Our infamous Hans Blom from the Advanced Light Microscopy facility at Scilife, is organizing a workshop at the end of this month.
Light sheet, super resolution and FCS on the menu, talks and demos.
Have a look at the program. 🙂
Good news on the glass bottom plates and chamber front!
There are loads of multiwell plates and chamber slides on the market but it is hard to get any that fulfill these criteria:
- They do not kill the cells (unfortunately, this is not a joke!)
- They do not leak (no joke either! Sigh…)
- They have a low skirt: so they can be completely imaged (including the outer area of outer wells) with our Nikon 20x air, NA 0.75, WD 1mm objectives. The ‘skirt’ is the rim at the edge of the plate. A high skirt raises the plate so that it becomes impossible to image the wells at the edges of the plate as the objective bumps into the insert edge.
- They have a #1.5 (=170um thick) glass coverslip bottom which is thickness any objective from any manufacturer is specified for.
- They don’t cost a bomb.
Zell Kontakt is a German company that makes fantastic glass bottom dishes and plate (absolutely no commercial interests!) fulfilling ALL these criteria and are very flat! If you ask kindly, you may even get a free sample to test! 🙂
If you are at KI and need to write an exemption, just come and ask us for our template. 🙂
Job opening at Nikon Europe :)
Do you want to apply your microscopy knowledge in a commercial setting and join a company with a dynamic vision for the future?
Nikon Instruments is a world-renowned company that provides cutting edge technologies for optical instrumentation. We offer a creative working environment with highly motivated colleagues, team spirit, and comprehensive benefits and ongoing professional development opportunities.
Within our Nikon Instruments Europe Headquarters, a vacancy has arisen in our European Product Support Group (PSG) for an experienced European Product Specialist to join the team. The PSG team plays a key role in proactively coordinating the microscopy information flow across Europe concerning technical know-how and applications, including customer insight & commercial win-loss experiences.
Specifically, in this role, the successful candidate will be an ambassador for the Pan-European PSG team’s initiatives and strategic objectives, through providing a technical and commercially focused support programme that facilitates multiple communication channels, and adequately supports the local business units in each country to achieve net sales targets.
JOB TITLE: European product specialist
OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY:
As product specialist for the European headquarters, the overall responsibilities are to develop, implement, and plan for products mainly in the super resolution and laser application areas. These responsibilities include planning of product introductions, information management of products/systems, and helping achieve sales goals supporting our local teams, as well as technical and training roles with respect to these systems products.
Planning responsibilities include forecasting and management of vendor products based on market requirements and market trends. These also include competitive analyses, feature/benefit analyses, and interaction with partner vendors in the design, marketing, pricing, and applications of vendor products integrated into Nikon systems products.
Product development responsibilities include communication and training with the factory design and planning teams to implement new systems products, and provide feedback to the factory for competitive analysis and forecasting, in order to strengthen the overall systems product lines.
Information management responsibilities include associated training and marketing of systems products to Nikon team members and customers, and to act as a technical liaison when assisting the sales department in key sales demonstrations, installations, and technical trainings.
We are looking for a candidate with experience in laser based microscopy, preferably in super resolution systems such as STORM and SIM, and with experience in dealing with microscopy brands either from a research standpoint or as commercial or specialist experience.
If you are interested, please contact laura.schneider@nikon.com
Brilliant violet dyes
Those who work with FACS might be aware of the very bright dyes called Brilliant Violet. They can also be used in microscopy. 🙂
BV dyes are all excited around 400 nm (same as blue dyes) but they can emit at much longer wavelengths, like red or far red. This means that if they are used together, they are excited at the same time and the colors are only separated based on the emission! But these dyes are very bright which is a great advantage.
Et voilà! 🙂
Microscopy facility job in Gothenburg!
The excellent Centre for Cellular Imaging core facility at Sahlgrenska Academy – Gothenburg University is looking into hiring someone!
Have a look at the ad here.
How to kill your fear of image analysis?
Neubias is a European effort to get biologists comfortable with image analysis. conferences (Hungary, Jan 2018), courses, facility staff training, ‘biologists meet analysts’ meetings… They have it all!
Now this is your chance to learn and get help to analyze images for your microscopy project! Check the Neubias conference and courses in Hungary!
And if you would like to work with microscopy in the future, remember to join the ELMI (European Light Microscopy Initiative) so you get all their job announcements! 🙂
Custom made rotating stage insert
One more cute stage insert for the LCI facility, thanks to Peter Arfert, the KTH workshop wizard and his 3D printing machine! 🙂
Image analysis job in Uppsala! :)
Up to three postdoc and researcher positions in Computerized Image Processing, Scientific Computing, and Bioinformatics in Uppsala
Do you want to develop new, intelligent ways of processing and managing very large amounts of microscopy images in order to leverage the imminent explosion of information from modern experimental setups in the biosciences? Join the recently started interdisciplinary research project Hierarchical Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Data (HASTE) within the research groups of Prof. Carolina Wählby, Assoc. Prof. Andreas Hellander, Department of Information Technology, and Assoc. Prof. Ola Sjuth, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Vironova AB and AstraZeneca AB, Sweden.
More information and instructions for how to apply can be found here (Postdoc: If your PhD degree was obtained after 2014-05-23) or here (Researcher: If your PhD was obtained before 2014-05-23).
Deadline for application: 2017-05-23. Note that all applications need to be submitted though the online recruitment system.
Imaris User Group Meeting in Basel
Would you like to boost your knowledge about Imaris, learn loads of tipes and get expert help with your pipeline? Join the Imaris User Group Meeting in Basel at the end of June!
Xiaowei Zhuang’s visit!
Great news! Xiaowei Zhuang from Harvard University will visit us on the 31st of May!
On top of the STORM super resolution technique, her lab recently came up the MERFISH technique -a multiplexing-based in situ RNA sequencing-, as well as a FRET-based method to study Protein-DNA transient interactions during replication, transcription…
Check here her projects and mind-blowing ‘selected’ publication list.
Come and listen to her talk on Wednesday, May 31 at 10.00-11.00. Main lecture Hall 4th Floor, Novum, Flemingsberg
”Illuminating biology at the nanoscale and systems scale using single-molecule and super-resolution imaging”.
Hope to see you there! 🙂