CCI – Centre for Cell Imaging

Organization issues

Booking time alterations

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…

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Renewal of the Multiphoton System

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…

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CCI and UU facility investment grant

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…

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New Preparation StereoScope Leica S6D

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…

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Cleaning Oil from systems!!!

We have seen considerable immersion oil pollution of the SPEII system. Users are instructed to clean the objectives with the propers cleaning papers and we urge you to clean the systems after use. Turn objective to a low  position and cover the objectives to prevent dirt accumulation.  

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Bioimaging Utrecht Winter meeting 21 01 2014

Tuesday  (21st of January), the BioImaging Utrecht community will have an open meeting on nanoscopy. Join to hear the latest on superresolution. Flyer can be obtained here. An update of the A1R software and the STORM software has been performed, functionally the 4.2 NIS version is identical (bugfixes) but the STORM module has improved possibilities for…

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Secundary Antibodies supply discontinued

We are going to discontinue the service to provide secundary fluorescently labelled antibodies. It was useful to maintain a relatively fresh stock that is continuously probed for functionality, this way users did not need to worry about out-of-date fluorescent antibodies. However, this service is too expensive to keep, and if users keep stocks as 50%…

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CCI app launched as html-app

To help users I have developed a HTML app (see QRcode below, for now- we are still in testing phase) to log mic setings and send to the user by mail, booking is also included and a checklist to guide STORM imaging is in there as well. Handy for keeping track of some settings you…

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