L. A. Ernst

Implementation of a daylight fluorescence imaging system to autonomously detect biomarkers of extant life in the Atacama Desert (2006)

Weinstein, S., Pane, D., Warren-Rhodes, K., Cockell, C., Ernst, L. A., Minkley, E., ...

We have integrated a biomarker detection system with a rover for the search for sparse life in extreme environments. The system incorporated a pulsed fluorescence imager, a reagent sprayer, and a...

Use of a novel rover-mounted fluorescence imager and fluorescent probes to detect biological material in the Atacama Desert in daylight (2005)

Weinstein, S., Pane, D., Warren-Rhodes, K., Cockell, C., Ernst, L. A., Minkley, E., ...

We deployed our fluorescence imaging system which detects fluorescence signals from sparse microorganisms and biofilms on Carnegie Mellon University’s autonomous rover Zoë. The results of the 2004...

A novel fluorescence ratiometric method confirms the low solvent viscosity of the cytoplasm.

Luby-Phelps, K, Mujumdar, S, Mujumdar, R B, Ernst, L A, Galbraith, W, Waggoner, A S

Two homologous indocyanine dyes, Cy3.18 and Cy5.18, can be used as a ratio pair for fluorometric determination of solvent viscosity. Succinimidyl ester derivatives of these dyes can be attached to...

A novel fluorescence ratiometric method confirms the low solvent viscosity of the cytoplasm.

Luby-Phelps, K, Mujumdar, S, Mujumdar, R B, Ernst, L A, Galbraith, W, Waggoner, A S

Two homologous indocyanine dyes, Cy3.18 and Cy5.18, can be used as a ratio pair for fluorometric determination of solvent viscosity. Succinimidyl ester derivatives of these dyes can be attached to...