Server: Netscape-Communications/1.1 Date: Friday, 13-Dec-96 16:29:56 GMT Last-modified: Wednesday, 20-Nov-96 16:50:39 GMT Content-length: 6171 Content-type: text/html Integrated Microscopy Resource

Integrated Microscopy Resource (IMR)

An NIH Biomedical Research Technology Resource


Director: John G.White Deputy Director: Victoria Centonze Frohlich Co-investigator: Hans Ris

The Integrated Microscopy Resource (IMR) is a national resource funded by the Biological Research Technologies Program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The resource provides innovative instrumentation and skilled personnel to enable investigators to observe their specimens using powerful, new light and electron microscopy techniques. Optical sectioning light microscopy can provide 3-D dynamic (4-D) information on live specimens while rapid cryo preservation techniques allow ultrastructural characterization at a defined timepoint. Topographic and ultrastructural information can be obtained by field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) respectively. The integrating of LM, FESEM and TEM is capable of providing the combination of structural and functional information. The IMR has an active instrumentation development program that is aimed at developing improved methods of optical sectioning microscopy for in vivo imaging. In addition, specimen preparation techniques are being developed that allow samples to be preserved with a high degree of structural fidelity for FESEM and TEM.

The Integrated Microscopy Resource Web site has been selected by
The McKinley Group's professional editorial team as a "4-Star" site.




Symposium and Short Course on Applications of Multi-Photon Excitation Imaging
August 9-August 11, 1997 - Cleveland, Ohio

Second Annual Symposium on Integrated Microscopy - Sept 20th-Sept 22nd 1996
First Annual Symposium on Integrated Microscopy - Sept 29th-Oct 1st 1995

Instruments and Facilities

Optical trapping
Confocal imaging system
Four-dimensional image archival system
Multi-photon imaging system for in vivo fluorescence microscopy
Rapid cryo immobilization / specimen preparation
Field-emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM)
TEM at the IMR

Other IMR Information

Selected Publications from the IMR
IMR History, Mission and Research Activities
IMR Staff
Application Procedures
IMR Web Server Statistics
MB/IMR Computing Information

Directory of Microscopists on the Internet

Directory of Microscopists on the Net
Microscopists on the Net - Entry Form
Integrated Microscopy Resource
1675 Observatory Drive
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706-1205

General Information: (608) 265-3083
Optical Microscopy: (608) 263-6288
Electron Microscopy: (608) 263-8481

Resource Fax: (608) 265-4076
Resource Email: imradmin@calshp.cals.wisc.edu




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