Additional Resources
These are a collection of links which might be useful for Facility users. Please report broken links to xjsun@ualberta.ca
**Disclaimer. The Facility has no commercial interests nor endorses any of the following products.
Microscopy Associations
Education + Reference
Company Sponsored Sites for Optics and Microscopy Education
Online Reference Material
Supplies
Microscopy Supplies
- Glass bottom culture dish/plate for live cell imaging.
- Nunc chambered slides carried by Fisher Scientific, VWR, etc.
- World Precision Instruments (WPI)
- Grace Lab for silicon based gasket/spacers for microscopy imaging
TEM Lab Supplies
Software
Image Acquisition + Processing Software
Image Analysis
Light Microscopy Resources
These links provide information from general to advanced light microscopy. Some links contain good Java tutorials about optics, fluorescence and confocal/multi-photon microscopy.
- Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer
- very comprehensive site for light Microscopy.
- Nikon Microscopy U
- Olympus Microscopy Resource Center
- Zeiss Campus
- contains useful information on advanced optics/applications (spinning disk confocal and comparison with Laser scanning confocal, colocalization, spectral imaging, etc.).
- iBiology Microscopy Course
- light microscopy course video taught by world experts
- Deconvolution
- Nyquist calculator for optimizing sampling rate BEFORE acquiring image.
- Fret information
- FLIM
- FRAP/FLIP