Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

What’s new at the Core

The IGB Core is moving to BookitLab for instrument tracking

The IGB Core has purchased BookitLab for tracking instrument use, reserving instrument time and processing billing. The Core plans to setup BookitLab on the LSM 700 April 15th. The April 17th Lunch with the Core will be dedicated to introducing the BookitLab software to existing users.  The plan is to transition all instrument tracking to BookitLab by early May. The IGB BookitLab portal can be found here.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Midwest Advanced MINFLUX and Super Resolution Workshop 2024

Save the Date! 

The IGB Core Facilities is hosting the 2nd Annual Midwest Advanced MINFLUX and Super Resolution Workshop from May 20th to 24th. You can find updated information here.

Lunch with the Core - Spring 2024

The IGB Core Facilities is hosting a Spring 2024 seminar series covering the instrumentation in the Core and some of the research taking place in the Core. The seminars are typically held from 12:00 - 1:00 pm in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Room 612 (Concourse level). Pizza will be provided to attendees. Please check the Lunch with the Core news posts and weekly emails for updates.

 

February 14, 2024	"Integrating Live Confocal Microscope Imagery of Plant Stomata with Gas Exchange Measurements" - Joseph Crawford, Postdoctoral Research Associate - Plant Biology  Instrument: LSM 710 Joe's talk can be found here.
February 28, 2024	"Introduction to STEDYCON: A Confocal and STED System with Super-resolution Capabilities" - Umnia Doha, Research Scientist - Core Facilities  Instrument: STEDYCON Umnia's talk can be found here.
March 6, 2024	"X-Ray Computed Tomography in the Core Facility: Research and Manufacturing Applications of the NSI X5000" - Dr. Austin Cyphersmith, Assistant Director of Research Instrumentation - Core Facilities  Instrument: X5000 Austin's talk can be found here.
March 27, 2024	"3D Data Analysis and Segmentation Tools" - Dr. Kingsley Boateng, Assistant Director of Bioscience Research & Microscopy - Core Facilities Instrument: Amira & Imaris Software Kingsley's talk can be found here.
April 3, 2024	"Revolutions in Data" - Dan Davidson, Director of CNRG and Research Computing - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Dan's talk can be found here.
April 10, 2024	"A solid-liquid superposition model for interfacial solvation structures" - Qian Ai, Graduate Research Assistant - Materials Science & Engineering Zoom: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/88982127756?pwd=ME1jZWtZd2txUDBRS3pZa2lUWmNrUT09 Meeting ID: 889 8212 7756 Password: 201556
April 17, 2024	"Introduction to BookitLab" - Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the Core Facilities Join Zoom Meeting https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85934995263?pwd=eE9ZeXNuNFozNCtKdytYMTMyK3dQUT09 Meeting ID: 859 3499 5263 Password: 166361
April 24, 2024	"Introducing Spatial Transcriptomics to Core Facilities: A Custom Built MERFISH Microscope " - Duncan Nall, Research Scientist - Core Facilities  Instrument: MERFISH Zoom: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87903107373?pwd=R1dYM2dIMmxxTVhWTGNsclNzY2ovdz09 Meeting ID: 879 0310 7373 Password: 783805
May 1, 2024	"Creating Art of Science" - Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Zoom: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/88064323223?pwd=VjJOM1drU2xVOUhHVnM0UUxIL0Q0dz09 Meeting ID: 880 6432 3223 Password: 410927

If you require special accommodations or have dietary restrictions, please email Hannah McClellan - hlm@illinois.edu.

The STEDYCON has arrived

The Core Facilities has purchased a STEDYCON system from Abberior Instruments. This microscope will function as a four color confocal or a two color 2D STED microscope with 40nm resolution. For more information, please visit our STEDYCON instrument page found here.

Dr. Reza Rajabi-Toustani has joined the IGB Core Facilities

Dr. Reza Rajabi-Toustani will be helping with hands-on training with the MINFLUX and other optical microscopes. Previously he was a Postdoc in Joe (Huanyu) Qiao Lab. Reza has been using the MINFLUX from the time it was installed and provided the July 2022 Image of the Month. It can be found here.

Dr. Umnia Doha has joined the IGB Core Facilities

Dr. Doha will be helping with training on the optical microscopes. Umnia comes from the Taher Saif Lab in Mechanical Science and Engineering. 

Lunch with the Core 

The IGB Core Facilities hosts a seminar series each semester covering instrumentation in the Core and research taking place in the Core. Previous Lunch with the Core information can be found below.

2024

February 14, 2024	"Integrating Live Confocal Microscope Imagery of Plant Stomata with Gas Exchange Measurements" - Joseph Crawford, Postdoctoral Research Associate - Plant Biology  Instrument: LSM 710 Joe's talk can be found here.
February 28, 2024	"Introduction to STEDYCON: A Confocal and STED System with Super-resolution Capabilities" - Umnia Doha, Research Scientist - Core Facilities  Instrument: STEDYCON Umnia's talk can be found here.
March 6, 2024	"X-Ray Computed Tomography in the Core Facility: Research and Manufacturing Applications of the NSI X5000" - Dr. Austin Cyphersmith, Assistant Director of Research Instrumentation - Core Facilities  Instrument: X5000 Austin's talk can be found here.
March 27, 2024	"3D Data Analysis and Segmentation Tools" - Dr. Kingsley Boateng, Assistant Director of Bioscience Research & Microscopy - Core Facilities Instrument: Amira & Imaris Software Kingsley's talk can be found here.
April 3, 2024	"Revolutions in Data" - Dan Davidson, Director of CNRG and Research Computing - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Dan's talk can be found here.
April 10, 2024	"A solid-liquid superposition model for interfacial solvation structures" - Qian Ai, Graduate Research Assistant - Materials Science & Engineering
April 17, 2024	"Introduction to BookitLab" - Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the Core Facilities
April 24, 2024	"Introducing Spatial Transcriptomics to Core Facilities: A Custom Built MERFISH Microscope " - Duncan Nall, Research Scientist - Core Facilities  Instrument: MERFISH
May 1, 2024	"Creating Art of Science" - Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
September 4, 2024	"Introduction to the Core Facilities" - All Core Facilities Staff Members, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology  Instrument: Various Core Instruments
September 11, 2024	"Using the Axio Scan.Z1 and Ultramicroscope to characterize and quantify maternal-to-fetal molecule trafficking in a murine model of maternal immune activation" - Rafael Jaime Gonzalez Ricon, MSc - Neuroscience Program Instrument: Axio Scan.Z1 & Ultramicroscope
September 18, 2024	"Insights into Nuclear Speckles in Mammalian Cells Using Super-Resolution Microscopy" - Minxue Liu, Graduate Research Assistant, Beckman Institute - Cell & Developmental Biology Instrument: MINFLUX
October 2, 2024	"Scalable Analysis of Cell State Dynamics with Computational Imaging and Deep Learning" - Dr. Shalin Mehta, Platform Leader of Computational Microscopy - Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco
October 9, 2024	"Round Table Discussion" - Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the Core Facilities - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Topic: Core Facilities
October 23, 2024	"Assessing the Impact of Paraben on Uterine Collagen Architecture: An Integrated Approach Using SHG, AFM, and Nanoindentation" - Mahmuda Arshee, Graduate Teaching Assistant - Mechanical Science & Engineering
October 30, 2024	"A MINFLUX view of phage infection" - Ayesha Bhikha, Graduate Research Assistant - Physics & Wenqing Zhu, Graduate Research Assistant - Physics Instrument: MINFLUX
November 6, 2024	"Age and Sex-Dependent Morphological Differences within the Neuromuscular Junction of Gastrocnemius and Diaphragm " - Sarah Asif, Ph.D Student - Neuroscience Program, Martha Gillette's Lab
November 20, 2024	"Molecular Structure-Specific Bioimaging with Spectral Precision: Raman Imaging Comes of Age" - Ashok Samuel, Research Associate Professor - The Grainger College of Engineering

2023

 

March 1, 2023	"An Introduction to the Zeiss LSM 900: With Super-resolution and Deconvolution Capability" - Dr. Austin Cyphersmith, Assistant Director of Research Instrumentation, Core Facilities at IGB Instrument: LSM 900  Austin's talk: https://youtu.be/95MB2DQW_BQ
March 8, 2023	"Computer services at the IGB" - Dan Davidson, Director of Computer and Network Resource Group - IGB Topic: Computer Services Dan's talk: https://youtu.be/UHJ_EwEsC_Y
March 22, 2023	"Keyence Microscope Demo" - Scott Waddle Instrument: Keyence Microscopes
March 29, 2023	"Identification of structural model of mammalian meiotic synaptonemal complex with super-resolution scope (MINFLUX)" - Reza Rajabi Toustani, Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Instrument: Minflux
April 5, 2023	"Crafting the Art of Science: a Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes" - Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager, IGB Topic: Art of Science Julia's talk: https://youtu.be/67atM0TjTWw
April 12, 2023	"Mechanics to microstructure: Image-based modeling of the extracellular matrix" - Callan Luetkemeyer, Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Grainger College of Engineering, MechSE
April 19, 2023	"Single cell spatial transcriptomic analysis of adult honeybee phenotypes" - Alex Schrader, Chemistry Doctoral Candidate, Han Lab Instrument: Widefield Microscope

September 20, 2023	"An Introduction to the Core Facilities" - Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the IGB Core Facilities  Instruments located in the Core Facilities can be found here. Glenn's talk: https://youtu.be/2ufeSdnoubM
September 27, 2023	"Firing of in-vitro hippocampal neuronal network depends on the mechanical tension" - Md Saddam Hossain Joy, Graduate Teaching Assistant - Mechanical Science & Engineering Instrument: LSM 880 Md Saddam Hossain Joy's talk: https://youtu.be/TgGTQ7Wqfyc
October 11, 2023	"Super-Resolution Imaging of AMPA Receptors in Brain Tissue" - Rohit Vaidya, Graduate Research Assistant - Physics Instrument: LSM 880 & Cryostat Rohit's talk: https://youtu.be/BGL0wWa7e7o
October 25, 2023	"Biocluster: New Features and New Computing" - Daniel Davidson Topic: Biocluster Dan's talk: https://youtu.be/KFZXtwnsHQU
November 1, 2023	"Further Insights into Kinesin Motility Using MINFLUX: A Super-Resolution Nanoscopic Method (Kinesin Motility: Characterizing the Half-Steps and Backsteps)" - Devinda Pankaja Wijewardena, Grad. Research Asst. - Physics - Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Instrument: MINFLUX
November 8, 2023	"Volume Electron Microscopy: Concepts, Correlations and Computations" - Kedar Narayan, Ph.D - Senior Scientist, NIH  Kedar's talk: https://youtu.be/4tSG_rh8oMg