bugscope Team yep, this is a bean, this inside of a bean
- Student o really scot i think iv seen this
- 3:32pm
- Student A see a beehive.
- Student get closer
- Bugscope Team ms susie, it's going to be hard to see much when you go much passed 40K magnification
- Guest wat is this
- Student thx scot
- Bugscope Team this is the inside of a fava bean
- Student That look like a pimpul
- Bugscope Team the bean that ms susie sent to us
- Guest look at the fruit fly claw
- Bugscope Team cate cut the bean in half and we are looking at the inside now
- Student scot u are smart and were you learn this from?
Bugscope Team I am not sure about the smart part -- it's more like I remember things I have seen before.
- Student scot you are cool and nice thx
- Student bye scot
- Teacher S
- Student bye scot from luis, rogelio and angel
- Teacher So one class is leaving and another is coming
- Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Student :)
- Bugscope Team okay
- Bugscope Team thanks class, you all did great!
- Student bye :)
- Teacher Can we look at the isopod?
- Student ya thx alot
- Student that looks like a brain
- Bugscope Team the isopod is preset 1
- Bugscope Team it was a bit squished
- Bugscope Team but still looked good enough to look at in the microscope
- Teacher What is the url again for the picture of the electron microscope
Bugscope Team http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/ms/equipment/microscopes/esem/images/thumbnails/esem1.gif
Bugscope Team http://itg.beckman.illinois.edu/microscopy_suite/equipment/ESEM/
- Student that is a spider
Bugscope Team Dude it looks like a spider but is the head of the rolypoly, and we are seeing the antennae.
- Student what is it?
Bugscope Team this is the face of the isopod- the antennae are curved around in front
- Bugscope Team right now you have to copy and paste the url in your browser address field, but we are working on an upgrade where you can click on it
- 3:38pm
- Bugscope Team its mouth is kind of mucked up -- it has a lot of food stuck to it
- Student that is a bag
- Bugscope Team if you want you can use click to center to drive south
- Bugscope Team this is a roly poly, you know those little things you find under damp logs and such. they are also called pill bugs. they are actually not bugs, they are crustaceans, like lobsters...
- Student What is that
Bugscope Team Diego this is the head of a rolypoly, or pillbug
- Student what is it
- Student It looks like wavs
- Student why does it look weird?
Bugscope Team a lot of insects/arthropods are kind of surprising to see up close
- Student what is it is roly poly
Bugscope Team they are little crustaceans that live in dark damp places, and feed off of rotting plant matter or wood. they are those things that roll up in to a little ball when you touch them, you've seen them
- Bugscope Team this is the fava bean cross section
- Student I see lage and on a aya.
- Bugscope Team we are looking at the insides of the fava bean now, and we are seeing what look like starch granules, which we see fairly commonly in plants
- Student what is this
Bugscope Team these are cross-sections of plant cells
Bugscope Team "we are looking at the insides of the fava bean now, and we are seeing what look like starch granules, which we see fairly commonly in plants"
- 3:43pm
- Student Why does it look weird
Bugscope Team lots of things look weird when you look at them with an electron microscope
- Bugscope Team this is kind of what wood looks like
- Student why is it ugly
Bugscope Team partly because it is dry and shriveled
- Student what is a fava bean?
Bugscope Team a fava bean is a bean that is native to africa and southern asia, and used as a food for humans. the plant from which the bean comes is easy to grown and it is one of the most cultivated beans in the world.
- Bugscope Team plant cells have thick membranes around them
- Student that is grass
- Student
- Student what it is that holes.
Bugscope Team the holes are the insides of the plant cells
- Bugscope Team they are native to africa and asia
- Student why does it have holes
- Student what is this
- Student that a pumkin
- Student why is there holes in there
Bugscope Team they look like holes because that is the way they were cut, with a razor
- Student no steven that is not a pumkin
- Guest why douse the bean as a lot of holes?
Bugscope Team Christopher the holes are the insides of cells, which often have a lot of water in them. when the water evaporates we see holes.
- Student I think where in the movie HOLES?
- Student because its roten
- Student what kind of fungus?
- Student kjcdsnv
- Student Tere
- Student This look like smellw
- Student frrrefcvbv
- Student what is this
Bugscope Team this is the inside of a fava bean
- Student There are a lot of craters
Bugscope Team yes Isabel -- those are cross-sections of cells. Plant cells have thick cell walls, and that is what we are seeing.
- Student the faba bean is look likecool
- Student what is it
Bugscope Team fave bean
- 3:48pm
- Student its a punkin
- Bugscope Team this is how plant materials look in the microscope
- Bugscope Team fava bean, i mean
- Student what has the holes.
- Student segio what cd
Bugscope Team this is a CD you sent
- Student HRTRTYJJHTYYUTRYnbfvxfzxfdxZXXDFFghm jl;'
Bugscope Team exactly what i was thinking...
- Bugscope Team here you can see the tracks of the cd
- Student why the faba bean is has hole
- Student that is cool
- Student how do you now this is the inside of a fava bean
Bugscope Team Angie when your teacher sent us the bean we cut a slice out of it and let it dry, so we knew what it was when it went onto the stage of the SEM.
- Bugscope Team we cut it up and took the film off one side -- and this is the film
- Bugscope Team the square is where the beam ruined the sample
- Guest why is there lines?
Bugscope Team we believe those to be the tracks of the cd
- Student this looks wierd
- Student what is this
- Student what is a cd but in the faba been
- Student what kind of music did this CD play?
Bugscope Team it was a CD-R
- Student what is this?
- Student Wow !!! it's WIERD
- Student can we touch
- Student what is this.
- Student what is this
- Student Ther are hols and luts of anemls.
- Student I know Angie
- Student the c'd looks like a roof
Bugscope Team yes it does!
- Student that looks like hair
- Student What this that
- Student why does it look like it has hair?
Bugscope Team those are the thin parts of the CD that get burned with songs or photos or words
- Student is this important?and why?
Bugscope Team this is letting us know what we can and cannot see using a scanning electron microscope
- Student it an aflatabol bed
- Student why does it look like wood?
- Student can we go there.
- Student it an anflatoble bed
- Student it looks like cement
- Student the c'd looks like a pies of a hair
- Student ttthiis iiisss nniiiiicce
- 3:53pm
- Student who made this
- Guest it looks like a aquaduct!
- Student that is CD Tracks
- Student whi is this importan
Bugscope Team it's not really important but it lets you see something at a level you rarely see -- at a magnification of 4558x in this case.
- Student I'm just saying cool!!!
- Student it is coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Student thisis very cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllll
- Student This look like water?
- Student cccccccccccccccccccccccccooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllll
- Student what is this
- Student it looks broken
- Student why the c'ds are broken
Bugscope Team we broke so we could fit it on the stage
- Student Hey Angie!
- Student it looks like a water slid
- Student hey maria do you think this is important
- Student What is the black thing?
- Bugscope Team this, now, is what the inside of the microscope looks like
- Student WOOW!!!!
- Bugscope Team the platter in the bottom of the image is the sample stage
- Student what is this
- Student where is this
- Student ehat is this
- Bugscope Team at the back of the image we see now is the door to the vacuum chamber
- Guest are dose frogs?!
Bugscope Team they're insects but they are hard to see this way
- Student what is this
- Student this loks like snels.
- Bugscope Team this is the inside of the scanning electron microscope we are using now
- Bugscope Team not frogs, those are the bugs and beans that you sent to us
- Student is that a rat
- Student why do they caled it a microscope
Bugscope Team it allows us to see things that are quite small
Bugscope Team it comes from greek. micro means small, and scope means to see. so it means to see small things, like scott said.
- Student this look like a kitchen
- Student what kind of thing is this
- Student It's roboty!
- Student I THINK it looks a harire boll
- Student It looks like a robato.
- Student what is this.
- Student does are not frogs chris
- Student is not a kitchen
- Student chris it does look like a frog
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a fruit fly
- Student fati
- Student are there fraks
- Student This look like a motor?
- Student this is so ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
- Guest what is that in the top?
- Student fait
- Bugscope Team you can see the eyes on either side of the head, and the antennae are the small thing in the middle
- Student why does it look like if they where grilling chicken?
Bugscope Team oh man, that made me laugh, really, thanks...
- 3:58pm
- Student it loo
- Student No it's a big dead FLY!!!!
Bugscope Team yay Isabel -- Thanks. But you know it is actually very small; we just have it magnified.
- Guest why is it groining hair?
Bugscope Team those aren't hairs, those are setae, they are sensory organs, kinda like cat whiskers
- Student what is this
- Student it lookes like a ugly beetle
- Student that looks like a grasshoper
- Student fatima doesn't look like a moskito?
- Student it is really hary
Bugscope Team yep! those hairs (setae) help it to sense its environment, so the more they have the better they survive
- Student is this a bee
- Student This look like monster?
- Student It looks ugly
- Student what is this
- Student the fly is heavy and it looks like a monster
- Bugscope Team now we are looking at the vestiture -- the tiny hairs on the surface of the head
- Student whuwejflqerhiqw9ehfior4g\
- Student is this a grasshopper or what?
Bugscope Team that was a fruit fly, very small
- Student he rigo
- Student A see a fly.
- Student this it is a animal
Bugscope Team this is animal fur, we think
- Student it is agli
- Teacher The classes are leaving....
- Bugscope Team thanks, great job!
- Bugscope Team awww
- Teacher I want to say a big thank you for this amazing experience!!!
- Bugscope Team Thank you Susie!
- Bugscope Team the chat and images are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2010-040
- Bugscope Team you can check out your session anytime... http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2010-040
- 4:04pm
- Bugscope Team susie, we have to leave, nice session, any last questions?
- Teacher Any more time?"
Bugscope Team no, we have a scientist waiting to use the scope, we have to leave now
- Teacher We have 1 more class?
- Teacher Thank you so much!
- Bugscope Team sorry, but we only though it was until 4, we've got a researcher waiting to use the scope
- Bugscope Team maybe you can schedule another session if you need to
- Bugscope Team okay, shutting down the session, thanks!
