The video opens with Professor Alex Johnson speaking directly to the camera. A lower-third graphic appears with his name and title. It reads, "Alex Johnson Assistant Professor of Biochemistry." Scenes show Professor Johnson working with students in a laboratory, along with close-up shots of scientific tools and equipment.
Music plays throughout the video.
Professor Johnson says, "I'm teaching a class right now that uses electron microscopy to determine the structures of proteins. Fundamentally, we're trying to look at things that we can't see with our naked eye. Using advanced cellular imaging or electron microscopy, we have both undergraduate students, master's students and PhD students all working together to try to understand the different concepts."
Undergraduate student Amaya Logan '27 appears on camera and speaks about the importance of working with students at different educational levels. She says, "They're doing things in the lab that I'm not doing." As she speaks, scenes show her and other students working together in the lab. A lower-third graphic appears that reads, "Amaya Logan '27, Biochemistry and Neuroscience Undergraduate Student."
Another student appears. Alex MacNeil, a PhD student, is shown working with other students. A lower-third graphic appears that reads, "Alex MacNeil Biochemistry & Biophysics Phd Student." Scenes include an undergraduate student pouring liquid nitrogen into a container.
MacNeil says, "I do a lot of mentorship with undergrads in the lab, and this class has really highlighted the caliber of undergraduate students that are at Brandeis."
Music rises as close-up shots show hands handling scientific equipment.
Professor Johnson returns and explains a recent addition to his lab, the Tundra electron microscope. He says, "What it does is it shoots electrons at a sample. All students from the class are putting whatever specimen they're most interested in effectively into the microscope to image it."
Scenes show Amaia and Professor Johnson working with the microscope and completing several steps and processes.
Amaya says, "I am studying a protein that resembles a protein that is involved in Parkinson's disease in humans."
Professor Johnson appears and says, "This is the seeing the unseen."
Music rises. PhD student MacNeil is shown examining proteins and says, "This sort of class is what Brandeis builds itself on." An aerial shot shows the Brandeis campus. Quick cuts show professors and students working together.
MacNeil says, "Getting to have hands-on experience is definitely something I'll put on my resume."
Amaya Logan appears again and says, "Being at a school that emphasizes research and gets undergraduates in research labs, like that's such a huge part of what makes Brandeis, Brandeis."
The video fades to white. The National Science Foundation logo appears with on-screen text that reads, "The Tundra cryo-electron microscope was funded through the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation program." The Brandeis blue logo then appears. The music fades out.