Enter the Nikon Small World!

Last call! Deadline 30th April!

Send your entries to the Nikon Small World image competition! Really nice prizes to be won including a trip to the Nikon headquarters in Japan! Many of the images produced daily at our facility are at the level of what is in their gallery so grab the chance! 🙂

20h of image analysis help for free!

Did you know about the BioImage Informatics Facility at Scilife? This is a great facility for image analysis. You can get 20h of expert help for free? Contact Petter Ranefall to get help with your analysis!

Microscopy job in Paris :)

Several postdoctoral positions are opened at the Institute Pasteur (Paris, France) and at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA) to visualize the topological and functional dynamics of small regulatory pieces of DNA, called enhancers, in the animal genome. Successful candidates will join a collaborative and interdisciplinary venture between the research groups of biophysicist Thomas Gregor and various collaborators at both institutes.

GOAL:

The dynamic organization of the genome in time and space plays a crucial role in the functional specification of a cell. In particular the interplay between multiple distant enhancers and their target gene promoters has critical mechanistic consequences on gene activity patterns during cell differentiation and development. We are developing state-of-the-art high-resolution live imaging techniques to resolve multiple enhancers in space and time to correlate the 3D motion of the DNA polymer with gene activity. The challenge is to develop the right imaging modalities that optimize our need for high temporal and spatial resolution, and to image a large field of view with multiple (>4) colors simultaneously.

PROFILE:

Candidates will have a strong interest for collaborative and interdisciplinary research. They should have a proven successful track record equipped with one, but ideally a combination of the following skills:

*         live-cell microscopy, single molecule imaging

*         microscope design and implementation

*         hard- and software design for microscope control

*         computational image analysis

Ability to work in collaboration with members of the lab and international collaborators in a dynamic, diverse and multinational group is essential. English is the working language.

Inquiries regarding the position and specific projects should be addressed to Thomas Gregor (tg2@princeton.edu<mailto:tg2@princeton.edu> ). Applications should include a statement of research interests and motivation, a CV, and contact information for three references. Applications will be reviewed as soon as they are received. Funding is available for multiple positions but candidates will be encourage to apply for independent competitive grants.

Multiphoton beauty!

Here is our winner for the very first LCI Image of the week! Karl Annusver’s mouse skin sections labelled with Tomato (red) and AF488 (green). The other channels are label free imaging of fibers like collagen that either autofluoresce at the wavelengths used (690 and 780 nm) or give very nice Second Harmonic Generation. This allows us to visualize the unlabelled tissue surrounding the labelled cells.

Thanks Karl! 🙂

2017 Alumni gathering @ Soldaten Svejk

Fun to see you all and thanks for helping the LCI facility hop over Saint Patrick’s day! Cool discussions and great company! 🙂

Image analysis job in Uppsala!

Loads of jobs around here lately! 🙂

Check out this link to the image analysis job in Uppsala.

 

Facility manager job in Stockholm!

Stockholm University is looking for a manager for their future intravital imaging facility! Rare opportunity!

Check out the ad here!

Easy label of live cells

How to easily label Golgi, cytoskeleton, endosomes, lysosomes… in live cells with CFP, GFP or RFP then be able to fix everything? It does sound like pure magic! Have a look here.

Time to show off! :)

Share your images at Sven-Harry’s museum of art

The Ragnar Söderberg Foundation has initiated an art project in order to present research in medicine. The project “The invisible body” aims to tell stories about research and what researchers do, and how they do it. Scientists are now invited to share their work for everyone to see. The foundation is looking for high-resolution pictures in very large sizes to present at an exhibition in November at Sven-Harry’s museum in Vasaparken, Stockholm.

Would you like to contribute? Contact: art(at)ragnarsoderbergsstiftelse.se

One more microscopy job, this time in Zurich :)

we have an open position at the Single Cell Facility ,  ETH, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE), Basel:

Microscopy Engineer / Microscopist (m/f)

Responsibilities are training and support of facility users. This includes microscopy instrument quality control and their maintenance. The microscopy engineer/microscopist will develop and implement customized configurations and the setup of the experimental workflows of experiments on the automated imaging systems.  The successful candidate will share responsibilities with our other microscopy expert and work closely together with our software engineer for image analysis and data management.

This position is available for 2 years and located in Basel.

Requirements are a degree from a technical college or a university with a proven experience in various advanced light microscopy and digital imaging technologies. She/he will have extensive technical experience with state-of-the-art light microscopy platforms such as confocal, live-cell imaging and/or SPIM. Strong knowledge of advanced quantitative imaging technologies as well as their underlying optical principles is required. Scripting experience is a plus. The candidate should have hands-on skills in microscopy component integration.

This position demands very good communication skills in English to interact with scientists and students, and the skill to adapt to the service character of the facility to successfully support scientific research and operations at the D-BSSE. Besides having excellent technical abilities in the field of light microscopy, the candidate must be an excellent team player and possess the ability to work in a variety of scientific areas.

The Single Cell Facility (SCF) is a central scientific core facility within the ETH Zurich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE), located in Basel. The SCF serves the department by providing technology and support in advanced (light-sheet, automated wide field, confocal) microscopy and flow cytometry.

For further information about the position, please contact Dr. Thomas Horn, by email: thomas.horn@bsse.ethz.ch (no applications).

Applications are only accepted online, please use the “Apply now” button at the link below. Please address it to: ETH Zurich, Roland Munz, Human Resources, CH-8092 Zurich.

https://apply.refline.ch/845721/5177/pub/en/index.html

Further information on our facility:

https://www.bsse.ethz.ch/scf

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