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The Microscopy Alliance

The University of Arizona

A collaborative effort to bring information about shared microscopy facilities to the University of Arizona and the community.

COVID-19 status of UA microscopy facilities.

Luxol fast blue (histology stain for myelin)

Polarized light microscopy - picrosirious red stain of optic nerve

AFM image of spin coated biodegradable polymer (polycaprolactone). (15 micron image) Jessi Gamboa (Yoon Group) and Brooke Beam

AFM image of Perylene deposited on highly ordered pyrolytic graphite. (2 micron image) Derek Mangelsdorf (Armstrong Group) and Brooke Beam

SEM image of the top of a Blue Papilio blumei butterfly wing. Brooke Beam

SEM image of a circuit board. Dee Belle-Oudry

SEM image of the compound eye of Drosophila fly. Dick Vreeland (Heien Group)

SEM image of the broken edge of mechanical pencil lead. Brooke Beam

Liver - Oil Red O stain for lipids (cryostat section) - CMM Histology Service Lab, Cromey

Widefield and deconvolved image of fluorescently labeled fibroblasts - Patty Jansma

TEM - Multi-lamina lipid bilayers showing cross-hatch pattern. Ammonium molybdate negative stain (Tony Day)

TEM Skeletal muscle with misplaced Z bands (Tony Day for Gregorio Lab)

TEM - Metallic nano particles. Unstained (Nick Pavlopoulos – Pyun Lab)

SEM image of Strontianite (SrCO3) crystals grown on a calcite surface

Did you know that...

The HHMI Janelia Farms Advanced Imaging Center is available to support your research that requires the use of cutting edge light microscopy technologies?

This is an amazing offer, underwitten by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. The call for proposals goes out twice a year.

Free, open source software for controlling light microscopes is available?

MicroManager is free, open source software for controlling motorized microscopes, stages, filter wheels, shutters, cameras, COM ports

Elements of design are important for communicating science?

Over the last several years (2010-present) Nature Methods has run a series of short (usually 1-2 page) articles called "Points of View" that discussed topics including:

There is an enhanced version of ImageJ called FIJI?

ImageJ is a free and very capable image analysis software made available from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The software was written by Wayne