Meet the Experts: Integrated Bioimaging with Dr. Auer

Thinking about majoring or pursuing a career in the bio-sciences? Are you curious of the inner workings of macro-molecular complexes, organelles, cells, and tissues? This is your chance to meet Manfred Auer, PhD.

--Questions & Time Stamps--

2:30 – What is electron microscopy?

6:01 – How much training does it take for someone to be able to do electron microscopy?

7:33 – Speaker’s slides about how imaging fits into the molecular-to-macroscopic scale of biology research.

10:25 – Images of the inner details of a cell obtained their electron microscopy.

14:50 – 3D images of the cell cytoskeleton going through the nucleus.

17:37 – How would you define the phrase “integrated bioimaging”?

21:15 – What can electron microscopy contribute to the study of human health?

22:12 – Every high school student learns about the plant cell wall in their biology classes. You're still studying the structure of the cell wall, so how much do we know or not know about this 80-year-old textbook topic?

25:47 – What can electron microscopy tell us about bacteria and bacterial communities?

29:42 – What are current challenges and future frontiers in electron microscopy?

33:31 – It takes time to be able to learn how to communicate across different science disciplines, doesn’t it?

35:50 – Could you describe your academic journey starting from high school?

40:53 – What was it like transitioning from being a science student and scientist from Germany who then moved to America?

44:13 – It's easy for students to be inspired by someone like you, but we want them to know that it takes time to attain this level of success. Were there times in your academic journey when you felt inadequate or wanted to quit?

48:14 – What advice do you have for current high school and college students who want to pursue a career in your field?

51:31 – What type of background courses do a student need to do the research that you do?

58:19 – Microscopy involves taking pictures of very small things. It might be the oldest technique within the life sciences for observing things that are smaller than what the naked can see. What is it about microscopy that keeps it a thriving tool and subject of study, though the fields of genetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry have also advanced so much in the past 100 years?