If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
December 13-17 (
http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us in
booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
Micro-Manager (
http://micro-manager.org) is Open Source software for
microscope image acquisition. It controls a large number of
scientific grade cameras, microscopes and peripherals and lets you
take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks, and multi-channel images.
It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac and Linux
OSs. Micro-Manager is being developed at the Vale lab at UCSF
supported by a grant from the NIH.
We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a Yokogawa
spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser launch,
Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from a Mac Pro
using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to do very fast
multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a hardware solution
based on the Arduino micro-controller (
http://www.arduino.cc/).
This is also your chance to meet the new members of the Micro-Manager
team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and Arthur Edelstein
(who will start in January).
Of course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences
with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and everything
else you would like to tell us. It is also a great opportunity to get
personal hands-on training in the use of Micro-Manager. If you are
running a microscope with Micro-Manager, tell us at the meeting and we
might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt left for you!
Hope to see you there!
Best,
Nico
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