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Live Cell Imaging Seminars

Monash Micro Imaging is pleased to announce the following seminars which will take place in association with the Live Cell Imaging workshop being held between 1-4 December.  All are welcome: please rsvp to anna.jenkins@med.monash.edu.au for catering.  

 

Professor Daniel Axelrod, Univ Michigan.  

Photons have a bright future

1 December, 5:00 - 5:45pm, Lecture Theatre S2 

Over the last several decades, imaging has evolved from the production of qualitatively pretty pictures to a quantitatively rich and precise source of information.  Part of the progress is due to brilliant advances in technology (e.g., highly sensitive digital cameras) and to advances in brainpower (e.g., powerful mathematical analysis techniques and computerization).  But the real credit is due to the brightest entity of all: the photon, which has an impressive array of diverse properties that interact with and report upon the environment through which it passes.

Professor Axelrod is Professor Emeritus of Physics, and Research Scientist Emeritus in Biophysics, Univ. of Michigan (Ann Arbor). With over 100 publications, Prof Axelrod has made significant contributions to the field of biophysics and cell biology, including development of FRAP, TIRF and dynamic light scattering microscopy techniques, all in the quest for a quantitative analysis of the mobility of receptor proteins and lipids in living cells.

The seminar will be followed by refreshments

Rsvp: anna.jenkins@med.monash.edu.au

 

 

Stefan Schek, Leica Microsystems, Germany.

Confocal Matrix Screening Application. An Intelligent Mass Data Acquisition for Image-based High Content Analysis.

2 December, 5.00pm, G19 Building 75

Recent tendencies in Systems Biology require the acquisition of massive amounts of confocal data and images, in conjunction with automated detection of cell-specific features and rare events. An extension to the Leica TCS SP5 is described, which has been optimized for these tasks by flexible pattern screening with several autofocus modes.

This new approach to Leica Open Innovation will be achieved by providing open interfaces to integrate 3rd party image analysis software and to enable concurrent data exporting to Network attached Storage Servers for handling large data sets. The Mitocheck research project (www.mitocheck.org) is an example of a successful project collaboration of partners adapting to open standards. The gained project experiences and implemented prototype solutions in the course of this project serve as a base for this new product which is developed at Leica Microsystems and will be available in the near future.

At this early stage an overview of the main principles and features of this new solution will be presented.

Stefan is R&D project coordinator (software) at Leica Microsystems, responsible for

special projects with high-end scientific demands. Stefan has worked on integration of imaging technologies such as the first Leica real time fast resonant working scanner, and the 4PI Microscope project team which developed and build in license a microscope developed by of Dr.Stefan Hell.

The seminar will be followed by refreshments

Rsvp: anna.jenkins@med.monash.edu.au