Microscopy Resources
Microscope Companies
Leica
Nikon
Olympus
Zeiss
Laser scanning confocal microscopes
Leica (4
pi, TCS SP5)
Nikon
C1
plus confocal microscope
Nikon
LiveScan SFC
Olympus
(Fluoview
1000 dual scan, Fluoview 300, Spinning disk)
Zeiss
(5
Live, 510, Meta, Confocor 3)
Olympus
spinning disk
Solamere
Perkin
Elmer Ultraview Spinning disk microscope
Web microscopy sites
Nikon Microscopy U
Olympus Microscopy Resource Center
Molecular Expressions: exploring the world of optics and microscopy
Zeiss - Microscopy from the very beginning
Optical sectioning microscopy - Conchello and Lichtman
Fiber optic fluorescence imaging - Flusberg et al
Deep tissue two photon microscopy - Helmchen and Denk
Fluorescence microscopy - Lichtman and Conchello
A guide to selecting fluorescent proteins - Shaner, Steinbach and Tsien
Article from R. Tsien on localization of proteins Science
312: 5771 (2006)
Douglas Murphy book "Fundamentals of light microscopy and electronic
imaging" Amazon $80.91
Other books
Cornell Multiphoton Excitation
Site (with multiphoton cross section data,
etc)
CARS microscopy (Sunny
Xie)
STED (Stephan Hell)
Patterned illumination (Mats G. Gustafsson)
Optical filters
Chroma Technology -- Paul Milman (pmilman@chroma.com);
Michael Stanley (m@chroma.com)
-- Handbook
of optical filters for fluorescence microscopy
-- Handbook of filter sets for fluorescent proteins
-- Application notes on FRET
Omega Optical
Semrock
Mercury arc light source for fluorescence microscopes
EXFO
Ti Sapphire companies
Coherent
Spectra-Physics
Kapteyn-Murnane
Optical components
Newport
Thor Labs
New Focus
Melles Griot
Edmund
Cooled CCD cameras
Hamamatsu Orca
Photometrics CoolSnap (Roper)
Andor
Diagnostic Instruments (Spot)
Red Shirt
QImaging (Retiga)
Cooke
Corporation (Sensicam)
EM-CCD introduction
Deconvolution
Deltavision (Applied Precision)
MetaMorph (Universal
Imaging now Molecular Devices)
IP Lab (Scanalytics
now BD Biosciences)
OpenLab, Volocity (Improvision)
Nenad Amodaj MicroManage
iMaris (Bitplane)
Molecular Probes (now Invitrogen)
Cytoskeleton, Inc
Clontech
MBL International (CoralHue / Kaede, Dronpa)
Tsien variants
TIRF systems
FRET tutorial
Immunohistochemistry methods
IHC World
Fluorescence spectra
Invitrogen Fluorescence spectra viewer
Electron microscopy
JEOL
Pelco
BIY confocal
National Instruments
Cambridge Technology
NEOS Technologies
Hamamatsu PMTs
Uniblitz / Vincent Associates
Mathworks Matlab
Svoboda lab software
Journal Cell Biology: how to image an article by Alison North
Some recent papers by faculty and lecturers
Commons Glutamatergic
axons in the raphe nucleus (Eur J Neuroscience)
Kuhn A new voltage
sensitive dye (Biophysical J.)
Micheva Effect
of sub-physiological temperatures on synaptic function and plasticity (J.
Neuroscience)
Misgeld In
vivo imaging of injured spinal cord (Nature Medicine)
Oertner Review
of "Glow in the Dark" (Nature)
Reese Composition
of the post synaptic density (PNAS)
Smith Axonal
mechanisms in synaptogenesis in zebrafish brain (J Neuroscience)
Terasaki Permeability
changes following membrane repair (J. Gen. Physiol.)
Thompson Transgenic
mice with GFP- glia (J Neuroscience)
Zimmerberg Primer:
Membrane Biophysics (Current Biology)
Winfried Denk Serial
block face scanning electron microscopy to reconstruct three dimensional
tissue
nanostructure. (PLOS)
Kristin Harris Ultrastructural
changes in dendritic spines during long term potentiation (Philos Trans
Royal Soc)
Ryohei Yasuda Ras
activation in spines observed by 2 photon FLIM (Nature Neurosci)
---- and
Neuroscience
blog
David Zenisek Coupling between clathrin coated pit invagination, cortactin recruitment,
and membrane scission (Cell 121:593 (2005))
Marge Livingstone A
cortical region consisting entirely of face-selective cells (Science)
Fritz Zernike Nobel Prize Lecture 1953 "How I discovered phase contrast"
Ernst Ruska Nobel Prize Lecture 1986 "Development of the electron microscope
and of electron microscopy"
Keffer Hartline Nobel Prize lecture 1967 Visual receptors and retinal interaction
George Wald Nobel Prize lecture 1967 The molecular basis of visual excitation
Alan Hodgkin Nobel Prize lecture 1963 The ionic basis of nervous conduction
Andrew Huxley Nobel Prize lecture 1963 The quantitative analysis of conduction
and excitation in nerve
Giovanni Battista Amici - inventor of oil immersion lens (1840), water immersion lens (1855), amici-bertrand lens for looking at the back focal plane of the objective, cytoplasmic streaming in plants, pollen tubes, among other things
Steve: Remembranes of Stephen W. Kuffler
NB students from previous years (from 1996,
not complete)
NB course faculty from previous years (not done yet)
The Professor
and the Fish (a story involving Louis Agassiz, a founder of the MBL)
Jacques Loeb
FR Lillie
Charles Whitman