If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Diego, December
6 - 9 (
http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see the Micro-
Manager demonstration in Booth 602 in the Exhibition space.
Micro-Manager (
http://micro-manager.org) is an open source software
package for microscope image acquisition. It controls a large number
of microscopes (from Leica, Nikon, Olympus and Zeiss), scientific
grade cameras, and peripherals and lets you take snapshots, time-
lapses, z-stacks, and multi-channel images. It runs as an ImageJ
plugin and works under Windows, Mac and Linux. Micro-Manager is being
developed at Ron Vale's lab at UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.
We will be demonstrating the new Micro-Manager Surveyor plugin that
lets you operate the microscope without looking through the eyepieces.
It offers a Google Maps-like interface by which you can survey and
navigate your slide with a touch screen. This plugin can greatly
simplify finding and keeping track of interesting cells in a population.
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. We also hope to give you personal
hands-on training in the use of Micro-Manager.
Hope to see you there!
Best,
Nico
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