The Nanolive 3D Cell Explorer is available now! This novel new instrument will capture 30 micron z-stacks of your sample label-free. Think of it like phase contrast on steroids. With its incubation chamber you can do live imaging of your biological samples for days at a time. Contact Ben to arrange a test of the Nanolive to see if it works for you.

See more about it here: https://microscopy.nri.ucsb.edu/instrumentation/nanolive-3d-cell-explorer.

There a couple new items in the facility. The Hercules 2 analysis computer now has Huygens deconvolution software. This is the same deconvolution software that runs on the Leica SP8 confocal PC. It works with those same Leica images but also supports many other image filetypes. On great images you can get a little more resolution, but if you have a low signal-to-noise image it works great to smooth out the noise.

Ben is excited to start as the new Facility Director, and is looking forward to helping you with your microscopy needs. He earned his Ph.D in Physics studying Brownian ratchets and optical traps at University of Oregon. Most recently Ben worked a postdoctoral researcher in the Megan Valentine's lab here at UCSB investigating single-molecule protein diffusion on microtubules using a custom-built TIRF microscope.

Susannah H. Kassmer, Delany Rodriguez, Adam D. Langenbacher, Connor Bui & Anthony W. De Tomaso

Enrollment is open for MCDB 290MR, a graduate level seminar focused on light microscopy. Space is limitted.

Andor Academy comes to UCSB March 3-4, 2015

Semrock is hosting a learn at lunch on fluorescence filters Monday Jan 12, 12pm on Bio II rm4146. Everyone is welcome. They will be providing lunch
 

NRI-MCDB Microscopy Facility & "It's a Small World" Open House
Biology II Building Room 5173

The Department of Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology and the Neuroscience Research Institute welcome parents and families to interact with the microscopic world.  Experience UCSB's cutting-edge Light Microscopy Facility, which supports courses in Pharmacology, Immunology, Cell Biology and Light Microscopy and research campus wide.  See glowing worms and many other microscopic samples with the research instruments.

All are welcome to visit the NRI-MCDB Microscopy Facility 2-4pm, Oct, 2014

The Leica DCM8 is designed for non-contact 3D optical surface metrology. It combines advantages of High Definition confocal microscopy with interferometry into dual-core system. Ultra-fast analysis is ensured thanks to one-click mode selection, sophisticated software and HD confocal scanning without moving parts.

The system includes a HD CCD camera and 4 LED light sources (RGB and white), delivering realistic color imaging.

AFM-IR enables broadly applicable chemical analysis with spatial resolution 50-500X better than conventional IR spectroscopy and with sensitivity down to the scale of individual molecular monolayers.