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Cameron J. Nowell

 


Institutes and Other Microscopy Facilities
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.

   

 
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.

     
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
   

 
The La Trobe University Department of Biochemistry has a range of imaging systems including widefeild, confocal and FCS.

 
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.
 

 

 

Interest Groups
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.

   

 
The Fluourecence Imaging Group (FIG) of Victoria. FIG was formed to support and develop fluorecent imaging techniques.

   

 
 

 

 

 

Software
Developed by Molecular Devices this is the bread an butter image analysis suite (and cpature platform) for CAM

   

 
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.

   

 

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

 
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.
 
 

 

 

Information Sites
The Molecular Expressions site contains a plethora of microscopy information, images and tutorials.

   

 
MicroscopyU is ran by Nikon. While providing information about Nikon microscopes it also provides detailed information and tutorials about basic microscpy and fluorecence concepts.

   

 

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.

 
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.