Other facilities in U of A

1. Advanced Imaging Facility in Biological Sciences:
2. Cell Biology TEM and Confocal microscopy:     
3. Cell imaging Facility at FoMD:
4. NanoFab                                                                  

Useful Links:

These are collections of links which might be useful for the Facility users.
Please report broken link to xjsun@ualberta.ca
Disclaimer: The Facility has no commercial interests nor endorses any of the products

Light microscopy:
These links provides information from general to advanced light microscopy.  Some contains great Java tutorial about optics and confocal/multi-photon microscopy.

• Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer. Very comprehensive site for light Microscopy.
• Nikon Microscopy U
• Olympus Microscopy Resource Center
• Zeiss Campus contains many useful info on advanced optics/applications (spinning disk confocal and comparison with Laser scanning confocal, colocalization, spectral imaging, etc.).
• iBiology Microscopy Course - Light microscopy course video taught by world experts

Deconvolution:    http://support.svi.nl/wiki/
         in particular a Nyquist calculator page for optimizing sampling rate BEFORE acquiring image for decon.

• NyquistCalculator

FRET information:

• http://www.kcci.virginia.edu/fret-microscopy

FLIM:  http://www.kcci.virginia.edu/facility/flim1

FRAP/FLIP: http://fluoview.magnet.fsu.edu/applications/flipandfrap.html

FCS Zeiss Campus FCS
 
Microscopy listserves:
Confocal: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CONFOCALMICROSCOPY
Microscopy (more EM inclined): http://www.microscopy.com/
Histonet:        http://www.histosearch.com/histonet.html

Image Acquisition/processing software:

• Metamorph:            Molecular Devices- Metamorph
• Slide book:             https://www.intelligent-imaging.com/slidebook
• ImageJ:                 https://imagej.net/Fiji      
• Cellprofiler:  https://cellprofiler.org/
• Ilastik: https://www.ilastik.org/
• Icy: http://icy.bioimageanalysis.org/
• Imaris:    http://www.bitplane.com/
• Arivis:  https://www.arivis.com/
• Amira: Amira Thermo
• Volocity:

Microscopy supplies:
           Glass bottom culture dish/plate for live cell imaging
           Nunc chambered slides: Fisher Scientific, VWR, etc.
           WPI:  WPI-dishes
          Grace lab. (Reusable-gaskets) for silicon based gasket/spacers for microscopy imaging
           
TEM lab supplies:
            Ted pella:        http://www.tedpella.com/
            EMS               http://www.emsdiasum.com/