Connected on 2012-02-08 19:00:00
from , Western Australia, Australia
- 6:03 pm
- Bugscope Teamsample is pumping down
- Bugscope Teamalmost there...
- Bugscope Teamit's like 8:07 a.m. tomorrow in Perth
- 6:10 pm
- 6:16 pm
- Bugscope Teamwe are ready to roll at any time now
- Bugscope Teamcornicles are also called siphunculi
- 6:21 pm
- 6:28 pm
- Bugscope Teamas if something you never heard of has to have two names
- Bugscope Teamalright it is 6 1/2 here
- 6:33 pm
- Bugscope TeamI mean you can hardly see them, and they have names.
- Bugscope Teamthey're kind of like stern-mounted cannons
- Bugscope Teamor dual exhaust in the aphid world
- 6:41 pm
- Bugscope Teamyou're a student!
- Bugscope TeamWelcome to Bugscope! Is everything, like, upside down there?
- StudentYou are upside down!
- StudentI can't type here
- Bugscope Teamhaha maybe so
- StudentCAn I drive the scope?
- StudentI am psyched!
- Bugscope Teamyeah I gave you control
- Bugscope Teamalthough you're only a student
- Bugscope TeamI believe you already moved the ant
- Bugscope Teamhere goes
- Bugscope TeamYay! Can you see the glossa?
- Bugscope Teamthe wasp tongue?
- Bugscope Teamit's a delicacy
- StudentI can see the glossa! pRETTY cool. Don't get this laptop
- Bugscope Teamis it like ergonomic or something?
- Bugscope Teamnow you can see two palps and more of the mandible
- StudentIt is. Too good for me.
- Bugscope TeamKendra has one of those and I am totally at sea with it.
- StudentIt looks like things are working. The scientists in this room are chomping to take over the podium. Good thing I have a black belt.
- Bugscope Teamhaha take it easy down there
- StudentI am using internet explorer. Will that be OK? I dont' have Firefox here.
- 6:46 pm
- Bugscope Teamyeah should be fine
- StudentOK - I have to log off. People are giving me the eye. Looks like this is all working. What do you think NEed to try anything?
- Bugscope Teamit all looks good there? I think if it's all working the only potential problem is the screen res.
- Studentgreat samples.
- StudentThe resolution is good!
- StudentALl ok?
- StudentALL
- Bugscope TeamWe are fine Mademoiselle; new sample for your session in a coupla days.
- StudentCOOL! OK - gotta go mate. G'Day
- StudentThankks for the testing.
- Bugscope Teamover and out!
- Studentroger that
- Bugscope Teamnp
- Bugscope TeamBye!
- 5:56 pm
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- Bugscope Teamsample is pumping down
- 6:07 pm
- Bugscope Teamsetting up
- 6:14 pm
- 6:19 pm
- 6:26 pm
- Bugscope Teammaking presets...
- 6:31 pm
- 6:37 pm
- 6:43 pm
- Bugscope TeamHello!
- GuestHI guys - i had trouble logging in from my password - so I am a guest
- Bugscope TeamHow are things on the ventral side of the world?
- GuestWe will be starting in 15 minutes or so - i will start with the power point
- Bugscope Teamyou can try logging in again; didn't your password do the trick Monday?
- Bugscope Teamthis is a pretty gnarly looking mite
- 6:48 pm
- Bugscope TeamHey does this ant look rightside up to you?
- Guestit looks great@!
- 6:54 pm
- Bugscope Teamthis is the turret for the bedbug proboscis
- Guestthat is gross
- GuestGood morning, Michele! I hope you are doing well.
- Bugscope TeamUmesh!
- GuestGood evening, Scott!
- Bugscope TeamColonel Chas is here as well, a rare occasion
- GuestHello Chas! Did you have many Facebook options.
- GuestThe whole team is here! Yeah! A shout out to my family and Marlo for being there too. Hey to Jen and Mike!! They all encouraged me to come!! We will be starting soon@
- Bugscope TeamUmesh, Chas' chauffeur dropped him off.
- GuestHi Michele!
- Bugscope TeamWould have been nice. My Apple stuff is doing well though
- GuestI will be back soon = starting with the presentation for a bit then online.
- Bugscope TeamGreat!
- Bugscope TeamAwesome.
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- GuestHi Kate!
- 6:59 pm
- GuestPeople are excited so far!
- Bugscope TeamSweet. I will put the ant on and see if it looks like its rightside up to you.
- GuestThis is your show, Michele! Drive the scope!
Bugscope TeamYo Dude I think she's talkin'
- 7:05 pm
- GuestWish we had bugs from down under.
- 7:16 pm
- GuestHere we are. JUst finished with the PPT. Scot - can you drive the scope and show us something in partcular?
- Bugscope Teamthis is a bedbug, Michele, that you gave us
- Bugscope TeamScott just moved to the bedbug (cimex lectularious)
- Bugscope Teamhope it wasn't your personal, like, pet
- Bugscope TeamI'm sitting at the 'scope and Chas is on Chaos, next to the 'scope
- Bugscope TeamThis is zooming in on a ball joint at the base of the proboscis
- Guestit was caught by an exterminator
Bugscope Teamha Thanks for Clarifying!
- Guestwhat is this structure?
Bugscope Teamthis is the turret part of the head
- Bugscope TeamThe proboscis is a tube-like structure they use to suck blood through
- Bugscope Teamthe proboscis can turn forward and poke into your skin no problem
- Bugscope TeamThe spikey structures are setae, roughly equivalent to human hairs
- Bugscope TeamSetae have many different shapes and patterns on them depending on their location and purpose
- Bugscope Teamwe 've noticed that they have a lot of spikey, spatulate setae
- Bugscope Teamthis, now, is the tip of the proboscis, where we see a lot of chemoreceptors
- Bugscope Teamso it can sniff out your blood
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of its claws
- 7:21 pm
- Bugscope Teamthis, now, is one of the most bizarre things of the day
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that we clicked on a preset but it is small and had shifted since we made it
- Bugscope Teamletting you know that this is not 'canned'
- Bugscope Teamsometimes we will help a school with high-mag focus, if we're near the 'scope
- Bugscope Teamzooming out...
- Bugscope Teamthis is freaky
- GuestIs this the 3rd session we have had from Australia?
- Bugscope Teamthe claw we saw was stuck to the roach claw
- Bugscope TeamWow, we have the roach claw to the left holding onto a disembodied fly claw
- GuestHi Lyn!
- Guestcan we have control now? Lyn wants to drive
- Guesthi, im lyn from adelaide in south austraia. i work in em, and notice that your samples dont charge much - do you have any secrets in how you do that
Bugscope Teamwe make them bulletproof, coat with 20 nm of Au/Pd
Bugscope TeamWe also use a tilting, rotating holder in the sputter coater. 20nm is about 2-3x more than we normally use
- Bugscope TeamAlso, Lyn, we have enough samples on the stub so that we can avoid those that charge or that threw up on themselves when they died (and we hadn't noted that on the macro level).
- Guestgood idea
- Bugscope TeamWe coat with a much thicker coat than you would use in research.
- Bugscope TeamWe use samples only once, as well. We don't want kids looking at someone else's samples.
- 7:26 pm
- GuestLyn, may be you can consider mailing bugs from down under and then have a session with a school in Adelaide.
- Bugscope TeamAlso worth noting is that we use double-sided carbon tape on the stub and even use a little dab of silver paint between the insect and the tape
- Bugscope Teamif the school does not care to drive, we will drive for them; but once the kids know we can confer control to them, it's a free for all.
- GuestLyn, here is snapshot of the stub, http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/overview.html
- Guestthanks this is great - i will suggest it at home
- Bugscope TeamUmesh you know that Lyn has her own 'scope, doesn't need to work with us.
- Bugscope TeamGreat, we'll keep our eyes peeled for some Australian applications
- Guesti will hand over to someone else now bye
Bugscope TeamThank You, Lyn!
- GuestYes, we will appreciate AUS applications. May be students training to be teachers could be interested.
- Bugscope Teamwe often find mold spores
- Bugscope Teamsometimes pollen, sometimes bacteria, esp. on ticks
- Bugscope Teamwhat is super interesting about ticks is that when their cuticle bursts, they just seal it back up agina
- 7:31 pm
- GuestHere is the actual image, http://discord.itg.uiuc.edu/images/microscope/glennhand-300x204.jpg
- GuestHello Bronwen!
- Guestbronwen here from brisbane hi. what machine are you using? I mean brand?
Bugscope TeamPhilips/FEI XL30 ESEM FEG
- Bugscope TeamIf you note the scale bar to the lower left of the image, 10 microns is about a tenth the width of a human hair
- Bugscope TeamI think I've met you before. Now I'm a recluse and don't leave the lab.
- Bugscope TeamSo each segment of the mold spores here is about one hundred times thinner than a hair
- GuestAh the old XL30 yes we have one too they're great for easy driving
Bugscope Teamyeah Dude
- Bugscope Teamthe kids ask us if it's easy to use
- GuestWe had it since Jan. 1999. Bugscope first session in March 1999.
- Bugscope Teamthis is a microscopy suite, so we have lots of equipment
- GuestBy old I mean familiar - no disrespect!
Bugscope Teamain't no thang, DaddyO
Bugscope TeamI was just recollecting how I've been using ours for 12 years.
- Bugscope Teamonce we had someone send owl pellets and the 'scope was down so we put them into the microCT and made a movie of the bones and skulls and teeth inside the pellet
- GuestHi guys. I'm Chris from Brisbane. Are you both in the same room?
Bugscope Teamit just happens, but Chas could be at home with his feet up
- GuestHi Chris! I am in Washington DC. Scott and Chas are in Urbana-Champaign. Scott is driving. Chas is somewhere in town.
- Bugscope TeamWe were lucky to get support so that we could write our own custom software to control the microscope. That's been the foundation of Bugscope and is something we've continued to iterate on and improve ever since
- Bugscope TeamChris if you wanted you could join in to any session.
Bugscope TeamOn the main bugscope website their is a schedule with all of the upcoming sessions, all of which can be joined by the public
- 7:36 pm
- Bugscope TeamAnnie used to connect in her pjs from her apartment. She was our entomologist extraordinaire.
- Guesthaha
- GuestAfter 12+ years, it makes not much difference. Someone has to be in the suite.
- GuestDo you find it works better to be in the same room, or does it make no difference?
Bugscope Teamwhat is funny is that we will write each other rather than talking
Bugscope TeamFor the people assisting the session? During the sample presets it's helpful to have a pair of people together but after that, for assisting on chat, it really is no different
Bugscope Team* while creating the sample presets
- Bugscope Teamoh! also, we have a secret chat capability, so we can talk with each other over private chat on the same interface.
Bugscope TeamYes, that helps us ask each other questions without needing to confuse the other attendees
- Guestsneaky
- GuestBugscope via smart phone, iPad, etc. Chas is already experimenting. I think it would be good to have other instruments form a network using software like Bugscope.
- GuestMy hope has been a conference of Bugscope users in Urbana-Champaign. What works. What does not. and so on.
- Bugscope Teamwe're also going to upgrade our sister site, Virtual Microscope, which is ridiculously outdated.
- Bugscope Teamone thing we will not ever do is videoconferencing
- GuestWhat are some of the future ambitions of bugscope?
Bugscope Teamwe're going to make yet another interface, and we're going to make *all* old sessions searchable; presently we go back only to 2006/7
Bugscope TeamOur main goal the last few years has been improving experience of a participant, from before they apply through till their live session. Expanding to other instruments or other facilities would also be great, but it's not entirely simple; getting the right people running it is critical when working with K-12 groups
- 7:42 pm
- Bugscope Teamwe want the kids to see the 'scope and what it can do, and drive if their teachers let them
- GuestEach classroom is like an investigator, with students and teachers. So, each session is unique. We have years of experience with unique sessions.
- GuestThanks, Chas! I had been meaning to mention it. We should talk later.
- Bugscope Teamthis setup gives the kids and advantage, and they get it, they understand
- GuestKate: Supreme court has a similar argument of not having video cameras. We just follow that :)
- GuestWE have to log off - this is Michele again! Take care and thank all of you!
- Bugscope Teamalso, this is another secret... we can look up things we don't know and answer them in near real time on chat
- GuestThanks, Michele! Have a great rest of the day. Travel safely. Enjoy Australia.
- Bugscope TeamThank You!
- GuestWhy no videoconferencing?
Bugscope Teamthink about how it would work... it would not give the kids a voice, and we would be, what, shouting into the microphone?
Bugscope TeamOne of the nice things about the text-based chat is that when more than one computer is available we can have kids asking questions in parallel, something that just wouldn't function with a single video feed
- Bugscope TeamThanks Umesh. Cya later, have a good night
- GuestThanks Scott and Chas! Talk to you both later. Have a good evening.
Bugscope TeamThank You Umesh
- Bugscope TeamThanks Rachel!
- Bugscope TeamAnd please tell Kate thank you as well.
- 7:47 pm
- Bugscope Teamover and out!
