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Nico Stuurman

Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco, December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us in booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.

Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org) is Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It controls a large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes and peripherals and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks, and multi-channel images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being developed at the Vale lab at UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.

We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a Yokogawa spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser launch, Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from a Mac Pro using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to do very fast multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a hardware solution based on the Arduino micro-controller (http://www.arduino.cc/).

This is also your chance to meet the new members of the Micro-Manager team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and Arthur Edelstein (who will start in January).

Of course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and everything else you would like to tell us. It is also a great opportunity to get personal hands-on training in the use of Micro-Manager. If you are running a microscope with Micro-Manager, tell us at the meeting and we might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt left for you!

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Nico

Sally_Dowling

Re: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to allowthis,
Sally D. Dowling, PhD
BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
Ph: 301-351-0524
http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging

From: Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
Sent: 12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco, December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us in booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.

This is also your chance to meet the new members of the Micro-Manager team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and Arthur Edelstein (who will start in January).

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Nico

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Dale Callaham

Re: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

I'm not sure "ethical" is the correct term for sticking your head in the
sand....

I think "free", OpenSource, and "free download" should be researched a
bit by BD Biosciences..

From the MicroManager web page:
μManager is an Open Source software package for imaging and control
of automated microscopes on multiple platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux).
Together with ImageJ, a popular image processing package, μManager
provides a comprehensive imaging solution – comparable to commercially
available ones.
μManager software, including device drivers, is free. Versions 1.1 and
1.2-beta are available for download.

I have no involvement, financial or otherwise, with MicroManager, but
fully support the open source efforts of the ImageJ and MicroManager
communities.

Cheers to the new world order!

Dale

[hidden email] wrote:

> Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to
> allowthis,
> Sally D. Dowling, PhD
> BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
> Ph: 301-351-0524
> http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> * From: *Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
> * Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
> * To: *[hidden email]
> * Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
>
>
> If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
> December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us in
> booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
>
> Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org <http://micro-manager.org/>) is
> Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It controls a
> large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes and peripherals
> and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks, and multi-channel
> images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac
> and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being developed at the Vale lab at
> UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.
>
> We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a Yokogawa
> spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser launch,
> Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from a Mac Pro
> using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to do very fast
> multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a hardware solution
> based on the Arduino micro-controller (http://www.arduino.cc/).
>
> This is also your chance to meet the new members of the Micro-Manager
> team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and Arthur Edelstein
> (who will start in January).
>
> Of course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences
> with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and everything
> else you would like to tell us. It is also a great opportunity to get
> personal hands-on training in the use of Micro-Manager. If you are
> running a microscope with Micro-Manager, tell us at the meeting and we
> might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt left for you!
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> Best,
>
> Nico
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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leoncio vergara

Re: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

In reply to this post by Sally_Dowling

I disagree...
________________________________
From: Confocal Microscopy List [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of [hidden email] [[hidden email]]
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:52 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to allowthis,
Sally D. Dowling, PhD
BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
Ph: 301-351-0524
http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging

________________________________

From: Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
Sent: 12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco, December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us in booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.

Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org<http://micro-manager.org/>) is Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It controls a large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes and peripherals and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks, and multi-channel images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being developed at the Vale lab at UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.

We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a Yokogawa spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser launch, Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from a Mac Pro using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to do very fast multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a hardware solution based on the Arduino micro-controller (http://www.arduino.cc/).

This is also your chance to meet the new members of the Micro-Manager team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and Arthur Edelstein (who will start in January).

Of course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and everything else you would like to tell us. It is also a great opportunity to get personal hands-on training in the use of Micro-Manager. If you are running a microscope with Micro-Manager, tell us at the meeting and we might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt left for you!

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Nico

________________________________

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claire goldsbury

Re: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

In reply to this post by Dale Callaham

Hi Nico!
Thanks for the info - keep up the messaging!
See you at ascb!
Cheers, Claire

> Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:01:27 -0500
> From: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
> To: [hidden email]
>
> I'm not sure "ethical" is the correct term for sticking your head in the
> sand....
>
> I think "free", OpenSource, and "free download" should be researched a
> bit by BD Biosciences..
>
> From the MicroManager web page:
> μManager is an Open Source software package for imaging and control
> of automated microscopes on multiple platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux).
> Together with ImageJ, a popular image processing package, μManager
> provides a comprehensive imaging solution - comparable to commercially
> available ones.
> μManager software, including device drivers, is free. Versions 1.1 and
> 1.2-beta are available for download.
>
> I have no involvement, financial or otherwise, with MicroManager, but
> fully support the open source efforts of the ImageJ and MicroManager
> communities.
>
> Cheers to the new world order!
>
> Dale
>
> [hidden email] wrote:
> > Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to
> > allowthis,
> > Sally D. Dowling, PhD
> > BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
> > Ph: 301-351-0524
> > http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > * From: *Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
> > * Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
> > * To: *[hidden email]
> > * Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
> >
> >
> > If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
> > December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us in
> > booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
> >
> > Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org <http://micro-manager.org/>) is
> > Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It controls a
> > large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes and peripherals
> > and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks, and multi-channel
> > images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac
> > and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being developed at the Vale lab at
> > UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.
> >
> > We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a Yokogawa
> > spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser launch,
> > Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from a Mac Pro
> > using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to do very fast
> > multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a hardware solution
> > based on the Arduino micro-controller (http://www.arduino.cc/).
> >
> > This is also your chance to meet the new members of the Micro-Manager
> > team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and Arthur Edelstein
> > (who will start in January).
> >
> > Of course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences
> > with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and everything
> > else you would like to tell us. It is also a great opportunity to get
> > personal hands-on training in the use of Micro-Manager. If you are
> > running a microscope with Micro-Manager, tell us at the meeting and we
> > might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt left for you!
> >
> > Hope to see you there!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Nico
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > * *******************************************************************
> > IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A.: This message may
> > constitute an advertisement of a BD group's products or services or a
> > solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and you
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> > message. Thank you.
> > *******************************************************************
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> > Company) 1 Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 U.S.A.
> > ******************************************************************* *
> >

Start searching now Rental properties galore.

Dale Callaham

Re: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

In reply to this post by Sally_Dowling

I'd like to add to my previous comment.

MicroManager is certainly NOT commercial, and neither is it
anti-commercial. I hope that vendors will get it clear that regardless
of how full of features a commercial product may be, there is frequently
something that it DOESN'T do and with open source extensible tools we
can solve these problems cooperatively as a community and add to the
array of tools at our disposal. If one looks at the list of
community-contributed plugin enhancements for ImageJ for instance, it is
clear that the microscopy and imaging community finds this a very
beneficial approach. I know that I have written a number of plugins to
solve problems I have faced. I have less experience with MicroManager
but I am hearing very good things about it and think it is on the same
course with ImageJ, and applaud the people who devote their time to this
effort.

Hardware vendors should not fear this movement; they can benefit because
these tools make the hardware more valuable and useful. But system
integrators - now there is a worry there, right? What if people could
see that the emperor has no clothes...... I see that BD Biosci IS a
commercial interest and is essentially competing with the non-commercial
MicroManager by selling OEM cameras and their tools, and apparently
quite worried... Folks, maybe this is a tip to have another look at
MicroManager....

And shame on Sally and BD Bioscience for trying to suppress
non-commercial cooperative efforts.

Dale

[hidden email] wrote:

Zoltan

Re: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

Hi All,

Nico and Nenad's efforts should be applauded not criticised; really shocking attack by BD!! Seeing them at this meeting for those who can manage to get there should be very beneficial for not only them but all of us, via encouraging information exchange between users and developers. MicroManager is fantastic: easy and flexible to use, fairly easy to interface with using your own framework in both Java and C++, and of course free. Perhaps that's why commercial entities are so twitchy about it??

Great job Nenad and Nico, keep it up please! I'm glad you were successful in finding new colleagues to help with this great project.

Best,

Zoltan

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Dale Callaham <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd like to add to my previous comment.

MicroManager is certainly NOT commercial, and neither is it anti-commercial. I hope that vendors will get it clear that regardless of how full of features a commercial product may be, there is frequently something that it DOESN'T do and with open source extensible tools we can solve these problems cooperatively as a community and add to the array of tools at our disposal. If one looks at the list of community-contributed plugin enhancements for ImageJ for instance, it is clear that the microscopy and imaging community finds this a very beneficial approach. I know that I have written a number of plugins to solve problems I have faced. I have less experience with MicroManager but I am hearing very good things about it and think it is on the same course with ImageJ, and applaud the people who devote their time to this effort.

Hardware vendors should not fear this movement; they can benefit because these tools make the hardware more valuable and useful. But system integrators - now there is a worry there, right? What if people could see that the emperor has no clothes...... I see that BD Biosci IS a commercial interest and is essentially competing with the non-commercial MicroManager by selling OEM cameras and their tools, and apparently quite worried... Folks, maybe this is a tip to have another look at MicroManager....

And shame on Sally and BD Bioscience for trying to suppress non-commercial cooperative efforts.

Dale

[hidden email] wrote:

Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to allowthis,
Sally D. Dowling, PhD
BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
Ph: 301-351-0524
http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging

------------------------------------------------------------------------

* From: *Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
* Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
* To: *[hidden email]
* Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco, December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us in booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.

Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org <http://micro-manager.org/>) is Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It controls a large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes and peripherals and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks, and multi-channel images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being developed at the Vale lab at UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.

We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a Yokogawa spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser launch, Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from a Mac Pro using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to do very fast multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a hardware solution based on the Arduino micro-controller (http://www.arduino.cc/).
This is also your chance to meet the new members of the Micro-Manager team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and Arthur Edelstein (who will start in January).
Of course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and everything else you would like to tell us. It is also a great opportunity to get personal hands-on training in the use of Micro-Manager. If you are running a microscope with Micro-Manager, tell us at the meeting and we might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt left for you!

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Nico

------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Jerry Sedgewick-2

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

In reply to this post by Sally_Dowling

To All,

I think I'd like to get some feedback on "what is appropriate for
posting" on this listserv and "what is not appropriate." To my way of
thinking, it is appropriate to list seminars and workshops when these
are free of charge from both commercial entities and non-profit (e.g.,
web seminars). It is also appropriate to list seminars and workshops
from commercial and non-profit agencies when these are for a fee, but I
would think that many(?) of those on this listserv may disagree with the
inclusion of commercial agencies. As far as vendors who are showing at
a conference, this is a far stickier subject. To my way of thinking,
whether the enterprise is for profit or not for profit, neither should
be able to advertise on this listserv (as much as I, too, am a votary of
the micro-manager software).

I think there is a clear separation between "products" and "education."

It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
inappropriate.

If interested, please send email to me at [hidden email] in regard to
this subject if you want to weigh in on it. I know there will not be
universal agreement, but maybe this can be a means to get to
clarification. Or maybe it will just be a way to get myself into trouble.

Jerry Sedgewick
listserv manager

[hidden email] wrote:

>
> Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to
> allowthis,
> Sally D. Dowling, PhD
> BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
> Ph: 301-351-0524
> http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> * From: *Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
> * Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
> * To: *[hidden email]
> * Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
>
>
> If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
> December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us in
> booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
>
> Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org <http://micro-manager.org/>)
> is Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It controls
> a large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes and
> peripherals and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks, and
> multi-channel images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the
> Windows, Mac and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being developed at the
> Vale lab at UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.
>
> We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a Yokogawa
> spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser launch,
> Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from a Mac Pro
> using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to do very fast
> multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a hardware solution
> based on the Arduino micro-controller (http://www.arduino.cc/).
>
> This is also your chance to meet the new members of the Micro-Manager
> team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and Arthur Edelstein
> (who will start in January).
>
> Of course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences
> with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and everything
> else you would like to tell us. It is also a great opportunity to get
> personal hands-on training in the use of Micro-Manager. If you are
> running a microscope with Micro-Manager, tell us at the meeting and we
> might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt left for you!
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> Best,
>
> Nico
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ********************************************************************
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> constitute an advertisement of a BD group's products or services or a
> solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and you
> would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or
> solicitations from this BD group, please forward this e-mail to
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> If you received this in error, please notify the sender by reply
> e-mail and delete this message. Thank you.
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> Company) 1 Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 U.S.A.
> ******************************************************************* *
>

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rjpalmer

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
discouraged.

>To All,
>
>I think I'd like to get some feedback on "what is appropriate for
>posting" on this listserv and "what is not appropriate." To my way
>of thinking, it is appropriate to list seminars and workshops when
>these are free of charge from both commercial entities and
>non-profit (e.g., web seminars). It is also appropriate to list
>seminars and workshops from commercial and non-profit agencies when
>these are for a fee, but I would think that many(?) of those on this
>listserv may disagree with the inclusion of commercial agencies. As
>far as vendors who are showing at a conference, this is a far
>stickier subject. To my way of thinking, whether the enterprise is
>for profit or not for profit, neither should be able to advertise on
>this listserv (as much as I, too, am a votary of the micro-manager
>software).
>I think there is a clear separation between "products" and "education."
>It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
>inappropriate.
>
>If interested, please send email to me at [hidden email] in regard
>to this subject if you want to weigh in on it. I know there will
>not be universal agreement, but maybe this can be a means to get to
>clarification. Or maybe it will just be a way to get myself into
>trouble.
>
>Jerry Sedgewick
>listserv manager
>
>
>
>[hidden email] wrote:
>>
>>Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to allowthis,
>>Sally D. Dowling, PhD
>>BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
>>Ph: 301-351-0524
>>http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>* From: *Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
>>* Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
>>* To: *[hidden email]
>>* Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
>>
>>
>>If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
>>December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us
>>in booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
>>
>>Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org
>><http://micro-manager.org/>) is Open Source software for microscope
>>image acquisition. It controls a large number of scientific grade
>>cameras, microscopes and peripherals and lets you take snapshots,
>>do time-lapses, z-stacks, and multi-channel images. It runs as an
>>ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac and Linux OSs.
>>Micro-Manager is being developed at the Vale lab at UCSF supported
>>by a grant from the NIH.
>>
>>We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a
>>Yokogawa spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere
>>laser launch, Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all
>>run from a Mac Pro using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a
>>way to do very fast multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks
>>using a hardware solution based on the Arduino micro-controller
>>(http://www.arduino.cc/).
>>This is also your chance to meet the new members of the
>>Micro-Manager team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and
>>Arthur Edelstein (who will start in January).
>>Of course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your
>>experiences with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development
>>and everything else you would like to tell us. It is also a great
>>opportunity to get personal hands-on training in the use of
>>Micro-Manager. If you are running a microscope with Micro-Manager,
>>tell us at the meeting and we might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt
>>left for you!
>>
>>Hope to see you there!
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Nico
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>********************************************************************
>>IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A.: This message may
>>constitute an advertisement of a BD group's products or services or
>>a solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and
>>you would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or
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>Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
>312 Church St. SE, 1-205 Hasselmo Hall
>Minneapolis, MN 55455
>(612) 624-6607
>[hidden email]
>http://www.bipl.umn.edu
>Author: "Scientific Imaging with Photoshop: Methods, Measurement and Output."
>
>Rawlight.com (dba Sedgewick Initiatives)
>965 Cromwell Avenue
>Saint Paul, MN 55114
>[hidden email]
>(651) 308-1466
>http://www.quickphotoshop.com
>http://www.heartFROMstone.com
>http://www.rawlight.com
>
>
>
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Martin Wessendorf-2

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

In reply to this post by Jerry Sedgewick-2

Jerry Sedgewick wrote:

> I think there is a clear separation between "products" and "education."
> It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
> inappropriate.

Hey, Jerry--

I disagree. I think anything informational--non-commercial, commercial,
or whatever--that's of interest to the group should be allowed.

Martin
--
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Assoc Prof, Dept Neuroscience lab: (612) 624-2991
University of Minnesota Preferred FAX: (612) 624-8118
6-145 Jackson Hall, 321 Church St. SE Dept Fax: (612) 626-5009
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Alberto Diaspro

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

I do agree with martin.
All the best
ALby

Il giorno 08/dic/08, alle ore 21:06, Martin Wessendorf ha scritto:

> Jerry Sedgewick wrote:
>
>> I think there is a clear separation between "products" and
>> "education."
>> It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
>> inappropriate.
>
> Hey, Jerry--
>
> I disagree. I think anything informational--non-commercial,
> commercial, or whatever--that's of interest to the group should be
> allowed.
>
> Martin
> --
> Martin Wessendorf, Ph.D. office: (612) 626-0145
> Assoc Prof, Dept Neuroscience lab: (612) 624-2991
> University of Minnesota Preferred FAX: (612) 624-8118
> 6-145 Jackson Hall, 321 Church St. SE Dept Fax: (612) 626-5009
> Minneapolis, MN 55455
> **MY E-MAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED. PLEASE USE [hidden email] **

-----------------------------------------------------
Resistere, Resistere, Resistere! Hold out, Hold out, Hold out!
-----------------------------------------------------
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Department of Physics, University of Genoa,
Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genoa, Italy
fax +39-010314218 - tel +39 0103536426/309;
email: [hidden email] - URL: www.lambs.it;

THINK EBSA2009! www.ebsa2009.org
----------------------------------------------

Peter Carroll

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

In reply to this post by rjpalmer

> If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
discouraged.

I agree 100%. If I want to buy a product or service, I know where to
look. Similarly, if I want to find expert confocal information, I know
where to look.

Why mix the two?

P

Robert J. Palmer Jr. wrote:

> If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
> discouraged.
>
>> To All,
>>
>> I think I'd like to get some feedback on "what is appropriate for
>> posting" on this listserv and "what is not appropriate." To my way
>> of thinking, it is appropriate to list seminars and workshops when
>> these are free of charge from both commercial entities and non-profit
>> (e.g., web seminars). It is also appropriate to list seminars and
>> workshops from commercial and non-profit agencies when these are for
>> a fee, but I would think that many(?) of those on this listserv may
>> disagree with the inclusion of commercial agencies. As far as
>> vendors who are showing at a conference, this is a far stickier
>> subject. To my way of thinking, whether the enterprise is for profit
>> or not for profit, neither should be able to advertise on this
>> listserv (as much as I, too, am a votary of the micro-manager software).
>> I think there is a clear separation between "products" and "education."
>> It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
>> inappropriate.
>>
>> If interested, please send email to me at [hidden email] in regard
>> to this subject if you want to weigh in on it. I know there will
>> not be universal agreement, but maybe this can be a means to get to
>> clarification. Or maybe it will just be a way to get myself into
>> trouble.
>>
>> Jerry Sedgewick
>> listserv manager
>>
>>
>>
>> [hidden email] wrote:
>>>
>>> Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to
>>> allowthis,
>>> Sally D. Dowling, PhD
>>> BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
>>> Ph: 301-351-0524
>>> http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> * From: *Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
>>> * Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
>>> * To: *[hidden email]
>>> * Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
>>>
>>>
>>> If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
>>> December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us
>>> in booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
>>>
>>> Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org <http://micro-manager.org/>)
>>> is Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It
>>> controls a large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes and
>>> peripherals and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks,
>>> and multi-channel images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works
>>> under the Windows, Mac and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being
>>> developed at the Vale lab at UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.
>>>
>>> We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a
>>> Yokogawa spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser
>>> launch, Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from
>>> a Mac Pro using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to do
>>> very fast multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a
>>> hardware solution based on the Arduino micro-controller
>>> (http://www.arduino.cc/). This is also your chance to meet the new
>>> members of the Micro-Manager team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us
>>> last week) and Arthur Edelstein (who will start in January). Of
>>> course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences
>>> with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and
>>> everything else you would like to tell us. It is also a great
>>> opportunity to get personal hands-on training in the use of
>>> Micro-Manager. If you are running a microscope with Micro-Manager,
>>> tell us at the meeting and we might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt
>>> left for you!
>>>
>>> Hope to see you there!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Nico
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> ********************************************************************
>>> IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A.: This message may
>>> constitute an advertisement of a BD group's products or services or
>>> a solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and
>>> you would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or
>>> solicitations from this BD group, please forward this e-mail to
>>> [hidden email].
>>> *******************************************************************
>>> This message (which includes any attachments) is intended only for
>>> the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or
>>> proprietary information and may be subject to the attorney-client
>>> privilege or other confidentiality protections. If you are not a
>>> designated recipient, you may not review, use, copy or distribute
>>> this message. If you received this in error, please notify the
>>> sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you.
>>> *******************************************************************
>>> Corporate Headquarters Mailing Address: BD (Becton, Dickinson and
>>> Company) 1 Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 U.S.A.
>>> ******************************************************************* *
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jerry (Gerald) Sedgewick
>> Program Director, Biomedical Image Processing Lab (BIPL)
>> Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
>> 312 Church St. SE, 1-205 Hasselmo Hall
>> Minneapolis, MN 55455
>> (612) 624-6607
>> [hidden email]
>> http://www.bipl.umn.edu
>> Author: "Scientific Imaging with Photoshop: Methods, Measurement and
>> Output."
>>
>> Rawlight.com (dba Sedgewick Initiatives)
>> 965 Cromwell Avenue
>> Saint Paul, MN 55114
>> [hidden email]
>> (651) 308-1466
>> http://www.quickphotoshop.com
>> http://www.heartFROMstone.com
>> http://www.rawlight.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>

Anda Cornea

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

As it seems that we are to reach a collective decision, my opinion is:
Why not?

Anda Cornea, Ph.D.
Director Imaging and Morphology Support Core
Oregon National Primate Research Center
Oregon Heath & Science University
503-690-5293

-----Original Message-----
From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Peter Carroll
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:10 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

> If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
discouraged.

I agree 100%. If I want to buy a product or service, I know where to
look. Similarly, if I want to find expert confocal information, I know
where to look.

Why mix the two?

P

Robert J. Palmer Jr. wrote:

Alberto Diaspro

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

this is real democracy...
Il giorno 08/dic/08, alle ore 21:16, Anda Cornea ha scritto:

> As it seems that we are to reach a collective decision, my opinion is:
> Why not?
>
> Anda Cornea, Ph.D.
> Director Imaging and Morphology Support Core
> Oregon National Primate Research Center
> Oregon Heath & Science University
> 503-690-5293
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]
> ] On Behalf Of Peter Carroll
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:10 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: advertising a booth at a meeting
>
>
>> If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
> discouraged.
>
> I agree 100%. If I want to buy a product or service, I know where to
> look. Similarly, if I want to find expert confocal information, I
> know
> where to look.
>
> Why mix the two?
>
> P
>
>
>
> Robert J. Palmer Jr. wrote:
>> If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
>> discouraged.
>>
>>> To All,
>>>
>>> I think I'd like to get some feedback on "what is appropriate for
>>> posting" on this listserv and "what is not appropriate." To my way
>>> of thinking, it is appropriate to list seminars and workshops when
>>> these are free of charge from both commercial entities and non-
>>> profit
>>> (e.g., web seminars). It is also appropriate to list seminars and
>>> workshops from commercial and non-profit agencies when these are for
>>> a fee, but I would think that many(?) of those on this listserv may
>>> disagree with the inclusion of commercial agencies. As far as
>>> vendors who are showing at a conference, this is a far stickier
>>> subject. To my way of thinking, whether the enterprise is for
>>> profit
>>> or not for profit, neither should be able to advertise on this
>>> listserv (as much as I, too, am a votary of the micro-manager
>>> software).
>>> I think there is a clear separation between "products" and
>>> "education."
>>> It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
>>> inappropriate.
>>>
>>> If interested, please send email to me at [hidden email] in regard
>>> to this subject if you want to weigh in on it. I know there will
>>> not be universal agreement, but maybe this can be a means to get to
>>> clarification. Or maybe it will just be a way to get myself into
>>> trouble.
>>>
>>> Jerry Sedgewick
>>> listserv manager
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [hidden email] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to
>>>> allowthis,
>>>> Sally D. Dowling, PhD
>>>> BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
>>>> Ph: 301-351-0524
>>>> http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * From: *Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
>>>> * Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
>>>> * To: *[hidden email]
>>>> * Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
>>>> December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us
>>>> in booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
>>>>
>>>> Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org <http://micro-manager.org/
>>>> >)
>>>> is Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It
>>>> controls a large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes
>>>> and
>>>> peripherals and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks,
>>>> and multi-channel images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works
>>>> under the Windows, Mac and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being
>>>> developed at the Vale lab at UCSF supported by a grant from the
>>>> NIH.
>>>>
>>>> We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a
>>>> Yokogawa spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere
>>>> laser
>>>> launch, Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run
>>>> from
>>>> a Mac Pro using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to
>>>> do
>>>> very fast multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a
>>>> hardware solution based on the Arduino micro-controller
>>>> (http://www.arduino.cc/). This is also your chance to meet the new
>>>> members of the Micro-Manager team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us
>>>> last week) and Arthur Edelstein (who will start in January). Of
>>>> course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences
>>>> with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and
>>>> everything else you would like to tell us. It is also a great
>>>> opportunity to get personal hands-on training in the use of
>>>> Micro-Manager. If you are running a microscope with Micro-Manager,
>>>> tell us at the meeting and we might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt
>>>> left for you!
>>>>
>>>> Hope to see you there!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Nico
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ********************************************************************
>>>> IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A.: This message may
>>>> constitute an advertisement of a BD group's products or services or
>>>> a solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and
>>>> you would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or
>>>> solicitations from this BD group, please forward this e-mail to
>>>> [hidden email].
>>>> *******************************************************************
>>>> This message (which includes any attachments) is intended only for
>>>> the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or
>>>> proprietary information and may be subject to the attorney-client
>>>> privilege or other confidentiality protections. If you are not a
>>>> designated recipient, you may not review, use, copy or distribute
>>>> this message. If you received this in error, please notify the
>>>> sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you.
>>>> *******************************************************************
>>>> Corporate Headquarters Mailing Address: BD (Becton, Dickinson and
>>>> Company) 1 Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 U.S.A.
>>>> ******************************************************************* *
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jerry (Gerald) Sedgewick
>>> Program Director, Biomedical Image Processing Lab (BIPL)
>>> Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
>>> 312 Church St. SE, 1-205 Hasselmo Hall
>>> Minneapolis, MN 55455
>>> (612) 624-6607
>>> [hidden email]
>>> http://www.bipl.umn.edu
>>> Author: "Scientific Imaging with Photoshop: Methods, Measurement and
>>> Output."
>>>
>>> Rawlight.com (dba Sedgewick Initiatives)
>>> 965 Cromwell Avenue
>>> Saint Paul, MN 55114
>>> [hidden email]
>>> (651) 308-1466
>>> http://www.quickphotoshop.com
>>> http://www.heartFROMstone.com
>>> http://www.rawlight.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! --
>>> http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html ---
>>
>>

Periasamy, Ammasi (ap3t)

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

In reply to this post by Jerry Sedgewick-2

The email server list is to communicate what's going on in the field of microscopy and its usage. It may be profit or nonprofit organization can post the information. It is important to post in the list server so that the members can follow the progress or development in this field as long as they do not mention the price of their products.
For example, the micromanager...., I came to know through this email list server.

I strongly support people should post if any new products, workshops, conferences, etc in this confocal list server.

Best,
Ammasi

Ammasi Periasamy, Ph.D.
Director, Keck Center for Cellular Imaging (KCCI)
Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering
Biology, Gilmer Hall (064), McCormick Rd
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Voice: 434-243-7602 (Office); 982-4869 (lab)
Fax:434-982-5210; Email:[hidden email]
http//:www.kcci.virginia.edu
************************
Workshop on FRET Microscopy, March 3-7, 2009
http://www.kcci.virginia.edu/workshop/workshop2009/index.php
*************************

-----Original Message-----
From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jerry Sedgewick
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 2:01 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

To All,

I think I'd like to get some feedback on "what is appropriate for
posting" on this listserv and "what is not appropriate." To my way of
thinking, it is appropriate to list seminars and workshops when these
are free of charge from both commercial entities and non-profit (e.g.,
web seminars). It is also appropriate to list seminars and workshops
from commercial and non-profit agencies when these are for a fee, but I
would think that many(?) of those on this listserv may disagree with the
inclusion of commercial agencies. As far as vendors who are showing at
a conference, this is a far stickier subject. To my way of thinking,
whether the enterprise is for profit or not for profit, neither should
be able to advertise on this listserv (as much as I, too, am a votary of
the micro-manager software).

I think there is a clear separation between "products" and "education."

It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
inappropriate.

If interested, please send email to me at [hidden email] in regard to
this subject if you want to weigh in on it. I know there will not be
universal agreement, but maybe this can be a means to get to
clarification. Or maybe it will just be a way to get myself into trouble.

Jerry Sedgewick
listserv manager

Richard Superfine

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

In reply to this post by Alberto Diaspro

We have a P41 center supported by NIH, and through this mission we run a
yearly workshop for which we charge a fee. This fee does not cover all of
the workshop expenses, which are mostly covered by NIH and university funds.
It seems to me, both as an "advertiser" and as a listserve user, that this
educational opportunity is appropriate for posting.

Richard Superfine
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Director, Center for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and
Manipulation
Phillips Hall CB3255
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255
919-962-1185; 919-962-0480 (fax)
CISMM.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Diaspro
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 3:23 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

this is real democracy...
Il giorno 08/dic/08, alle ore 21:16, Anda Cornea ha scritto:

> As it seems that we are to reach a collective decision, my opinion is:
> Why not?
>
> Anda Cornea, Ph.D.
> Director Imaging and Morphology Support Core Oregon National Primate
> Research Center Oregon Heath & Science University
> 503-690-5293
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Confocal Microscopy List
> [mailto:[hidden email]
> ] On Behalf Of Peter Carroll
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:10 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: advertising a booth at a meeting
>
>
>> If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
> discouraged.
>
> I agree 100%. If I want to buy a product or service, I know where to
> look. Similarly, if I want to find expert confocal information, I
> know where to look.
>
> Why mix the two?
>
> P
>
>
>
> Robert J. Palmer Jr. wrote:
>> If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
>> discouraged.
>>
>>> To All,
>>>
>>> I think I'd like to get some feedback on "what is appropriate for
>>> posting" on this listserv and "what is not appropriate." To my way
>>> of thinking, it is appropriate to list seminars and workshops when
>>> these are free of charge from both commercial entities and non-
>>> profit (e.g., web seminars). It is also appropriate to list
>>> seminars and workshops from commercial and non-profit agencies when
>>> these are for a fee, but I would think that many(?) of those on this
>>> listserv may disagree with the inclusion of commercial agencies. As
>>> far as vendors who are showing at a conference, this is a far
>>> stickier subject. To my way of thinking, whether the enterprise is
>>> for profit or not for profit, neither should be able to advertise on
>>> this listserv (as much as I, too, am a votary of the micro-manager
>>> software).
>>> I think there is a clear separation between "products" and
>>> "education."
>>> It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
>>> inappropriate.
>>>
>>> If interested, please send email to me at [hidden email] in regard
>>> to this subject if you want to weigh in on it. I know there will
>>> not be universal agreement, but maybe this can be a means to get to
>>> clarification. Or maybe it will just be a way to get myself into
>>> trouble.
>>>
>>> Jerry Sedgewick
>>> listserv manager
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [hidden email] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to
>>>> allowthis, Sally D. Dowling, PhD BD Biosciences, Bioimaging
>>>> Technical Sales
>>>> Ph: 301-351-0524
>>>> http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> -----
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * From: *Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
>>>> * Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
>>>> * To: *[hidden email]
>>>> * Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
>>>> December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us
>>>> in booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
>>>>
>>>> Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org <http://micro-manager.org/
>>>> >)
>>>> is Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It
>>>> controls a large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes
>>>> and peripherals and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses,
>>>> z-stacks, and multi-channel images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin
>>>> and works under the Windows, Mac and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is
>>>> being developed at the Vale lab at UCSF supported by a grant from
>>>> the NIH.
>>>>
>>>> We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a
>>>> Yokogawa spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere
>>>> laser launch, Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all
>>>> run from a Mac Pro using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a
>>>> way to do very fast multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks
>>>> using a hardware solution based on the Arduino micro-controller
>>>> (http://www.arduino.cc/). This is also your chance to meet the new
>>>> members of the Micro-Manager team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us
>>>> last week) and Arthur Edelstein (who will start in January). Of
>>>> course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences
>>>> with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and
>>>> everything else you would like to tell us. It is also a great
>>>> opportunity to get personal hands-on training in the use of
>>>> Micro-Manager. If you are running a microscope with Micro-Manager,
>>>> tell us at the meeting and we might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt
>>>> left for you!
>>>>
>>>> Hope to see you there!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Nico
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> -----
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *******************************************************************
>>>> * IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR RECIPIENTS IN THE U.S.A.: This message may
>>>> constitute an advertisement of a BD group's products or services or
>>>> a solicitation of interest in them. If this is such a message and
>>>> you would like to opt out of receiving future advertisements or
>>>> solicitations from this BD group, please forward this e-mail to
>>>> [hidden email].
>>>> *******************************************************************
>>>> This message (which includes any attachments) is intended only for
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Re: Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting

In reply to this post by Dale Callaham

Hi Dale,

I hope all imaging community is happy to see messages from your group.
There is no need to apologize for it.

And, Sally, if your company is "too ethical", why have you revealed
your commercial interest by publishing your comment on the list-server?
In this case, you have a "security job" policing a lot of other
open-source projects.

With all respect.
E

Dale Callaham wrote:

> I'd like to add to my previous comment.
>
> MicroManager is certainly NOT commercial, and neither is it
> anti-commercial. I hope that vendors will get it clear that regardless
> of how full of features a commercial product may be, there is frequently
> something that it DOESN'T do and with open source extensible tools we
> can solve these problems cooperatively as a community and add to the
> array of tools at our disposal. If one looks at the list of
> community-contributed plugin enhancements for ImageJ for instance, it is
> clear that the microscopy and imaging community finds this a very
> beneficial approach. I know that I have written a number of plugins to
> solve problems I have faced. I have less experience with MicroManager
> but I am hearing very good things about it and think it is on the same
> course with ImageJ, and applaud the people who devote their time to this
> effort.
>
> Hardware vendors should not fear this movement; they can benefit because
> these tools make the hardware more valuable and useful. But system
> integrators - now there is a worry there, right? What if people could
> see that the emperor has no clothes...... I see that BD Biosci IS a
> commercial interest and is essentially competing with the non-commercial
> MicroManager by selling OEM cameras and their tools, and apparently
> quite worried... Folks, maybe this is a tip to have another look at
> MicroManager....
>
> And shame on Sally and BD Bioscience for trying to suppress
> non-commercial cooperative efforts.
>
> Dale
>
>
>
> [hidden email] wrote:
>
>> Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to
>> allowthis,
>> Sally D. Dowling, PhD
>> BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
>> Ph: 301-351-0524
>> http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> * From: *Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
>> * Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
>> * To: *[hidden email]
>> * Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
>>
>>
>> If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
>> December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us in
>> booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
>>
>> Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org <http://micro-manager.org/>) is
>> Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It controls a
>> large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes and peripherals
>> and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks, and multi-channel
>> images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the Windows, Mac
>> and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being developed at the Vale lab at
>> UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.
>>
>> We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a Yokogawa
>> spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser launch,
>> Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from a Mac Pro
>> using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to do very fast
>> multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a hardware solution
>> based on the Arduino micro-controller (http://www.arduino.cc/).
>>
>> This is also your chance to meet the new members of the Micro-Manager
>> team: Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and Arthur Edelstein
>> (who will start in January).
>>
>> Of course, our main goal is to meet you, hear about your experiences
>> with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future development and everything
>> else you would like to tell us. It is also a great opportunity to get
>> personal hands-on training in the use of Micro-Manager. If you are
>> running a microscope with Micro-Manager, tell us at the meeting and we
>> might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt left for you!
>>
>> Hope to see you there!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Nico
>>
>>
> .
>
>

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Boswell, Carl A - (cboswell)

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

In reply to this post by Peter Carroll

While a blatant advertisement is not appropriate for this listserv, I
remember a very interesting and pointed discourse between vendors about
digital cameras occuring here. As long as it is informative, I see no
reason to disallow commercial interests from discussing issues, comparing
their products with others or announcing something new. Indeed, there have
been many instances where someone sent out a plea to the community, and the
vendor specifically mentioned was notably quiet.

We are are all (those with profit motive and those that consume) capable of
discriminating between crass commercialism and a note that would interest
the imaging community. Clearly any business that hopes to retain a higher
level of credibility within this community should be able to distinguish
between these concepts. If they can not, then this current discussion would
suggest that they will certainly learn in short order.

Regards,
Carl

Carl A. Boswell, Ph.D.
Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Arizona
520-954-7053
FAX 520-621-3709
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Carroll" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

> > If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
> discouraged.
>
> I agree 100%. If I want to buy a product or service, I know where to look.
> Similarly, if I want to find expert confocal information, I know where to
> look.
>
> Why mix the two?
>
> P
>
>
>
> Robert J. Palmer Jr. wrote:
>> If you have to pay for it, it is commercial and such posts should be
>> discouraged.
>>
>>> To All,
>>>
>>> I think I'd like to get some feedback on "what is appropriate for
>>> posting" on this listserv and "what is not appropriate." To my way of
>>> thinking, it is appropriate to list seminars and workshops when these
>>> are free of charge from both commercial entities and non-profit (e.g.,
>>> web seminars). It is also appropriate to list seminars and workshops
>>> from commercial and non-profit agencies when these are for a fee, but I
>>> would think that many(?) of those on this listserv may disagree with the
>>> inclusion of commercial agencies. As far as vendors who are showing at
>>> a conference, this is a far stickier subject. To my way of thinking,
>>> whether the enterprise is for profit or not for profit, neither should
>>> be able to advertise on this listserv (as much as I, too, am a votary of
>>> the micro-manager software).
>>> I think there is a clear separation between "products" and "education."
>>> It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
>>> inappropriate.
>>>
>>> If interested, please send email to me at [hidden email] in regard to
>>> this subject if you want to weigh in on it. I know there will not be
>>> universal agreement, but maybe this can be a means to get to
>>> clarification. Or maybe it will just be a way to get myself into
>>> trouble.
>>>
>>> Jerry Sedgewick
>>> listserv manager
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [hidden email] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Seems like commericial ad to me- my compamy, BD, is too ethical to
>>>> allowthis,
>>>> Sally D. Dowling, PhD
>>>> BD Biosciences, Bioimaging Technical Sales
>>>> Ph: 301-351-0524
>>>> http://www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * From: *Nico Stuurman [[hidden email]]
>>>> * Sent: *12/07/2008 04:10 PM PST
>>>> * To: *[hidden email]
>>>> * Subject: *Micro-Manager at the ASCB meeting
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you are attending the upcoming ASCB meeting in San Francisco,
>>>> December 13-17 (http://www.ascb.org/meetings/), please come see us in
>>>> booth 2009 in the Exhibition space.
>>>>
>>>> Micro-Manager (http://micro-manager.org <http://micro-manager.org/>) is
>>>> Open Source software for microscope image acquisition. It controls a
>>>> large number of scientific grade cameras, microscopes and peripherals
>>>> and lets you take snapshots, do time-lapses, z-stacks, and
>>>> multi-channel images. It runs as an ImageJ plugin and works under the
>>>> Windows, Mac and Linux OSs. Micro-Manager is being developed at the
>>>> Vale lab at UCSF supported by a grant from the NIH.
>>>>
>>>> We are planning on having a microscope setup consisting of a Yokogawa
>>>> spinning disk confocal, Hamamatsu EM camera, Solamere laser launch,
>>>> Zeiss AxioObserver and ASI XY and piezo Z-stage all run from a Mac Pro
>>>> using Micro-Manager! We will be demonstrating a way to do very fast
>>>> multi-channel imaging and acquiring Z-stacks using a hardware solution
>>>> based on the Arduino micro-controller (http://www.arduino.cc/). This is
>>>> also your chance to meet the new members of the Micro-Manager team:
>>>> Oleksiy Danikhno (who joined us last week) and Arthur Edelstein (who
>>>> will start in January). Of course, our main goal is to meet you, hear
>>>> about your experiences with Micro-Manager, your wishes for future
>>>> development and everything else you would like to tell us. It is also
>>>> a great opportunity to get personal hands-on training in the use of
>>>> Micro-Manager. If you are running a microscope with Micro-Manager,
>>>> tell us at the meeting and we might have a Micro-Manager T-shirt left
>>>> for you!
>>>>
>>>> Hope to see you there!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Nico
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jerry (Gerald) Sedgewick
>>> Program Director, Biomedical Image Processing Lab (BIPL)
>>> Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
>>> 312 Church St. SE, 1-205 Hasselmo Hall
>>> Minneapolis, MN 55455
>>> (612) 624-6607
>>> [hidden email]
>>> http://www.bipl.umn.edu
>>> Author: "Scientific Imaging with Photoshop: Methods, Measurement and
>>> Output."
>>>
>>> Rawlight.com (dba Sedgewick Initiatives)
>>> 965 Cromwell Avenue
>>> Saint Paul, MN 55114
>>> [hidden email]
>>> (651) 308-1466
>>> http://www.quickphotoshop.com
>>> http://www.heartFROMstone.com
>>> http://www.rawlight.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>

Aryeh Weiss

Leica LAS AF on virtualbox

In reply to this post by Alberto Diaspro

Here is a followup on my question of running Leica LAS AF under Windows XP64.
To summarize -- it is clearly not supported by Leica, and cannot be installed
under XP64 without some change.

I tried using VirtualBox to run 32 bit Window as a guest O/S under XP64. This
was remarkably simple to set up, and in fact the Leica LAS AF installation went
smoothly.

Unfortunately, the USB dongle is not picked up by LAS in this configuration.
This is disappointing because the USB port is properly captured by the 32 bit
guest O/S, and I can even see the dongle as a USB disk inside the 32 bit O/S.
Just to make sure, I copied the hidden files from the dongle to the desktop of
the 32 bit guest O/S. However, LAS AF still reports that the dongle was not found.

Probably we will just put LAS somewhere else or not bother with it, since I
prefer doing postprocessing in ImageJ.

Another suggestion was to fool the LAS installer into thinking that XP64 is
really XP32. I haven't had a chance to try that.

--aryeh
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Bar Ilan University
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cromey

Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

In reply to this post by Jerry Sedgewick-2

Jerry (and the List),

I don't have a problem with commercial announcements. If vendors would like to announce something, the announcement should be relevant to the list (e.g., confocal or LM in nature), brief, and include a link to a website for more detail. No bad mouthing of competitors would be allowed. If a vendor seems to have an excessive number of announcements, that might be a time for the list owner to quietly tell the vendor to "tone it down".

Doug

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-----Original Message-----
From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jerry Sedgewick
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:01 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: advertising a booth at a meeting

To All,

I think I'd like to get some feedback on "what is appropriate for
posting" on this listserv and "what is not appropriate." To my way of
thinking, it is appropriate to list seminars and workshops when these
are free of charge from both commercial entities and non-profit (e.g.,
web seminars). It is also appropriate to list seminars and workshops
from commercial and non-profit agencies when these are for a fee, but I
would think that many(?) of those on this listserv may disagree with the
inclusion of commercial agencies. As far as vendors who are showing at
a conference, this is a far stickier subject. To my way of thinking,
whether the enterprise is for profit or not for profit, neither should
be able to advertise on this listserv (as much as I, too, am a votary of
the micro-manager software).

I think there is a clear separation between "products" and "education."

It would be useful to all to clarify what can be posted and what is
inappropriate.

If interested, please send email to me at [hidden email] in regard to
this subject if you want to weigh in on it. I know there will not be
universal agreement, but maybe this can be a means to get to
clarification. Or maybe it will just be a way to get myself into trouble.

Jerry Sedgewick
listserv manager

[hidden email] wrote: