Harvard Center for Biological Imaging

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Keep an eye out on this page! We'll soon be back with news about our latest systems, upgrades, Lunch & Learn presentations and much more!

We wish all our facility users and followers on Facebook a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. May 2017 bring prosperity, good health and many discoveries (preferably at HCBI 😉)!

Sebastian Gliem will help us celebrate ZEISS Microscopy Carl Zeiss’ 200th birthday. Hear about the history of microscopy and the ZEISS Group company. Also enter your name in a raffle to win a $500 voucher for the HCBI. Next Wednesday, September 14, at noon. More info: http://hcbi.fas.harvard.edu/event/lunch-and-learn-history-microscopy

Lunch and Learn: History of Microscopy Sebastian Gliem will help us celebrate Carl Zeiss’ 200th birthday. Hear about the history of microscopy and the ZEISS company. Also, enter your name in a raffle to win a $500 voucher for the HCBI.

Lunch&Learn, tomorrow at 12PM in Room 1080 of the Biological Labs: Sebastian Gliem talks about optimizing your experiment settings to get the best results in fluorescence imaging. More info: http://ow.ly/uM643035AGR. As always, pizza on the house!

Optimizing your experiments Which microscope should you choose? How can you optimize all of those settings in ZEN to improve your image quality? Sebastian Gliem will tell you how!

Next Wednesday, 07/06, Doug Richardson will be talking about Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging at the Lunch&Learn session. Don't miss it, as FLIM has been added as a new application to our microscope systems! More info: http://ow.ly/PbfX301Urgv

Lunch and Learn - Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Doug Richardson will be speaking on fluorescence lifetime, a unique characteristic of each fluorophore, and how it can be exploited with new equipment at the HCBI.

Great Nature Communications article shows a deeper insight in replication and maturation of malaria parasites. Our ZEISS Microscopy LSM710 ELYRA PS.1 was used to visualize the localization of PfMOP (P. falciparum merozoite organizing protein) in three dimensions.

Congrats to the Stevens lab! Great ZEISS Microscopy ELYRA images reveal insights to Alzheimer's disease: Science - http://bit.ly/1RRzKCr

Complement and microglia mediate early synapse loss in Alzheimer mouse models ReportNEURODEVELOPMENT Complement and microglia mediate early synapse loss in Alzheimer mouse models Soyon Hong1, Victoria F. Beja-Glasser1,*, Bianca M. Nfonoyim1,*, Arnaud Frouin1, Shaomin Li2, Saranya Ramakrishnan1, Katherine M. Merry1, Qiaoqiao Shi2, Arnon Rosenthal3,4,5, Ben A. Barres6, Cynthia…

Great Tissue Clearing poster from ZEISS Microscopy referencing Cell Press article from D. Richardson & J. Lichtmann. Download here: http://ow.ly/YHey5

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Today we mourn the death of a great mind: Marvin Minsky. Thanks for all Marvin, especially the confocal microscope which nearly all of us use on a daily base, but there was so much more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/01/25/marvin-minsky-1927-2016/

“The world has lost one of its greatest minds in science.” R.I.P. Marvin Minsky The death of a founder of the field of artificial intelligence.

We would like to wish everyone a wonderful 2016, and to all researchers here, many great publications! Our resolution for this year, is to improve on supporting your imaging & analysis needs, whether you are an academic or private company researcher. Let us know how we could help you even better!