The CMCI Microscope Specialist will advise you on the most suitable microscope to use for your research project, free of charge. Each user will be trained according to their prior experience and microscope needs. To arrange a training session, contact us at centre-for-microscopy@concordia.ca, providing the following information: The facility offers free of charge access to the CMCI server in order to store data for a project. The storage server allow user to export their images from acquisition station and share information with their teams. Its main purpose is to give you a place where you can save your microscopy images after your session while reducing the risk of malware from portable drives and USB key. It also ensures the good functioning of the microscope. You can save directly to the server or, if speed is an issue, on the local hard-drive and then move the images. For a fee, the Microscope Specialist can perform additional tasks including image acquisition and sample preparation. Additionally, the Microscope Specialist can write bespoke code to perform image analysis, assuming suitable data has been acquired; this should be discussed between the PI, researcher and Microscope Specialist prior to the acquisition of data.
Capabilities
- ✓What is your sample? (e.g. C. Elegans, cultured mammalian cells, crystal deposits)
- ✓How is it mounted? (e.g. deposited or grown on a coverslip, suspended in media)
- ✓If it's fluorescent, what fluorescent proteins are being expressed?
- ✓What information or statistics do you want to derive from your images?
- ✓It is forbidden to connect any USB-device to the instrument computers.
- ✓The CMCI does not make back-up of any form of the data saved on the server.
- ✓To ensure a just share of the CMCI storage space, accounts will be set up the following way: Each laboratory will be issued a 1TB-5TB volume available for all their members. If that space is too limiting, a PI can request additional space by emailing centre-for-microscopy@concordia.ca and providing a valid justification. This space is accessible to the lab and the CMCI administrator only.
- ✓This space is accessible to the lab and the CMCI administrator only.
- ✓The server is meant to be used for scientific purpose only; personal files are forbidden.