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Website designed and maintained by
Cameron J. Nowell
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Institutes and Other Microscopy Facilities
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The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research is a global research institute that has two branches in Melbourne, Australia. The Centre for Advanced Micrsocpy is located in the Parkville Branch. |
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The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - Research Division houses a high class microscopy facility. The Microscopy Core provides support for both internal and external users, especially in regards to electron microscopy. |
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The Walter and Eliza Hall Imaging facility houses a range of confocal and widefield microscopes including a Zeiss 5Live fast line scan confocal capable of 180 frames a second |
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The La Trobe University Department of Biochemistry has a range of imaging systems including widefeild, confocal and FCS. |
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Monash Micro Imaging provides a large range of microscopy equipment and expertise for use by Monash University staff and students, as well as external users. |
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Interest Groups
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Fluorescent Applications in Biotechnology and Life Sciences (FABLS) is an ARC/NHMRC network dedicated to inspire and coordinate multi-disciplinary research into applications of fluorescence which require a hig degree of interaction of expertise in biology, physics, chemistry, bioengineering and medicine. |
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The Fluourecence Imaging Group (FIG) of Victoria. FIG was formed to support and develop fluorecent imaging techniques. |
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Software
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Developed by Molecular Devices this is the bread an butter image analysis suite (and cpature platform) for CAM |
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Fiji is an image processing package. It can be described as a distribution of ImageJ together with Java, Java 3D and a lot of plugins organized into a coherent menu structure. Fiji compares to ImageJ as Ubuntu compares to Linux. |
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Imaris is Bitplane's core software module that delivers all the necessary functionality for visualization, segmentation and interpretation of 3D and 4D microscopy datasets. Combining speed, precision and ease-of-use, Imaris provides a complete set of features for working with three- and four-dimensional multi-channel images of any size, from a few megabytes to multiple gigabytes in size |
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The most sophisticated of the suite of products, NIS-Elements AR is optimized for advanced research applications. It features fully automated acquisition and device control through full six-dimensional image acquisition and analysis. |
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Information Sites
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The Molecular Expressions site contains a plethora of microscopy information, images and tutorials. |
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MicroscopyU is ran by Nikon. While providing information about Nikon microscopes it also provides detailed information and tutorials about basic microscpy and fluorecence concepts. |
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The Microscopy Resource Center is ran by Olympus. Like MicroscopyU it provides information about the companies equipment but also has a large collection of tutorials and interative java applets demonstrating microscopy concepts. |
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The human protein atlas shows expression and localization of proteins in a large variety of normal human tissues, cancer cells and cell lines with the aid of immunohistochemistry (IHC) images and immunofluorescence (IF) confocal microscopy images. |
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