Early efforts at morphometry :)

Long ago, my daughter was frequently at work, and here, as reminded of by finding this micrograph in my stash, as a young child she must have been visiting my office – maybe school was on a “teacher’s” day, or some other issue was at hand.  Many of the methods for morphometry I have used (and developed) over the decades (to determine organelle sizes, incidence, etc) she must have been aware of.  Here she correctly outlines the nucleus, the cell plasma lemma, and in particular she liked the granules in the lower right (ha ha) I do not remember what APUD stood for that day.  This micrograph I must have given her to entertain her…and teach her that science can be fun, and also can be for women (believe me, when I was in graduate school it was not a happy place for women), and it can be artistic.  I don’t remember how old she was, but not very old.   The heart is “mine” in finding this memory.

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