At the recent Society for Neuroscience I presented a dynamic poster, a presentation on a large flatscreen monitor in the giant poster hall. I have seen these around but never had the opportunity to try one before. The project, led by John Darby Cole and Delane Espinueva (who have since gone on to graduate school*) was a detailed neuroanatomical exploration of new vs old neurons. The images were collected on a confocal microscope, which visually “slices” through the tissue. Often the image slices are flattened when presented on paper, but this can obscure important details since different parts of the cell might overlap. Also, noise from the individual planes will accumulate in the flattened image, which can make it difficult to see real signal that is faint. So what I did here was to convert the individual planes into frames of movies (gifs) giving the appearance that you are focussing the objective at different levels through the tissue. Also, with this format you can easily link to other slides that have additional examples, or larger examples for people that are farther away. You can see an overview in the short movie below but an even better option is to download the file and click away!
*elsewhere 🙁