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Dear Matthieu,
Even though I have email correspondence with equipment users prior to their training session, I am still often surprised when they show up with their samples.
For live imaging, I always meet with the person face-to-face before booking any equipment so that I can determine which system is best for them to start with and there are so many questions that need to be asked/answered.
Also, we have such a broad range of research to support in our facility, from biological/biomedical/pharmacy to materials/geology, etc. that it would be very hard to cover all options and possibilities. Plus there is always the analysis to consider and we try to take the reverse view as per the paper that Teng-Leong alluded to and advertised to this list a while ago.
I do have people asking to learn particular instrumentation as they can see all of our machines on our website. But I still ask the questions as sometimes they will ask to learn an invert (or upright) when their sample is not suitable. For example, the very confident person who requested the upright and turned up with a multiwell plate...
I think our team of experts is still the best option for helping users decide and in a timely way. We are also the ones who will be training and supporting them so we do need to know what is coming!
Kind regards,
Jacqui
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Dear all,
I've been repetitively asked by some users if I could build a Web app that would guide them through a series of questions (like a personality test) to the ideal microscope(s) for their experiment. Does anyone have experience with this? Which app have you used?
Obviously, I'd rather they come and talk but maybe I'm just scary :-)
Sincerely,
Matthieu
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