Dear users,

Depending on your interest we might be entitled to test a very important compact setup for in vivo imaging made by Optiscan (for more information please have a look at the  flyer). Please consider this setup might be useful also to colleagues working in the hospital and that are not using the imaging facility. Please do not hesitate to diffuse to them this information.

If interest from you arises please contact me (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and there might be the chance to test this very interesting device.

Best wishes

Antonio Virgilio Failla

Dear users,

Thanks to all of you the light microscopy facility has achieved incredible milestones, personal as well as scientific.

We are aiming to celebrate with all of you one of those: our user number 1000.

The user number 1000 prize will be given on Friday 01.03.2024 in seminar room 14 at 5pm.

The user number 1000 prize will give us the chance to organize a buffet with Italian Chinese, German and maybe also your favorite food.....

In order to organize food and drinks If you wish to participate (and you are all super warmly invited to do so) please register on this link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bIfcwO1KOWy__x2AMLd5_G0pjNjzVnJhm0tXA_WxvYo/edit?usp=sharing

As you can see from the registration form if you wish you can join us preparing some food but this is a free willing option

We are looking forward to share with you good food and mood

best wishes

Antonio Virgilio Failla

Sven Hey (Ag Linder) has recently published “KIF16B drives MT1-MMP recycling in macrophages and promotes co-invasion of cancer cells” in “Life Science Alliance” (DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202302158). Beside that we are all warmly invited to read this very interesting work, we take much pride to inform you that one of the images associated to this manuscript has been awarded to be the cover image for the entire issue!!!

Congratulation to Sven that expressed his scientific and imaging talent using UMIF microscopes

About the image: Spheroid of H1299 carcinoma cells expressing GFP (green), embedded in collagen I matrix, together with primary human macrophages; F-actin of both cell types stained by Alexa568-phalloidin (red), nuclei by DAPI (blue); maximum projection of confocal z-stack.

The cover image was acquired by using UMIF´s SP8 microscope.

Dear users.
Our workshop season becomes hot:
The next appointment I would like to bring to your attention is with Evident.
Evident will promote a compact, easy to handle, powerful slide scanner imaging system that is not the classical wide field slide scanner: it can produce images with confocal resolutions also in 3D.

When: 26.09-28.09.
Where:    lecture: seminar room 14, building N27
               practical sections: seminar room 1, building N45

To get more information and for the registration link please look at the flyer below (registration is free of charge).
As always you are all warmly invited to join and let join everyone might with to participate.

Thank you very much to make this fantastic imaging community
best wishes

Antonio Virgilio Failla