Scilife super res course

Super resolution course early February at Scilife with great presentations accessible to everyone! I will go to the DNA-paint talk! 🙂

Check it out here.

GoPro

Eurobioimaging is organizing a microscopy image competition and there is a GoPro camera to grab! 🙂 Apply here!

Phallaina

Talking about Art and Science, here is a tip about how to enjoy every minute (at least I did) of Phallaina by Marietta Ren, a new art form called Bande Défilée in French, which might translate to Streaming Strip? Strolling Graphic Novel? If you ask me, bande défilée sounds best but I am biased! 🙂

The first graphic novel/comic strip entirely made for tactile screens like your mobile phone.

Here is the trailer. One will need to download a big app but it can be deleted afterwards. French or English texts.

It is totally worth it, especially for those who enjoy science/art/diving.

Not exactly a microscopy post but… they do use medical imaging! :-/

Six images acquired at the LCI at the Sven-Harrys museum!

The golden Sven-Harrys museum at the heart of Stockholm is currently exhibiting beautiful microscopy images. We proudly counted 6 of them that were acquired with the LCI microscopes! Go and have a look! 🙂

Alyona’s videos

Alyona Minina from the Confocal microscopy facility at SLU came up with really nice videos about Zen and how to use Zeiss confocals

Have a look!

Magic clarity :)

Remember that with passive clarity, you can make most tissues transparent in order to image them.

The challenge may be to get the antibody to penetrate fully if your tissue is very thick but clarity removes lipid so it also helps with antibody penetration. If your protein expresses a fluorescent protein, you skip this problem and clarity preserves fluorescence.

You can then mount your tissue and image it on our microscopes! 🙂 It’s magic!! 🙂

Confocal endoscopy talk in Uppsala

Interesting seminars in Uppsala. Apparently this endoscope can go inside our bodies and has has tiny objective of only 300um!

They will also present at KI (if you are interested contact Gilles Cestelli gilles(at)maunakeatech(dot)com)

Imaging job in Finland :)

Postdoc and facility manager at once in Helsinki!

Check it out here!

Microscopy workshop in Stockholm

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. 🙂

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