Whats it like working with so many preeminent scientists?
DEERINCK: It has been amazing. The UCSD (University of California at San Diego) is surrounded by such incredible resources as the Salk Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, along with a host of biotech companies. The region is truly a hotbed of biological research. NIKON: What makes a great photomicrograph or digital image? DEERINCK: The point is to communicate a concept or a finding. It should tell you something or talk to you. Also, an image that is pleasing to the eye tends to more easily capture one’s attention. The brain is a particularly good subject because it has such an incredible complexity. In fact, all of nature has an innate beauty that most people don’t realize, but which can be revealed with the help of a microscope. NIKON: How difficult is specimen preparation? DEERINCK: Where I work, we not only utilize standard specimen preparation methods, but we specialize in develop new ones. One of the revolutions currently occurring
