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Dr. Jingqian Chen, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Orlando Rojas’ lab (UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering), uses a Zeiss Crossbeam350 FIB-SEM to visualize monodispersed lignin particles (left, Dr. Jingqian Chen’s sample). She also used a Tecnai Spirit TEM to show branched silica particles with bacteria cellulose fibers (center, Dr. Dong Wang’s sample). Finally, Dr. Chen […]
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TEM micrograph of axons with myelin (shaded regions) in the corpus callosum of the mouse brain, acquired by Tecnai Spirit TEM. Image courtesy of Andrew Thompson, a PhD student in Bamji lab, Dept of Cellular and Physiological Sciences.
BINA Image Contest 2023 (Deadline October 2)
Bioimaging North America (BINA) is open to accepting subscriptions of light microscopy images for the image contest 2023! The top 3 images will receive a monetary prize and be featured in their newsletter and on social media. Annika Lea Schulz (Jean lab) was one of the top winners last year! More information can be found […]
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Focused On Scientific Imaging (FOSI) seminar is back for the month of September, and will take place on September 25th (Monday) at 12:30 pm in Michael Smith Laboratory (MSL) Auditorium 102 or Zoom (Hybrid). Directors, managers and staff from 7 UBC imaging facilities will be giving a talk about their facilities. It is a great opportunity for new […]
LSI imaging workshop_Leica Stellaris on July 6 and 7
LSI imaging core facility is organizing a two-day workshop (more workshop to follow) on July 6 and July 7. Each day it will have 3 sessions, 9:00AM, 11:00AM and 2: 00PM. If you are interested, please contact Guang Gao, facility manager (please find email address on the flyer below).
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Madhureeta Das Gupta, a PhD student in MacLachlan lab (UBC Chemistry), uses the FEI Tecnai Spirit TEM to visualize nanofibers that were formed through the co-assembly of Ni and Cu complexes. By changing the ratio of Ni/Cu complex, the length of the nanofibers can be controlled.
FOSI seminar on April 24th at 1pm: Image processing using deconvolution: a primer on why you should use it
Focused On Scientific Imaging (FOSI) seminar is back for the month of April, and will take place on April 24th (Monday) at 1 pm in Michael Smith Laboratory (MSL) Auditorium 102 or Zoom (Hybrid). Farid Jalali, Senior advanced microscopy systems specialist, will be giving a talk titled “Image processing using deconvolution: a primer on why you should […]
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Undergraduate students enrolled in BIOL321 used the Olympus BX53 light/fluorescence microscopy to look at oil bodies in liverworts. Images show autofluorescence of Ptilidium purcherrimum, image courtesy of Dr. Eunkyoung Lee (Optical microscopy staff at Bioimaging facility).
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The Zeiss Crossbeam 350 (XB350) has capabilities of Field-emission SEM, Focused-ion beam milling, 3D FIB-SEM, CryoSEM, and CryoFIB-SEM. Dr. Miki Fujita (BIF Research manager), Lucas Andrew (Graduate student in MacLachlan lab, UBC Chemistry) and Dr. Sam Livingston (Post-doc researcher in Keeling lab, UBC Botany) gave a talk for the FOSI seminar in February. If you […]
FOSI seminar: “Cryo-EM at HRMEM” and “Characterization of EspB, a T7SS virulent effector from Mycobacterium tuberculosis” on Mar 27th (Monday) at 1pm in the MSL auditorium of Zoom (Hybrid)
Focused On Scientific Imaging (FOSI) seminar is back for the month of March, and will take place on March 27th (Monday) at 1 pm in Michael Smith Laboratory (MSL) Auditorium 102 or Zoom (Hybrid). Claire Atkinson, Facility manager at UBC High Resolution Macromolecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy, will be giving a talk titled “Cryo-EM at HRMEM”, Guillermo Caballero Silva, […]