Alby about NIC@IIT - Informal Imaging Contest

[Alberto Diaspro]

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Friends and colleagues,
on the first week of June a NEW Nikon Imaging Center (NIC) will be open at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Diaspro Lab - IIT-LAMBS-2N (Nanobioimaging & Nanobiophotonics), in Genoa, Italy.
I am thinking to have nice images in the corridors of the new brand lab (www.nic.iit.it).

I am launching a sort of contest/call for images acquired from any Nikon microscope to be used for such a purpose. The call will close on May 7th.
Please, send you images to [hidden email] (or utilize dropbox or similia) with the subject “Image contest 20014 - NIC@IIT”. High image quality is requested for a high quality printed version. A figure legend is requested having the following information: Title (any title not necessarily scientific… say neurons’ forest or chromatin DNA organizational motif or purple rain); Author(s) with affiliation(s); Technical modalities (microscope, mechanism of contrast, objective etc…); Scientific Figure legend including a publication reference when needed; corresponding author email.

With my research group I will select 10 images and I am thinking to offer a prize for the first 3 classified and for all the 10 selected a printout like the one we will use at NIC@IIT. All participants will be acknowledged in the NIC@IIT webpage.

So…have a look in your image archives, grab new images…let your microscopes produce nice images…

Thank you for your help in setting up the first italian NIC.

All the best
Alby

[George McNamara]

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Hi Alby,

Don't forget to look up! Check out http://www.skyscapes.biz/  (or find
an Euro equivalent) I ask that you put Tiki_Goddess on one of them (even
though not imaged with a Nikon device).
http://home.earthlink.net/~tiki_goddess/TikiGoddess.jpg
  ... modest resolution from Meyer Instruments Pathscan Enabler (Nikon
had a similar 35mm film scanner turned slide scanner for a while).
http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/11/  ... highest resolution (probably
more than enough resolution unless you paint or project Tiki_Goddess on
the side - or front - of your building).
Title: Tiki_Goddess
Author:     George McNamara
Affiliation: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Modality:  Digital slide imager
Email: in my message header
Background information about the image is below small Tiki at
http://home.earthlink.net/~tiki_goddess/
Optional:
1. inverse contrast ... looks "fluorescent" (though not as colorful).
2. Tiki_Goddess_sseddoG_ikiT  (of course each letter should really be
flipped, not practical in the listserv), that is, Tiki_Goddess + its
mirror image, side by side. Your group can do this with a few seconds of
Photoshopping, or it you need it, let me know and I can post it online.
Its double width may be useful in certain space contexts (other variants
could be head to head, tail to tail, etc).

I also encourage - for rooms that should be kepy pretty dark, using
"SKY400" - an image of a 400 chromosomes metaphase spread from a breast
cancer cell line, see bottom of
http://home.earthlink.net/~mpmicro/
Title: SKY400 ... or:    SKYscape 400
Subtitle: Polyploid cell from MDA-MB-435 breast cancer cell line,
subclone M4A4 or NM2C5 cell line)
Author:     Carrie Viars, George McNamara, Steve Goodison
Affiliations: UCSD (CV), M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (GM), Nonagen
Bioscience (SG)
Modality: Spectral Karyotype (ASI SD-300 spectral imager)
Emails: see message header. Additional contact info:
https://www.facebook.com/carrie.viars
www.linkedin.com/in/georgemcnamara
www.linkedin.com/pub/steve-goodison/1b/bb/535

References:

Goodison S, Viars C, Urquidi V 2005 Molecular cytogenetic analysis of a human breast metastasis model: identification of phenotype-specific chromosomal rearrangements. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 156: 37-48. PubMed PMID: 15588854. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15588854
Goodison S, Viars C, Grazzini M, Urquidi V 2003 The interrelationship between DRIM gene expression and cytogenetic and phenotypic characteristics in human breast
tumor cell lines. BMC Genomics 4: 39. PubMed PMID: 14503924; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC222913. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14503924

If you want an even darker room, you are welcome to an image from my
single molecule RNA FISH images, at any of
http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/37/
http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/35/
http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/37/
http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/33/ and
http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/32

Of course if you already had planned to use "skyscapes", you are still
welcome to use my images anyway - scientific data are facts, not subject
to copyright (at least in the USA).

For more colors, you can check out the galleries at
http://stellarisfish.smugmug.com/
Bottom right corner of the image pages (when the cursor is over the
image) has a drop down list of sizes.
most of the color images are in the multiplexing gallery
http://stellarisfish.smugmug.com/Multiplexing/
and either copy&paste a high res image
Modality: All images (with one exception) were acquired on a Nikon
Eclipse Ti widefield fluorescence microscope with a 60x/1.4 NA or
100x/1.4 NA oil objective.
The exception: http://stellarisfish.smugmug.com/StellarVision/   (you'll
have to ask the company for the technical details on that was acquired
... and when it will be available).
You can get details for any of the FISH images from
https://www.biosearchtech.com/store/product.aspx?catid=224,318,323  -
Marc Beal is a good contact.

another cool image (or something you can emulate) is
http://www.zellkraftwerk.com/
second image in the sliding gallery (wait for it, or click the second
dot above the image).
You can contact Dr. Christian Hennig for the data image.

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Have you ever been to HHMI Janelia Farm? If yes, did you like their bar,
Bob? ... If you like Tiki_Goddess a lot (or like drinking a lot, or
both), your NIC could have a Tiki_Bar see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiki_bar


Enjoy,

George
p.s. want blood vessels? See http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/36/ ...
I'm not that excited about these particular images, Rong Wen's DiI
method for mouse blood "vessel painting" is great, and inexpensive.


On 3/8/2014 4:03 AM, Alberto Diaspro wrote:

> *****
> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
> http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
> *****
>
> Friends and colleagues,
> on the first week of June a NEW Nikon Imaging Center (NIC) will be open at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Diaspro Lab - IIT-LAMBS-2N (Nanobioimaging&  Nanobiophotonics), in Genoa, Italy.
> I am thinking to have nice images in the corridors of the new brand lab (www.nic.iit.it).
>
> I am launching a sort of contest/call for images acquired from any Nikon microscope to be used for such a purpose. The call will close on May 7th.
> Please, send you images to [hidden email] (or utilize dropbox or similia) with the subject “Image contest 20014 - NIC@IIT”. High image quality is requested for a high quality printed version. A figure legend is requested having the following information: Title (any title not necessarily scientific… say neurons’ forest or chromatin DNA organizational motif or purple rain); Author(s) with affiliation(s); Technical modalities (microscope, mechanism of contrast, objective etc…); Scientific Figure legend including a publication reference when needed; corresponding author email.
>
> With my research group I will select 10 images and I am thinking to offer a prize for the first 3 classified and for all the 10 selected a printout like the one we will use at NIC@IIT. All participants will be acknowledged in the NIC@IIT webpage.
>
> So…have a look in your image archives, grab new images…let your microscopes produce nice images…
>
> Thank you for your help in setting up the first italian NIC.
>
> All the best
> Alby
>
>    

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George McNamara, Ph.D.
Single Cells Analyst
L.J.N. Cooper Lab
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX 77054
Tattletales http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/26/