Emma Perry

Electron Microscopy Laboratory Manager, Graduate FacultyEmma Perry portrait

Phone: 207.581.2927
Email: emma.perry@maine.edu
Website: https://umaine.edu/core/electron-microscopy-laboratory/
Pronouns:  she/her/hers
Location: Electron Microscopy Laboratory, 9-17 Murray Hall

Electron Microscopy Laboratory
The Electron Microscopy Laboratory maintains a Zeiss NVision 40 FIB-SEM, an Amray 1820 SEM, a
Technai T12 TEM and two confocal microscopes: an Olympus Fluoview 1000 (inverted) and a Leica SP2
(upright). We offer training and guidance in preparing your samples for these types of microscopy and
can also prepare your samples and obtain your data for you if needed.

Research Topic: Tardigrades, Taxonomy, Electron and Light Microscopy
Research Program: In my personal research I study the biodiversity of Maine tardigrades. This includes
using integrated taxonomy as we discover new species around us. As these creatures are small
(averaging ~300um) microscopy (both light and electron) is involved in all steps of studying these
charismatic microinvertebrates.

Publications:

Perry, E.S., Miller, W.R. & Kaczmarek, Ł. (2021) Additional recommended abbreviations for the names of
genera of the phylum Tardigrada, Zootaxa, 4981 (2) 398-400 http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.12

Miller, W.R., McCowan P.J., Perry, E.S., Schulze, S.L., Shannon, R. and Henry, C.B.S. (2020) Tardigrades of
North America: New records of occurrence for three species of green tardigrades (Heterotardigrada,
Echiniscoidea, Echiniscidae, Viridiscus), Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 123 (1-2), 235-
241. https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0122

Perry, E.S., Miller, W.R. & Kaczmarek, Ł. (2019) Recommended abbreviations for the names of genera of
the phylum Tardigrada, Zootaxa,4608 (1) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4608.1.8

Miller, W.R. & Perry, E.S. (2019) Adjustments to the Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada.
Part III: North America and Greenland by Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & McInnes (Zootaxa 4203). Zootaxa,
4543 (1):099-114 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.1.6

Perry, E.S., Rawson, P., Ameral, N.J.^, Miller, W.R. and Miller J.D. (2018) Echiniscoides rugostellatus a
new marine tardigrade from Washington, U.S.A. (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscoidea: Echiniscoididae),
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 131: 182-193.

Miller, W.R. and Perry, E.S. (2016) Marine Tardigrades of the Americas, Zootaxa, 4126 (3): 375-396 doi:
10.11646/zootaxa.4126.3.4

Perry, E.S. and Miller, W.R. (2015) Echiniscoides wyethi, a new marine tardigrade from Maine, U.S.A.
(Heterotardigrada: Echiniscoidea: Echiniscoididae), Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington,
128 (1): 103-110. doi: 10.2988/0006-324X-128.1.103

Perry, E.S., Miller, W.R. and Lindsay, S. (2015), Looking at tardigrades in a new light: using
epifluorescence to interpret structure. Journal of Microscopy, 257: 117–122.