Dear microscopists, thanks to a grant application organised mainly by Brian Robertson, we have now a new perfusion system available in FILM, the CellAsic ONIX microfluidic platform: * http://www.cellasic.com/ONIX.html * http://www.millipore.com/life_sciences/flx4/cellasic_live_cell_imaging#tab1=... (the system was recently bought by Millipore) Currently, the system is implemented on Widefield 2, but the perfusion plates are the size of a multiwell plate, so in principle fits on any inverted microscope (the software needs to be installed). Plates are available for bacteria, yeast and mammalian cells, but after the take-over by Millipore a new round of standardisation and upscaling has resulted in temporary shortages for some of the plates. Application notes and descriptions - including some impressive videos - are available on the website and also on the FILM Documentation Server (\\film-nas.med.ic.ac.uk\documentation) in the folder "...\Cellasic\". The system is already pretty busy, but if you are interested, please get in touch with FILM staff. Good imaging, Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *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 <mailto:m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk> Website: http://imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility