laBloomba - dancing flowers to the music of La Bomba

You will be rocking to time-lapse footage of flowers opening, dancing. Fun! A 1st prize winner at www.ChloroFilms.org (contest #1).

The Fastest Flights in Nature: A Fungal Opera

High speed videos of fungi blasting their spores into the air - a microscopic cannon! A 2nd prize winner in Chlorofilms contest #1.

Light capture by Photosystem I

Shows the workings of the microscopic solar collector used in Photosystem I, the first part of photosynthesis linked to water splitting. Nice animation of light energy bouncing around in the light harvesting complex, until it is captured by the reaction center.

Preparing Animal and Plant Cells Slides

A clear demo of preparing onion epidermal peel for microscopic examination. I wonder if this would work for many other plant tissues?

VIB Animation: Pioneering Research in Plant Biology

Slick animation of plant growth, cell division, meristems, lateral roots, auxin transport...gets a bit too technical in some of its references to molecular biology. An advert for VIB.

Development of Cellulosic Biofuels

Chris Somerville (Director of EBI, UC Berkeley) summarizes the rationale and technical aspects of moving towards second-generation cellulosic biofuels. One-hr lecture/powerpoint. Authoritative and informative.

PSI - Are my soybeans wearing different genes?

Three Purdue co-eds extract DNA to look for transgenes in their tofu. A 1st prize winner in the ChloroFilms contest #1.