My research activities in the Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology include providing technical support and assistance to graduate students and faculty who use the Imaging Core facilities of the Tufts Center for Reproductive Research as well as the Department's Confocal Microscope Facility. Investigators are trained and assisted in the use of videomicroscopes and image analysis systems that can capture, store and quantitate images of bright-field, in situ hybridization and fluorescently-labelled cells and tissues. They also receive assistance in the use of our BioImage workstation that is used to analyze blots and gels generated by the Center's Protein Probe and Histochemistry and Hybridazation Cores.

Over the past several years, Professor David Albertini and I developed a series of workshops on various state-of-the art biomedical applications. The intent of these workshops was to provide students and faculty with the appropriate background information and the available facilities to promote utilization of our imaging equipment by the Tufts community at large.

Together with Professors David Damassa, Myra Rufo Walid El-Bermani and James Morehead, I am also exploring ways in which digital magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and full-color anatomical images can be used as a tool for teaching Medical and Dental Gross Anatomy. The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project data set, for example, consists of a complete series of axial and longitudinal images of a human cadaver, providing unprecedented spatial detail of anatomical complexity. World Wide Web pages have been created where some of these digital images can be viewed by students in our Medical and Dental Gross Anatomy courses.

My research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy involves investigations of the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona at radio, X-ray and Extreme Ultraviolet wavelengths. Data from the world's largest radio telescope, the Very Large Array have been combined with observations from the Japanese Yohkoh X-ray satellite and the SOlar Orbiting and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) to study the structure and evolution of coronal magnetic loops above solar active regions as well as the physical mechanisms that give rise to solar flares.

"Very Large Array-SOHO Observations of the Solar Corona", K.R. Lang and R.F. Willson, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th SOHO Workshop 1997.

"VLA-SOHO Observations of Evolving Coronal Structures on the Sun" R.F. WIllson, K.R. Lang, B. Thompson, U. Schuehle and D. M. Zarro ( to appear in the Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun 1997).

"X-ray Jets and Their Radio Signatures at Metric and Centimeter Wavelengths" L. van Driel- Gesztelyi, R.F. Willson, J.N. Kile, A. Raoult, K.-L Klein, B. Cader-Sroka, P. Rudawy, N. Mein, B. Rompolt, B. Schmieder, P. Mein and J.M. Malherbe, (to appear in the Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun 1997).

"Microwave Spectral-Polarization Structure of Type I Noise Storm Producing Solar Active Regions" V.M. Bogod, V.I. Garaimov, R.F. Willson, J.N. Kile and K.R. Lang, (to appear in the Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun 1997).