Working on the Leica SPE2: Entry: General entrance AG East 1 st floor, direct right turn to access the Confocal room O.161, knock before entry and apply to the hygiene rules that are supplied. A second person can be present in the room yet distance of 1.5 m should be kept at all times. Exit:…

The CCI is re-opening for microscopy from the 19th of May 2020. We hope everybody is safe at home trying to get a work routine partly at home and for essential work in the lab. Great initiatives to learn microscopy related (and unrelated)  courses are collected here (https://www.rms.org.uk) and on ibiology or MOOCs, this may…

The OMX has been serviced , the OTFs have been updated and saved as default for SIM reconstructions. A 10x objective is available now to perform tile scans for sample overviews. The 4th camera is non functional due to a power failure, repair parts are on order. So for now, the far red detection is…

A newly developed joystick is installed on the OMX-V4, it allows navigating through a sample, mark and start acquisition/mosaic. It is a bit fast but with practice will help you find the best cells more efficiently. Few new features are implemented during the last service visit (for example: laser power tuning), ask CCI staff to…

The OMX system has been serviced and new OTFs have been generated. The current OTF set that is selected  in SoftWoRx should be used for reconstructions, do not change it!  

The Bio-Imaging Utrecht community organizes an ImageJ/FIJI workshop for experienced users on Tuesday the 4th of April. Previous sessions were very well appreciated and they allow you to interact with experts in IJ coding. You can learn image analyses automation and the experts can help you find, tweak and apply the proper plugin(s) for you specific…

On Tuesday 28th of February to Wednesday the 1st of March the OMX will be unavailable. A sCMOS PCO camera will be replaced and the system will be fully re-aligned.

The OMX has been serviced and new OTFs have been made. We recommend using these. A strange bug in the acquisition software causes the 405 nm laser line (1st channel) to present wrong values, i.e. intensity % of the laser in the drop-down list do not represent the actual values. The desktop background picture of…

This week the filter drawer changer that was locked has been repaired. The system was serviced and softWoRx packages on the Windows master acquisition station and the workstations have been updated.

On the OMX imaging system, channel alignment is repeatedly disturbed by incorrect placement of the automated filter drawer (which sets in every time at startup) . A GE scientist is coming to solve this issue (in the week of February the 29th). Until then the filter drawer will be fixed to the BGR position to maintain…