Eamonn Kennedy
2016 Best Biological Publication Imaging Award
The 2016 Best Biological Imaging Publication was awarded to Eamonn Kennedy, a post-doctoral fellow collaborating with Professor G. Timp in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Biological Sciences.
Kennedy and coworkers published a paper entitled “Live Bacterial Physiology Visualized with 5 nm Resolution Using Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy”. The study addressed a major limitation of transmission electron microscopy (TEM), that living cells cannot be maintained under the high vacuum imaging conditions. Combining live cell fluorescence microscopy with a new technique that permits TEM analysis within a sealed chamber of liquid held inside the Titan microscope, the team was able to visualize at nanometer resolution the infection of a living bacterial cell with bacteriophage virus without compromising cell viability. The study was published in ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 2669.E. Kennedy, Edward Nelson, T. Tanaka, J. Damiano, and G. Timp, "Live Bacterial Physiology Visualized with 5nm Resolution Using Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, ACS Nano 2016, Volume 10, pp. 2669-2677. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07697