October 2024 – The Live Cell Imaging facility

Direct label of primary antibodies with the FlexAble kit

Some of our users have tested the ProteinTech FlexAble kit to directly label primary antibody and they are very happy so we thought we should share! 🙂

It only takes 10min to label the primary. It saves time for the sample staining procedure and it saves cute animals when one stops ordering secondary antibodies! 🙂 In the hand of our users, the images were as bright or brighter than the same labelling with primary + secondary.

And you can ask for a free sample to test! :):):)

Registrations to the LCI microscopy course 2025 will soon close!

There are a few spots left at our course (27 Jan – 14 Feb 2025): ‘Microscopy: improve your imaging skills – from sample preparation to image analysis’ (6 credits). Application deadline: 5th of November 2024.

This course is completely unique in that it is a highly hands-on course but because it runs completely remotely, your hands will be on your own microscope and your own sample. 😊

To see how the course can help your microscopy project, check out the course schedule 2025 and the alumni testimonies on the course webpage.
You can read the course syllabus and apply on this page. Make sure you check the eligibility criteria and click on the + sign at the top for more information.
If you cannot apply to the course, you can anyway follow any of the lectures (in blue on the course schedule) as they will be publicly broadcasted live on Zoom and accessible to anyone without registration. The schedule and zoom link are available on the course page.

The purpose of the LCI facility microscopy course is to provide PhD students, researchers and core facility staff who have some prior experience of microscopy with enough theoretical and practical knowledge about their OWN sample and their OWN microscope, to enable them to:

assess and improve their sample so that it becomes suitable for data extraction from fluorescence images,
make best use of the hardware available in their lab/facility,
fully understand the acquisition parameters they need to set in their own microscope software,
design their experiment from scientific question to image analysis using a strong knowledge base.

The aim is to provide you with tools to acquire on ANY wide field, confocal or light sheet microscope, images of your samples that reliably answer your scientific question.

The course is free of charge. Contact us (LiveCellImaging@ki.se) for enquiries.

Gisele is hiring!

At the LCI, we have a long standing collaboration with Gisele Miranda, a great and kind image analyst affiliated to BIIF. Gisele is now starting her own image analysis lab! She is currently hiring 2 PhD students so if you know anyone interested, please spread the word. Here is what Gisele says:

I am excited to share that I have recently started my own research group as a SciLifeLab Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the Science for Life Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden. My group will focus on developing and applying cutting-edge Machine Learning techniques to deepen our understanding of cellular behavior and interactions. With a strong emphasis on generative AI, we aim to explore diverse data types, such as microscopy images and omics data, to simulate and predict biological behavior. Our work will focus on mapping complex relationships between single-cell and spatial features, driving new insights into the underlying architecture of cellular networks.

As part of building my group, I currently have two open PhD positions. I would deeply appreciate your help in spreading the word about these opportunities to potential candidates who are interested in working at the intersection of AI and biology.

https://www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/751352?l=en

https://www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/758900?l=en

Thank you for your support, and I look forward to staying connected as my group takes shape!

Best regards,
Gisele

BIIF is hiring!

The BioImage Informatics facility at Scilife is hiring 2 image analysts! Here are the ads:

Open Positions @BIIF

A permanent bioinformatician position (6-month trial period) located at Uppsala University, Department of Computer Science.
Research Software Engineer position located at our KTH site in Stockholm Solna. This is a 1-year position, but there is a possibility to extend it to a permanent position after.

Please contact BIIF directly if you have any question.