Dear microscopists,

 for next week Wednesday I have organised a DEMONSTRATION and trial of the LEICA MATRIX SOFTWARE. This software would allow the automation of our confocal microscopes and could have some important advantages for us:

* ability for flexible design of screening experiments, e.g. automated tiling of multiple areas or wells
* automated focussing on the bottom of a coverslip using laser reflection
* direct streaming of data onto a data server using the OME-TIFF format, hopefully allowing full integration with our OMERO image database, thus avoiding problems with data import, unnecessary transfer of large data files, etc.
* potential for on-the-fly analysis feeding back to the image acquisition (e.g. fast low-resolution screen, detailed acquisition in wells with e.g. high expression level)

For more details, see the Leica website at <http://www.leica-microsystems.com/products/confocal-microscopes/details/product/leica-hcs-a-2/news/>


SCHEDULE FOR LEICA MATRIX DEMONSTRATION, Wednesday 19 January 2011:

12.00: Presentation of the Leica Matrix Platform by Paul McCormick (Leica Support Specialist), seminar room SAFB-122
14.00: Hands-on demonstration and mini training on the inverted Leica-SP5 ('confocal 4')

Everyone is welcome, but if you are interested in the hands-on session please let me know, there is limited space at CF4.


After the demonstration, we will keep and test a trial version for several weeks. If successful, we'll try to put together a grant application with all interested parties.


Good imaging,

Martin
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Martin Spitaler, PhD

FILM - Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy
- Facility Manager -
Sir Alexander Fleming Building, desk 401
Imperial College London / South Kensington
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ
UK

Tel. +44-(0)20-759-42023
E-mail m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk
Website: http://imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility