Links
- Four great sites for everybody from beginners to specialists-find out about different types of microscopy and work through interactive java tutorials:
- Other general microscopy sites, with a variety of information including meetings, short courses, useful sources of microscopy information, educational resources and vendors' information:
- Link to the Institut Pasteur web page for use of the PPMS facility management system which we use in the BIRC:
- Link to the Open Microscopy Environment - OME - which develops open-source software and data format standards for the storage and manipulation of biological light microscopy data:
- Useful information for deconvolution:
in particular a Nyquist calculator page for optimizing sampling rate:
- FRET information:
- The confocal listserver:
- The multiphoton listserver:
- Databases of fluorochromes, dyes, their spectra and appropriate filter combinations (both for single and multi-photon excitation):
- Practical Microscopy courses:
Take an intensive short course to improve your practical microscopy skills and gain a thorough grasp of basic optical principles. Among the many on offer, I particularly recommend:
