Inoué Symposium Media | Marine Biological Laboratory

Photo Gallery

easter lily pollen — Easter Lily pollen mother cell.

Shinya and Danielle Cooke, photo by Mark Levoy, Stanford University.

Ripley's Believe it or Not featuring Shinya Inoue — Ripley's Believe It or Not featuring Shinya Inoue.

shinya microscope diagram — Shinya's microscope diagram.

Videos

Inoué Presentation on Jean Clark Dan

In 2010, Shinya Inoué gave a presentation at MBL for the 100th anniversary of Jean Clark Dan's birth. The combined PowerPoint and audio is courtesy of Rudolf Oldenbourg.

Easter Lily

Mitosis in pollen mother cell of Easter Lily, observed with Shinya Scope-2. 16mm move time-lapsed ca. 450x. This historic sequence (1951) finally proved the reality of spindle fibers and fibrils [microtubules] which move chromosomes and define the plane of cell division in living cells.

Thyone sperm

Acrosomal reaction of Thyone sperm. Video-enhanced DIC in real time. Scale bar 10um. [Tilney and Inoue (1982) J. Cell Biol.93:820-827]

Sea Urchin

Cold-induced reversible loss of birefringence (i.e., depolymerization, or shift in dynamic equilibrium, of spindle microtubules) in developing sea urchin egg. Inoué (1952); Fuseler & Inoué (1975)

Chaetopteris

The movie shows several sequences showing changes in birefringence in oocytes of the marine annelid Chaetopteris that had formed meiotic spindles before exposure to centrifugal force in the Centrifuge Polarizing Microscope developed by S. Inoue. Spindles appear dark or bright according to their directionality with respect to that of the polarized light.

See S. Inoue et al. 2001. Centrifuge polarizing microscope II. Sample biological applications. J Microsc 201:357-367.