Join us for a FREE Hands-on Workshop on Olympus Light/Fluorescence BX53 microscope (May 13th, 2019)!
We have a New Olympus Light/Fluorescence BX53 microscope! And with a fond farewell, we have decommissioned the venerable Zeiss Axioplan2 after 18 years of service at the BIF. What’s new about Olympus BX53 upright microscope? – a fully motorized X-Y Prior sample stage for image stitching, tiling & multi-position acquisition. – a DP80 Dual-chip high-resolution […]
SPOTLIGHT: Plants have unique aspects of the spatiotemporal regulation of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and plasma membrane (PM) connectivity in response to the environmental stress.
April 2019, written by Adrian Li & Dr. Eunkyoung Lee BIF equipment used : Olympus FV1000 confocal microscope, PE Spinning disk confocal microscope Plants sense and respond to changes of environmental conditions, such as drought, extreme temperatures, and salinity. At the intercellular level, highlycoordinated stress response occurs among various organelles. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a […]
Register FREE AMIRA workshop (May 24th 2-5pm)
AMIRA is a powerful imaging software for 3D reconstruction and image analysis. This software is available in the UBC Bioimaging facility as well as in the Centre for High-Throughput Phenogenomics (CHTP). This half-day workshop will consist of a brief presentation and hands-on exercises intended for new and existing users of Thermo Scientific™ Amira for Cell […]