Cell Biology and Image Acquisition
Imaging Competition 2021
NEW! The BioWave will help you speed up your fixation and staining!
Booking Rules
Your Acknowledgement matters!
What's new?
CBIA Job Position open!
We want to thank Dr. Ian Blum for his outstanding service for the past 8 months and congratulate him on his new position at CIHR.
If you are interested, or someone you know, in the Microscopy specialist position , please contact john.copeland@uottawa.ca
Lunch 'n' Learn: We need you!
The Lunch ‘n’ Learn has been a time for you to exchange with other students and learn (we hope) new microscopy techniques from sample preparation all the way to image analysis.
Chloë and Ian thoroughly enjoyed this bi-weekly event and plan to organize it again next year!
Let us know how you liked/disliked it and contribute to the potential topics for next year.
Please help us improve it by answering this 2 min survey :https://forms.office.com/r/uypimEwGi9
Thank you!
CONNECT TO R:drive
Due to some windows update we lost the "Medmap" tool on our workstation to connect to the Research drive.
New instructions here:
How to map Research drive manually.mp4
Need Something to Read! Check our useful links !
StayGold: a new GFP for live imaging with unprecedented photostability
When Light Meets Biology - how the specimen affects quantitative microscopy
Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness
Publishers unite to tackle doctored images in research papers and Check the guide about Image integrity
Creating Clear and Informative Image-based Figures for Scientific Publications
Effective image vizualization for publications
Tutorial: guidance for quantitative confocal microscopy
Sharper signals: how machine learning is cleaning up microscopy images
The hunt for red fluorescet proteins
When antibodies mislead: the quest for validation
Light Microscopy webinar series by Global BioImaging & ZEISS Microscopy
Webinar series are free of charge and everyone is invited to attend the webinars.
New booking and billing system: Infinity from Idea Elan
Schedule a reservation on Infinity website.
“Infinity Help” session via Teams 12PM-1PM until Tuesday July 13th
LSM800 New Objective 25x Multi-immersion!
The new objective 25x is a glycerine immersion objective will allow to image organoids, spheroids and thick tissue on the confocal LSM800.
If you think you have an application for it, feel free to contact cbiacore@uottawa.ca

"Following Story" at Facmed devoted to CBIA core: "Not just a pretty picture"
Read the article.