>> Good afternoon.
Welcome to the 2014 ASGSR conference and thanks
for participating in the microscopy workshop.
Okay, my name is Angel Otero.
I'm the deputy director of the
"slips" division at NASA headquarters.
We are responsible for space biology
and physical science research.
Among the research that we support includes,
on the space biology side, rodent research,
fruit fly research, plant physiology,
and other research on life systems.
On the physical science side, we do research in combustion,
materials, fluid physics, complex fluids,
and fundamental physics.
Today you guys are going to participate in the workshop
to go over the capabilities of the light microscopy module,
LMM, which was originally designed
to support fluid physics experiments,
but we have expanded its use to go
into complex fluids experiments.
And recently, we started including space
biology experiments.
So this is a very, very capable instrument that was designed
by the guys at the Glenn Research Center and we would
like to get your ideas on what other kinds of research
that can be supported using this capable instrument.
Thanks for participating, and I hope that some great ideas come
out of this workshop today.