The Atomic Force microscope has been moved to the chemistry department. The group of Igmar Swart who works on the chemistry and physics of 2D materials (www) is dedicated to AFM imaging assuring frequent operation  and service of the system. Contact Igmar, Joost van der Lit or Bart Gadella if you have imaging questions for this microscope.

We have discontinued the service to provide secundary fluorescently labelled antibodies. So, please be aware that you are taking our personal stocks when you remove aliquots from our freezer. Contact us when you need a specific secondary antibody, we can supply an aliquot or help you find someone who has a suitable dye conjugate. Why? This…

Yet another initative of the BioImaging Utrecht platform. For all users that struggle to get started with image analysis. FIJI is an excellent freeware package to do this, experts of the Utrecht imaging community help to get you started. Here’s the flyer with registration link ImageJ beginner_2014

Bioimaging Utrecht_special seminar (pdf)

We experience a busy schedule for booking the scopes, even in the current summer vacation period. Recently, a booking was placed that lasted several days. We will not allow this to happen again, even though it was announced beforehand and people were allowed to break into the booking when they really needed. We will implement longer…

Regrettably, the Biorad Multiphoton system is no longer in service. We are going to move the femtosecond Tsunami laser to the Biology Department where Corette Wieringa will be building it into an existing photomanipulation system to give it yet another functional use. We are negotiating with Nienke Vrisekoop, Kikki Tesselaar and Leo Koenderman from the UMCU…

We are in competition for the investment round to support facilities of the Utrecht University. Main applicants Stoorvogel and Akhmanova aim to strengthen the UU bioimaging society possibilities to do superresolution, photomanipulation and multiphoton imaging. The application requests two of the newest microscopes to perform imaging at the highest level in live cells, one to be…

Please take notice of the spring meeting of our Utrecht BioImaging community next Tuesday the 27th of May. The program is given here.

We borrowed a stereoscope from the Biochemistry and Cell Biology department. It is “Little Red Riding Hood” and is very useful to prepare large specimen such as Oocytes, Zebrafish and C.elegans for microscopy. Its a loan and can be taken back to B&C for teaching purposes, so we need to keep it clean and in…

Information about the Advaced ImageJ/FIJI workshop on the website of the BIU(www). The program of coming BIU meetings is published as well at this location (BIU).