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Olympus Fluoview 300 confocal microscope

Light microscope cleaning procedure

JEOL 840A SEM

Philips CM-10 TEM

Preparatory equipment

Microscopy courses & major option

Microscopy links

Personnel

A small selection of microscopy related web sites.

Other labs and facilities
+ Biomedical Structural Research (see also biomedical imaging under "other sites' links pages")
+ The Center for Advanced Microscopy at Michigan State University
+ Confocal microscopy at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
+ Development Resource for Biophysical Imaging Opto-electronics Cornell University
+ Electron Microscopy Laboratory at UC Berkeley
+ Institute for Marine Biosciences: Microscopy (facility) National Research Council of Canada
+ Institute for Marine Biosciences: Microscopy (program) National Research Council of Canada
+ The Institute for the Promotion of the Less Than One Millimeter
+ Jastrow's EM Atlas, Univ. of Mainz
+ Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+ Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation University of Wisconsin
+ Microscopy UK
+ Mount Allison University Digital Microscopy Facility
+ National Center for Electron Microscopy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
+ St. Francis Xaxier University Biology Facilities
+ Timothy S. Baker Laboratory
+ Tips & tricks University of Florida EM Core Laboratory
+ Tooth Enamel: SEM preparation and interpretation of images
+ University of Hawaii Pacific Biomedical Research Center EM facility
+ University of Minnesota CBS Imaging Center
+ University of Minnesota Inst. Tech. Characterization Facility
+ University of Wisconsin Microscopy Services Home
+ USDA Electron Microscopy Laboratory Beltsville Maryland

Societies
+ American Microscopical Society
+ Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society
+ International Metallographic Society
+ Michigan Microscopy and Microanalysis
+ Microbeam Analysis Society
+ Microscopy New Zealand
+ Microscopy Society of America (MSA)
+ Microscopical Society of Canada
+ Royal Microscopical Society (RMS)

Some microscopy publications
+ Journal of Microscopy (RMS)
+ Microscopy and Analysis
+ Microscopy and Microanalysis (MSA)
+ Microscopy Today (MSA)
+ Modern Microscopy Journal (McCrone Group)
+ World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Microscopy (University of Oklahoma)

Software
+ ImageJ
+ ImageJ plugins Wright Cell Imaging Facility Toronto Western Research Institute
+ Imagesurfer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
+ ImageTrak
+ Open Microscopy Environment
+ OpenDX from IBM's Visualization Data Explorer
+ Scientific Image Database
+ VisBio LOCI University of Wisconsin-Madison
+ Voxx volume rendering for 3D microscopy

Tutorials and technical information
+ Antibody procedures for mouse Immunohistochemistry (Giorgio Cattoretti Columbia University)
+ Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists
+ digitalFAQ.com
+ EELS tutorial (University of Guelph)
+ Electron Multiplying CCD cameras Andor Technology
+ Fluorochrome excitation and emission data tables from Molecular Expressions
+ Frozen section technique
+ Gold conjugation procedure (Research Diagnostics, Inc.)
+ Image Processing Learning Resources
+ Immunohistochemistry World
+ IR transmission of objectives (Cornell University)
+ Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer(Florida State University)
+ Nanogold cluster labeling Nanoprobes
+ Nikon MicroscopyU
+ Scanning Electron Microscopy
+ Stereology Information Center
+ StainsFile
+ TEM basics (University of Liverpool)
+ What are Electron Microscopes?
+ Zeiss/Bio-Rad fluorochrome database

Microscopy mailling lists
+ Confocal no subject, use "subscribe yourname confocal" in the body of the message (no quotes)
+ Histonet
+ Microscope Forum
+ Microscopy (MSA)

Other sites' links pages
+ Biomedical Imaging on the WWW
+ Confocal microscopy Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research links

Material Safety Data Sheet databases
+ Arkansas State University - Database of Material Safety Data Sheets
+ ChemWatch - MSDS database collection (website uses pop-ups)
+ Cornell University - Database of Material Safety Data Sheets
+ Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Laboratory Chemical Safety Summaries
+ ILPI - Where to find material safety data sheets on the internet
+ Iowa State University - Database of Material Safety Data Sheets
+ Macquarie University - Material Safety Data Sheet Information
+ Micromedex Health Series - Summaries & detailed monographs
+ TOMES - Comprehensive searchable database
+ MSDSonline - UCSF MSDS Management System
+ Oxford University - Database of Material Safety Data Sheets
+ Sigma-Aldrich - Database of Material Safety Data Sheets
+ The Vermont SIRI - Collection of Material Safety Data Sheets
+ University of Akron - Hazardous Chemical Database
+ US Environmental Protection Agency - Envirofacts Warehouse Chemical References Index