Back to Eugene Bell Center Shinya Inoué Symposium Overview Inoué Symposium Program Inoué Symposium Media Home Groundbreaking Research at the Research Centers Eugene Bell Center Shinya Inoué Symposium Inoué Symposium Media Photo Gallery 4th division Sand dollar egg. Easter Lily pollen mother cell. GFP crystal rotated. Shinya and Danielle Cooke, photo by Mark Levoy, Stanford University. Ripley's Believe It or Not featuring Shinya Inoue. Shinya's microscope diagram. Videos Inoué Presentation on Jean Clark Dan Remote video URL In 2010, Shinya Inoué gave a presentation at for the 100th anniversary of Jean Clark Dan's birth. The combined PowerPoint and audio is courtesy of Rudolf Oldenbourg. Easter Lily Remote video URL 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 Remote video URL 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 Remote video URL 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 Remote video URL 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.