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Webinar : High Speed AFM Fundamentals and Integration with Advanced Optical Techniques

Date: Friday 22 March 2024
Time: 5am NZDT, 3am AEST, 12am Midnight AWST
 


 

Join us and our special guest speaker Dr. George Heath, University of Leeds, UK, for this virtual workshop on high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM). The webinar will focus on the fundamental principles of the technique, relevant applications, and its integration with advanced optical microscopy.
 

Dr. Heath will speak about his work using the NanoRacer high-speed atomic force microscope to study protein dynamics and will present methods that can increase the temporal and spatial resolution of AFM to the 10 microsecond and sub-nm level. The webinar will provide an overview of the latest developments in high-speed AFM and will include a demonstration on the NanoWizard ULTRA Speed 3 BioAFM, live from our laboratories in Berlin, Germany.

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New CellX for Microscopy Laser Engine

Introducing the new CellX purpose-built, turnkey laser engine for microscopy from Coherent.

Originally designed for flow cytometry, the extended CellX platform now supports three applications: flow cytometry, free-space applications, and introducing a fiber delivery system engineered for microscopy. 

CellX for microscopy has been designed to offer a common 0.7 mm beam diameter across all four wavelengths (405 nm, 488 nm, 561nm, and 640 nm), addressing a fundamental challenge in microscopy where different laser colors naturally focus at varying degrees. Integrating beam steering and telescope adjustments in CellX allows meticulous control over divergence. 

The innovative design of CellX extends to its fiber launch, providing a 4-laser array (each laser at 100 mW) into a fiber with the adjustments to optimize and maintain power transmission to the application. 

In fields like neuroscience, where precise, high-resolution imaging is paramount, optimizing and maintaining power transmission through a fiber is invaluable. CellX with fiber ensures that the power and clarity of laser light are not diminished in transmission, allowing scientists to illuminate and observe neural structures with unprecedented detail and clarity. 

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New Compact Solid State Laser

Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in lasers and thermoelectrics for life sciences and scientific research, today announced the introduction of the OBIS 640 XT, a diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser module with up to 1000 mW output at 640 nm for super-resolution microscopy (SRM).

 

Innovation in visible and ultraviolet lasers is enabling breakthroughs in SRM that can resolve macromolecular structures and provide crucial new insights into cell biology. Coherent introduced the OBIS 640 XT, a red laser module that matches the high output power, low noise, beam quality, and compact size of its existing portfolio of blue and green laser modules, which as a complete set enable high-performance SRM systems.

 

The portfolio of laser modules for life sciences includes the Sapphire and OBIS LS/LX/XT product lines, covering a wide range of output power and wavelengths from near-infrared to ultraviolet.

 

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New Live Cell Incubator

This latest generation represents a new era in Okolab's incubation technology designed to eliminate doubt with your live cell imaging conditions providing complete sample feedback from the inside. Your samples communicate directly with the sensors, ensuring precision.

 

The BL3 is the first live cell incubator ever to offer in-chamber sampling and closed-feedback control of CO2, humidity,and temperature levels - the 3 essential parameters to control for ideal live-cell imaging conditions.

 

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Introducing MicroPoint 4, a powerful tool for photostimulation

 

Date: Friday 20 October 2023

Time: 4am NZDT  |  2am AEDT  |  11pm (Thurs 21st)

 

The MicroPoint family was first brought to market in the early 2000’s and immediately found favour in the scientific community, where its patented, miniature dye laser was used for optical microsurgery on model organisms like c. elegans, drosophila and zebra fish. With elegantly designed experiments, scientists severed single axons and guide cells to understand regeneration and development. While in single cells, the tiniest fibers were excised to study mitosis (cell division) and DNA damage was induced to characterise DNA repair.

 

In this webinar, Dr Mark Browne, Microscopy Systems Director at Andor will introduce MicroPoint 4, with all-new smart controller, millisecond beam positioning and new solid state laser options capabilities are significantly enhanced. The fiber spot adapter (FSA), delivers continuous wave (cw) laser for bleaching and photo-activation of fluorescent proteins. And coming soon, is a new ultra-compact YAG laser, we call Pico: with 5 kHz rep rate, 1 ns pulse width and emission at 355 and 532 nm, Pico delivers kW peak-power and is ideal for microsurgery, DNA damage and uncaging.

 

Mark Browne Director of Microscopy Systems has contributed to many significant developments, managing the spinning disk confocal and photostimulation portfolios. Educated at Edinburgh and Reading Universities, Mark had a successful academic career, primarily at University of Manchester, where he established a research group in optical imaging and image processing. He was co-founder of Kinetic Imaging Limited in 1990, which was acquired in 2004 by Andor. Since the acquisition, he has contributed to R&D and Product Management in microscopy and imaging software.

 

Learning Objectives

  • Principles of Photostimulation
  • Technology used in MicroPoint 4
  • Applications of pulsed and CW laser photostimulation

If you are not a night owl, register, and you will receive copy of the recorded webinar after the event :)

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