News
Keep up-to-date with the Integrated Light Microscopy Core news!
Core Fair 2023
Tuesday October 31, 2023 11am-2pm GCIS Atrium Click the image below for a printable .pdf version
Meet Our New Core Staff!
Our founding Directors, Vytas Bindokas and Shirley Bond, have retired. While they enjoy their new-found interests, the Core continues to serve the University under the direction of Christine Labno. She is pleased to introduce two new Core staff members - Imaging...
ImageJ Summer Session 2023
Click read more to Register today! Friday July 14, 2023 9am to noon in KCBD 1103 ImageJ Summer Session covers the Basics and Intermediate material in one class. Taught by Christine Labno and Sponsored by the University of Chicago Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
Abbott 129 site CLOSED
On Tuesday, December 13, 2022 we moved the 3i Marianas and Leica 2-photon microscopes from Abbott 129 to the main site in KCBD 1250. The microscopes are re-assembled and available for use. The Abbott site is now closed for remodeling into space for another Core....
Abbott server decommissioned
As part of the move out of Abbott 129, the two Core data servers have been combined into one and the Abbott (IP ending in .24) server is no longer in use. If you had data on that server as of Monday, December 12, 2022, it is now on the KCBD (IP ending in .31) server....
Core Fair 2022
Thursday November 10, 2022 11am-3pm GCIS Atrium Click the image below for a printable .pdf version
Leica Summer Imaging Seminar Series 2022
Leica is hosting a VIRTUAL summer seminar series on topics in light microscopy imaging. Topics include introduction to confocal (week 1, Friday June 24th at noon CDT), fluorescence lifetime imaging (week 2, Friday July 1 at noon CDT), Super-resolution (week 3, Friday...
Change in billing policy – effective April 4, 2022
A change is necessary because the current policy has proven to be ineffective in curbing reservation of more time than is used. Less than half of scheduled time on high-end systems is being used. This limits the microscope plans by other users, limits maintenance,...
Change to Reservation Cancellation Policy 1/3/2022
Important change to reservation cancellation policy!!! Beginning January 3, 2022 users will be required to cancel a reservation 24 hours in advance to avoid a fee of the full charge for the time booked. This is an increase from our previous 12 hours in advance to...
Updated Scheduler Software
Over the weekend of November 20-21, 2021 and again December 3rd we upgraded our scheduler software to Booked v2.8.5. New Features: 1) New "wait list" feature - if you try to schedule a time that someone else has already booked, the scheduler will now ask if you would...