You are invited to the annual Cell Sciences Imaging Facility Open House - a Service Center in the Beckman Center for Molecular & Genetic Medicine which specializes in fluorescent imaging microscopy. We've been making changes to keep current at the cutting edge, so stop by January 22, 1998 between 10 to 4 pm and see what's new!
The Cell Sciences Imaging Facility was developed to provide access to fluorescent microscopy techniques that might be beyond the equipment budget of most research grants. While CSIF originally offered only confocal microscopy, in the last year we've purchased Applied Precision's DeltaVision deconvolution system and the Zeiss Attofluor ratio imaging system for analyzing changes in ion levels (Ca or pH) in real time. Dean Waters from Applied Precision, Inc. and Dr. Gary Brooker from Atto Instruments, Inc. will be on hand personally to show their systems and answer any questions.
We know that image collection is only the first step in getting your data published, so we also have a public Macintosh computer dedicated to image processing (our software includes PhotoShop, Illustrator, and Canvas), we offer data archiving onto CD-ROM, and have a Tektronix Phaser 440 dye-sublimation printer capable of publication quality prints.
All of our microscopes are available on an hourly fee basis with free training, providing cost effective access to even the smallest labs.
This year we've also invited other vendors to showcase their new products, so we can take a peek at potential future offerings. Atto Instruments has recently released a new confocal module unit that can attach to Zeiss fluorescent microscopes, the CARV Direct View Confocal. This unit allows you to look by eye at the confocal optical slice and does not require a laser! Dr. Gary Brooker, President of Atto Instruments, Inc. will be at Stanford to demonstrate this new system.
Software in the imaging field is also changing rapidly and we have two great packages to demo. Dr. Michael Sjaastad from Universal Imaging Corp will show MetaMorph, a powerful image acquisition and analysis package which includes 3D analysis and movie making. Nathan O'Connor from AutoQuant will demonstrate AutoDeblur, a blind deconvolution package which allows deconvolution of stacks of images without measuring a point spread function.
For more information about the systems being demonstrated, please visit the company web sites.
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DeltaVision Deconvolution System | |
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CARV Direct View Confocal | |
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MetaMorph image analysis software | |
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AutoDeblur deconvolution software | |
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