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Our new Zeiss LSM Airyscan confocal microscope has been delivered and installed and is open for training and booking.https://caic.bio.cam.ac.uk/microscopes/confocal/zeiss-lsm-900-airyscan-2It can function as a standard confocal microscope with full incubation (temperature, humidity, CO2) but also offers the possibility to do super-resolution imagin…

Meet Kevin O'Holleran, Martin Lenz and Leila Muresan for advice on all matters related to super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM), Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy and Single Molecule Localisation Microscopy (SMLM) are all available through CAIC.Come along to find out how to best use these sy…

Two new PhD students have joined CAIC, both from the Integrated Photonics and Electronics CDT. Sarah Benaissa will be working in CAIC to explore the potential of lightfield microscopy for high resolution imaging and Alex Collins will be co-supervised by CAIC as he develops approaches to increase information and throughput in Single Molecule Localis…

Congratulations to Dr Sohaib Abdul Rehman who joins Dr Ruth Sims, who completed her PhD late last year, as CAIC's academic alumni.His thesis is titled Deep Super-resolution Microscopy: Novel Developments and Optimisations. His research specialised in optimising Single Molecule Localisation Microscopy for challenging applications requiring imaging i…

Congratulations to Ruth! After passing her viva she is officially CAIC's first finished PhD student. Well done Dr Sims! Her thesis is titled Volumetric imaging across spatio-temporal scales in biology with fluorescence microscopy. Her work focuses on light sheet and light field imaging modalities to improve imaging speed and depth of field at both …

As a collaborative effort between the Department of Genetics and CAIC a new state-of-the art STED super-resolution microscope has been acquired and installed in the department of Genetics. This microscope is open to all and can be booked and used through the CAIC booking system. For further information please see the info on our website or contact …

Focus on Microscopy 2017The light microscopy team attended Focus on Microscopy 2017 in Bordeaux . Ruth Sims gave presentations on her work with light sheet microscopy for cancer research applications and light field imaging. Martin Lenz presented his work on automated sample following in a custom built light sheet microscope. Sohaib Abdul Rehman pr…

Müller glia provide essential tensile strength to the developing retinaCAIC's 2-photon microscope was used in the recently published work by MacDonald et. al. to show that Müller glia act like springs in the retina. The Insight DeepSee laser in combination with an electro-opitcal modulator was used to quickly ramp the laser intensity up so that tis…

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The Big Neuron Hackathon starts next week! You can find more information here.

The CAIC team attended the 1st annual light sheet fluorescence conference in Barcelona at the end of September. Leila Muresan presented her work on the Double Helix Point Spread Function (DHPSF) in light sheet localisation microscopy and Martin Lenz presented the design of CAIC's light sheet microscope which utilises spatial light modulators and tu…

CAIC's new 2-photon fluorescence scanning microscope (the TriM Scope II from LaVision BioTec) has been installed and will soon be available to book.Our new two photon microscope has been installed and is now going through some testing and calibration. It will soon be available for training and booking. There are a few parts yet to be attached to th…

The Wellcome Trust funded Scientific Software Engineer position has been filled.The CAIC team is growing as we begin to fill the positions funded through the Wellcome Trust that will enable us to fully exploit the light sheet capability we are building. Leila will shortly be joining us from the Centre de Génétique Moléculaire in Gif-sur-Yvette.As o…

CAIC's new SEM, the FEI Verios XHR SEM will be installed in early 2014CAIC's current SEM will be replaced within the coming months by FEI's Verios 460 XHR SEM with Quorum cryotransfer and EDAX spectrometer. More details to follow.

CAIC's new 2 photon microscope, the TriM Scope II from LaVision BioTec will be installed and running in January 2014CAIC's new 2 photon microscope, the TriM Scope II from LaVision BioTec will be installed and running in January 2014. The system will be powered by the Insight DeepSee laser by Spectra Physics (the first installation in the UK). The I…