CCI – Centre for Cell Imaging

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BioImaging Utrecht Fall Meeting 2016: Tuesday 29th of November

The BioImaging community in Utrecht has its quarterly meeting on Tuesday November the 29th.  Gerhard Blab will talk about the possibilities and mistakes in image analysis anddifferent microscope manufacturers will talk about and demo small microscopes in the Stratenum Building. At the end, the Imaging contest winners will be announced. <flyer> Date: November 29th 2016…

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Safety cabinet placed in corridor

A  flow cabinet to safely work with GGOs is placed in the corridor of the CCI microscopy space. This cabinet is the property of the LTI (UMCU-WKZ) and will mainly be used by users of the Zeiss multiphoton. Guest use is allowed yet leave the working space clean, properly dispose of waste and make sure you do…

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Backup cryostat has been removed from the CCI

The backup Leica cryostat that had issues with the cooling unit could no longer be repaired and has been removed from the CCI. Fortunately, Rob had foreseen this and  arranged finances for a new cryostat last year. So cryostat work can still continue at the CCI but tighter planning is required when large series are going…

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Netstorage problem

We are experiencing problems with our netstorage. The central storage is currently not available so you will not be able to upload or download data. The data are secured and will be available again soon. Watch this blog for updates.  

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Leica SPE-II shifted in room O-101

We have an old building that is leaky, a serious water spill occurred when the last storm hit the east wing of the Androclus building. The equipment (the SPEII) was not damaged due to the swift action of Martijn Moolenaar (thanks again). Apparently, the rain leaked into the building at multiple departments and it is a…

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CCI has a twitter account

I started a twitter account (@CCI_FVM) to provide a way to get notified if something is happening at the CCI. Essentially this blog is meant to do this, but it is not so effective in reaching you as a user. The tweets will be replicates of the titles this blog, and a link to the message is provided….

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New gastank storage in the corridor

The storage for gas tanks (CO2, N2) in the CCI corridor has been replaced and moved to make space for the flow cabinet that will be positionned in the recess behind it. Beware that the corridor has become more shallow because of the move.

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ImageJ beginners course

Bioimaging Utrecht again arranges the ImageJ beginners course on October 13, 2015. The flyer can be downloaded here, as well as the registration form. It is a highly recommended way to get introduced into the ImageJ/FIJI image analysis by image processing experts.

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DATA storage testing

A StorSimple backup system has been  implemented by ITS.  We have tested it for a couple of months and it seems to perform well. The extra network drive is available on all imaging machines (except for the Zeiss NLO system, that will be connected to the net in the coming weeks) and can be found…

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Matlab campus licence is available now

Matlab is now available as a campus licence. We installed the newest version of Matlab on our windows workstations (the NIS workstation, the Imaris Workstation and Richard’s PC). The IT department will inform you how to install MATLAB on your computer via its licence manager.

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