About the Center

Location and Directions

Data Management System

Contact Information:

Director
Mark A. Sanders

Staff
Gilbert G. Ahlstrand
Tracy E. Anderson
Gail Celio

Students
Chemi Banari
Alex Cramer

University of Minnesota
Imaging Center
Rooms 23-35 Snyder Hall
1475 Gortner Avenue.
University of Minnesota,
St. Paul, MN 55108

Hours: 9:00-5:00 weekdays
Closed holidays

Useful Links

University of Minnesota Core Facilities

• Biodale - Minnesota's Shopping Mall for Biotech and Life Sciences Research
• Biomedical Genomics Center
• Biomedical Image Processing Lab (BIPL)
• Biotechnology Resource Center
• Cancer Center Flow Cytometry
• Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics
• High Throughput Biological Analysis Facility
• Institute of Technology Characterization Facility
• Nano Fabrication Center
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility

General Links

• The Minnesota Zoo "SharkCam" (Set up by Imaging Center Director Mark Sanders)
• Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

Societies

• Minnesota Microscopy Society
• Microscopy Society of America

Bioinformatics

• What is Bioinformatics?
• The UMN Center for Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics (CCGB)
• The Bioinformatics and Research Computing Facility
  

Software

• UPresent & UGather - Free Download for the University of Minnesota community
• ImageJ
• µManager - Open source microscopy software

Microwave Technology

• Ted Pella, Inc.

Supplies and Vendor Links

• Photometrics
• Media Cybernetics
• Image-Pro Plus Application Notes
• Fryer Company
• Leeds Microsystems
• Bioptechs
• Chroma Filters
• Molecular Probes
• Optical Insights
• Apple Computer
• Glass bottom culture dishes
• WillCo Wells - Petri dishes with different size glass bottoms
• Nunc - chambered coverglass
• Biostatus Limited - The makers of CyGEL

External Microscopy & Imaging Links *

• Multi-Probe Microscopy - George McNamara, Ph.D. - This site has several tables that are useful for fluorochrome selection and refractive indexes. Click here for a table of 800+ fluorescent protein data in Xcel format.
• Fluorescent Spectra Interactive Database - University of Arizona
• Spectral traces for fluorescent dyes used in confocal microscopy - University of Arizona
• ImageJ for Microscopy at Wright Cell Imaging Facility
• Invitrogen / Molecular Probes spectra viewer
• Invitrogen / Moleclular Probes fluorescence tutorials
• Zeiss Interactive Fluorescence Dye Database
• Nikon MicroscopyU
• U. Arizona's List of Microscopy & Imaging Resources on the WWW
• Lance Ladic's list of confocal microscopy resources on the WWW
• U. Manchester's list of confocal resources on the WWW
• Archive of the Confocal Listserv: web discussions since 1991
• What's in a picture? The temptation of image manipulation
• The JCB will let your data shine in RGB
• Interactive Focusing and Astigmatism Adventures on the Web
• Software to calculate the Phase Contrast Transfer Function (CTF): a useful characteristics in Electron Microscopy
• Wen Jiang Group's Contrast Transfer Function Software
• Optimized Immuno Labelling using AURION BSA-c and AURION Blocking Solutions
• Biological buffers reference, from Sigma-Aldrich
• Image Processing Fundamentals, from Delft University
  

* We hope you find these links useful, please note that neither the Imaging Center nor the University of Minnesota officially endorses, recommends, or approves of anything off its own site.