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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.
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.
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 Meeting ID: 859 3499 5263 |
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 Care 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 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. Doha will be helping with training on the optical microscopes. Umnia comes from the Taher Saif Lab in Mechanical Science and Engineering.
The Core Facilities is located on the concourse level (basement) of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The entrance is adjacent to Array Café.
The goal of this project is to investigate the structural, biochemical and biophysical mechanisms of proteins and complexes involved in immunity to help broaden our understanding of immune system proteins, their interactions with microbes and the functional outcomes of those interactions. This involves investigating the assembly, structures and functions of mucosal antibodies in order to understand how these remarkable complexes protect vertebrates from external factors (e.g. pathogens) and how they can be engineered to treat disease. The image shows engineered antibodies (green) bound to host pathogens in mouse lung (red). The image was taken with the Ultramicroscope, and 3D-segmented with Imaris Software.
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Ultramicroscope
3D-segmented with Imaris Software
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A section of piglet corpus callosum processed using serial block-face scanning electron microscopy. Myelinated axons are depicted by the dark circular rings. This image was acquired using the Zeiss Sigma BP 3View SBF-SEM and segmented semi-automated, using Amira Software by Umnia Doha and Kingsley Boateng of IGB Core Facilities; Stephen Fleming & Dr. Ryan Dilger of the Dilger Lab, and the Piglet Nutrition and Cognition Lab in the Department of Animal Sciences.
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Author Name 2 for Piglet Corps
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Ultramicroscope
3D-segmented with Imaris Software
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Just like our own bodies need a mechanism to regulate gas and water content in our cells, plant tissue also needs a mechanism for this too. Plant stomata (pictured above) are pores that regulate transpiration of water and gas exchange. These pores open and close in response to their environment by the swelling of guard cells that flank the opening. Researchers in the Leakey lab can image stomata opening and closing in live plant tissue while controlling the carbon dioxide, humidity, and light levels. Image was taken with LSM710.
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Author Name 3 for Plant Zoma
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Ultramicroscope
3D-segmented with Imaris Software
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3D visualization of a portion of a maize bundle sheath cell with chloroplasts (left) and 3D visualizations of bundle sheath and mesophyll cell wall with plasmodesmata pit fields in a maize leaf sample (right).