Confocal Microscopy

This webinar, published by the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support (NACK) Center at Pennsylvania State University, provides an introduction to confocal microscopy. After a brief overview of the history of microscopes, Dr. Fatma Pir-Cakmak, researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describes the operation of a confocal microscope and the capabilities of confocal microscopy. Additionally, Pir-Cakmak goes in depth into a real-life example of confocal microscopy, focusing on the diffusion of biomolecules in vesicle coated ribonucleic acid (RNA)-based coacervates.

The webinar runs 31:42 minutes in length. Also included are presentation slides and an audio version of the video.