In the study of microbial life, microscopy plays a unique role due to its ability to detect
ordered structure, motility, and fluorescence signals. As such it has also recently gained …

A promising way to search for microbial life in our solar system's Ocean Worlds is to make
use of 3-d microscopes, as these can provide single-image inventories of the complete …

With oceans and energy sources present on several outer solar system moons, it is natural
ask whether life might also be present on such bodies. To search for microbial life, 3-d …

Sea ice is an analog environment for several of astrobiology's near-term targets: Mars,
Europa, Enceladus, and perhaps other Jovian or Saturnian moons. Microorganisms, both …

Effective searches for life on icy worlds such as Europa will require: instruments capable of
detecting microbial organisms, robotic platforms for exploration, and systems designed for …

Detection of extant microbial life on Earth and elsewhere in the Solar System requires the
ability to identify and enumerate micrometer-scale, essentially featureless cells. On Earth …

This is the first of two articles on the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System (ELVIS)
describing a combined digital holographic microscope (DHM) and a fluorescence light-field …

The methodologies for studying marine microbiology typically consist of utilizing
instrumentation within a laboratory. This typically requires extracting a sample from its place …

We describe here a simple digital in-line holographic microscope (DIHM) that was used to
investigate the microbial life forms that exist in perennial springs and glacial melt-water …

Accurately detecting and counting sparse bacterial samples has many applications in the
food, beverage, and pharmaceutical processing industries, in medical diagnostics, and for …