Couch Microscopy
FEBRUARY 2024: “BRAVE NEW WORLDS IN A DROP OF WATER” ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE GLOBAL WATER FORUM.
Julia wrote a an article for Atlas Obscura, sharing how to get started searching for microbes anywhere and everywhere.
Julia/Couch Microscopy won the British Phycological Society’s 2022 Hilda Canter-Lund award (micro category) for her photo of a hydra and its green algal symbionts.
IMAGE TEXT: “This is an image of many organisms, the animal Hydra viridissima (a freshwater cnidarian) and thousands of symbiotic Chlorella vulgaris cells (a green alga) that give the animal its vibrant green color! More than that, the algae provide products of photosynthesis to the hydra to give it the energy to survive when prey is scarce. In exchange, the hydra provides the algae with a safe and stable environment for long periods of time. Many algae are part of symbioses that are vital to the function of communities and ecosystems. Although we can’t see the individual algal cells in this photo, we can still see their impact. This image was taken with an Amscope T340B microscope and MU120 camera, at 20x total magnification, darkfield. The hydra itself was about 3mm long in this photo and at least twice that length when its tentacles were fully extended.”
9/24/2021: Couch Microscopy Video “Tube-dwelling amphipod” awarded People’s Choice Award at the Microscopy Today micrograph awards.
12/4/2020: Couch Microscopy images as cover art in the November Issue of Microscopy Today. These images accompany the article: “Red Algal Extremophiles: Novel Genes and Paradigms” (pg. 28 or pdf).
11/10-14/20: ‘All We Are’ film (co-created/produced with Marleine Van Der Werf) was screened at the InScience Film festival (netherlands)!
7/1/20: Two Couch Microscopy videos featured on the cover of Microscopy Today, as finalists in this year’s Micrograph Awards Competition (Links here: [Ciliate] [Hydra]).
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6/22-27/20: ‘All We Are’ film (co-created and produced with Marleine Van Der Werf) was screened at the Zeitimpuls film festival in Austria!
10/28/19: The short film All We Are created and directed by Julia and filmmaker Marleine Van der Werf as part of Imagine Science Film Festival’s Symbiosis competition was featured on Labocine.
7/8/19: “Colonial Rotifers”, a Couch Microscopy video is featured on the cover of Microscopy Today, as one of the finalists in this year’s Micrograph Awards Competition.
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6/19/19: Julia’s interview with AlgiKnit was published. Here, she talks about her graduate research and how Couch Microscopy came to be!
6/17/19” Julia/Couch Microscopy was featured in an article in Laboratory Equipment Magazine, written by Michelle Taylor.
4/8/19: Julia (Couch Microscopy) and the Bhattacharya Lab interviewed by Lauren Wanko on NJTV and it aired on PBS! Full story here.
ASPECT SCIENCE (TOM CARROLL) USED COUCH MICROSCOPY FOOTAGE IN A REALLY COOL ENDOSYMBIOSIS VIDEO!
Two features on NBC New York!
Friday 1/18/19: 4pm News at 4
Saturday 1/19/19: 6am Morning News; Pat Battle is not a fan of insect larvae!
