Atomic Force Microscopy: Describing the mechanical properties of diverse materials
Interview with Camilo Guzmán, Manager of Euro-BioImaging’s Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node Please tell us who you are, where your facility is based, and what your role is. My name is Camilo Guzmán and I am the manager of the Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node of Euro-BioImaging. I have a background both in physics and in biology and I have been working on microscopy topics for over 17 years now. Our node has imaging facilities in Helsinki, Oulu and Turku and I am based in Turku where I take care of administrative tasks, while also providing support to different users on super-resolution microscopy, fluorescence dynamics and several biophysics methods. Read more
CARS: Label-free imaging for studying pharmaceutical materials/drug crystallization
Interview with Antti Isomäki, of the Biomedicum Imaging Unit of Helsinki BioImaging, part of Euro-BioImaging’s Finish Advanced Light Microscopy Node. Read more
New technology is offered by the Finnish Node – label-free CARS microscopy
CARS microscopy is one of the label-free multiphoton imaging techniques. It allows for chemically specific imaging of biological materials without use of fluorescent labels. CARS has been proven useful in some very specific application fields. The CARS technique is particularly well suited for high-resolution label-free imaging of lipids due to the high concentration of carbon-hydrogen bonds in the lipid material. Lipid imaging has been applied to a great variety of samples including lipid droplets in fixed and live cell cultures, various tissue sections, and even small animals in vivo (e.g. zebrafish).In pharmaceutical applications, CARS microscopy is gaining more and more interest. Applications include visualization of chemical component distribution in dosage forms and drug carriers, dissolution and release, solid-state transformations during dissolution, and drug delivery into cells and tissues. You can apply to use CARS microscopy at Euro-BioImaging Web Portal.
NordForsk funding granted to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland
NordForsk (www.nordforsk.org), an organization that facilitates research cooperation and infrastructure development in Nordic countries, has granted Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure a total of 2.5 Million NOK for 3 years. The participating countries in this consortium are Norway (coordinating Hub), Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure (BNMI) is a network of national imaging infrastructures offering open access to biological imaging technologies in participating Nordic countries. BNMI partners include Norwegian Molecular Imaging Consortium (NorMIC) and Norwegian Advanced Light Microscopy Imaging Network (NALMIN), National Microscopy Infrastructure (NMI) in Sweden, Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node (FiALM), Danish BioImaging (DBI) Network and BioMedical Center of University of Iceland (BMC-UI). The funding will be used to strengthen international competitiveness and facilitate the development of world-leading Nordic advanced microscopy environments by supporting several levels of training, from electron and light microscopy to image analysis. Training will be delivered via scientific and technical symposia, workshops,…
Remote 3D Electron Microscopy and CLEM projects at the Finnish Node
At the Finnish Node, remote access services include remote access to microscopes and image analysis workstations, virtual microscopy where a remote user joins an operator via video call, and a possibility to send samples to one of the imaging core facilities within the Finnish Node where staff perform the imaging. All of these services are possible due to ongoing developments at the Finnish Node. Eija Jokitalo, the head of Electron Microscopy Unit, at the University of Helsinki presented how imaging projects that require either 3D Electron Microscopy or CLEM (Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy) are conducted at her facility with remote users sending samples at Euro-BioImaging weekly meeting. For more information about the 3D Electron Microscopy and CLEM projects, you are welcome to read this article posted on Euro-BioImaging.
Finnish Node presents virtual microscopy at Euro-BioImaging weekly meeting
Remote access allows researchers to access instruments and analysis workstations remotely, for example, from the confines of their homes. The effects of COVID-19 pandemic, namely the temporary closure of core facilities in most of the countries or significant reduction in their activities, have accelerated the development of remote access services also at the Finnish Node. An example of remote access service being developed by the Finnish Node is virtual microscopy. It consists of an operator, generally a staff member of a core facility or an experienced researcher, acquiring image data using a microscope. A remote user joins via video call to guide an operator to image particular regions of interests. The Finnish Node presented its developments in the field of virtual microscopy at Euro-BioImaging weekly meeting on 8 May 2020. You can check a demonstration of a virtual microscopy in a short video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=xnPuoNTC9bI&feature=emb_titleA short video segment taken from…
Finnish Node chaired a remote access session in 2nd Euro-BioImaging Nodes meeting
2nd Euro-BioImaging Nodes meeting took place on 8 June 2020 with participants from Euro-BioImaging Nodes attending presentations and participating in discussions. This meeting took place virtually due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Finnish Node was chairing virtual access session where members of the Finnish Node presented their experiences with virtual microscopy and remote access. This session was the most popular of the three sessions during this 2nd Euro-BioImaging Nodes meeting.
NordForsk funding granted to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland
NordForsk funding granted to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland NordForsk (www.nordforsk.org), an organization that facilitates research cooperation and infrastructure development in Nordic countries, has granted Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure a total of 2.5 Million NOK for 3 years. The participating countries in this consortium are Norway (coordinating Hub), Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure (BNMI) is a network of national imaging infrastructures offering open access to biological imaging technologies in participating Nordic countries. BNMI partners include Norwegian Molecular Imaging Consortium (NorMIC) and Norwegian Advanced Light Microscopy Imaging Network (NALMIN), National Microscopy Infrastructure (NMI) in Sweden, Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node (FiALM), Danish BioImaging (DBI) Network and BioMedical Center of University of Iceland (BMC-UI). The funding will be used to strengthen international competitiveness and facilitate the development of world-leading Nordic advanced microscopy environments by supporting several levels of training, from electron and light microscopy to image analysis.…
11-16 August 2019. Euro-BioImaging at Summer School on Finnish Archipelago.
Pasi Kankaanpää represented Euro-BioImaging during the summer school that took place on the Finnish archipelago. The summer school organized by NordBioMed took place on the Finnish island of Seili between 11th and 16th of August. The theme of this summer school was computational biomedicine with major focus on the areas of imaging, machine learning, and precision medicine. The summer school was attended by more than 35 participants from Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish universities. Pasi Kankaanpää from Euro-BioImaging had delivered a number of talks featuring topics including Euro-BioImaging mission and organization, the services and imaging technologies provided by the Finnish Euro-BioImaging Node in Finland, and the ethics in image analysis. More information including course material can be found on NordBioMed’s page.