Re: Rotate microscope to view vertical specimen

Posted by Robert Peterson-3-3 on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Rotate-microscope-to-view-vertical-specimen-tp2636715p2646095.html

Congrats to the Lady .... Connecticutters?
JK. A great year for the Huskies, nonetheless - Go Heels!!!

No hard feelings towards those "other" local sports teams, my wife is a wolfpack grad and I spent 5 years at UNC-NJ, I mean "Duke".

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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From: David Knecht
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:31:04 -0400
To: <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Rotate microscope to view vertical specimen

Your speaking of the University of Connecticut, of course!  Dave

On Apr 15, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Nina Allen wrote:

Duly noted and NC State did not win the basketball championship ...that
other school did....
Nina

On 4/14/09 11:05 PM, "Rosemary White" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Oops, it's NCSU, not UNC at Raleigh....  The tyranny of (quite long)

distance...

On 15/04/09 1:54 PM, "Rosemary White" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dear Richard,

Nina Allen, at UNC Raleigh, has a setup like this, I believe, used to study

plant responses to gravity.  If I remember correctly, one of her confocals

is on its side, too.

cheers,

Rosemary

Rosemary White

CSIRO Plant Industry

GPO Box 1600

Canberra, ACT 2601

Australia

ph 61 2 6246 5475

fx 61 2 6246 5334

On 15/04/09 2:26 PM, "Richard Superfine" <[hidden email]> wrote:

We are interested in viewing a cell culture that has been turned vertically

so that the surface liquid can drain. We therefore need to rotate the

microscope so that its optical axis is horizontal. We want to be able to

rotate the microscope continuously from a vertical optical axis (normal

configuration) to a horizontal one. Does anyone know of a publication that

describes the mechanical design of a rotation assembly for accomplishing

this?

Thanks,

Rich

Richard Superfine

Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Director, Center for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and

Manipulation (CISMM) Phillips Hall CB3255 University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255

919.962.1185   CISMM.org

Nina Stromgren Allen
Professor Emerita
Department of Plant Biology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7612
Phone:  [phone],2727
Fax:    [phone]
E-mail:  [hidden email]

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Dr. David Knecht    

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Co-head Flow Cytometry and Confocal Microscopy Facility

U-3125

91 N. Eagleville Rd.

University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT 06269

860-486-2200

860-486-4331 (fax)