Daniel Doucet, Author at FocalPlane

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VolumeEM: An Interview with Kedar Narayan

Posted by Daniel Doucet, on 14 December 2024

I had the pleasure of sitting down with recent awardee of the Alan Agar Royal Microscopy Award for Electron Microscopy, Dr. Kedar Narayan. Dr. Narayan is very involved with the grassroots Volume EM (vEM) community, and has used his time at Frederick National Laboratory to not only benefit cancer research, but microscopy technique as a

From Microscope to Macro-Scope: Same Sobek, New Glyphs

Posted by Daniel Doucet, on 5 September 2024

Thousands of years ago, the Ancient Egyptians depicted their numerous gods on hieroglyphics. One of which is an amalgamation of crocodile and man – Sobek, the god of the Nile River. These sacred carvings (from the classical Greek “heiros”, sacred; “glyphikos”, carving) have to be deciphered carefully by historians who are far removed from the

Education Strategies of Imaging Cores

Posted by Daniel Doucet, on 1 April 2024

Over the past two decades, high profile research institutions have come to rely on distinct core facilities for much of their data and image analysis. The benefits of the newest technologies are often softened by the costs of purchasing and maintaining such equipment for regular use. For microscopy and imaging, it only made sense that