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Mr. Doug Cromey served as a lecturer for the Optical Microscopy & Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences course, Woods Hole Marine Biological Institute, Woods Hole, MA. His presentation was entitled “Ethics & Scientific Digital Imaging”.
Mr. Cromey is the co-manager of the RII Imaging Cores - Optical and a 1998 alumni of the OMIBS course.
On February 10, 2021 Mr. Doug Cromey was an invited seminar speaker for The Rockefeller Institute in New York, NY. His presentation was entitled “Everyone Is Entitled to His Own Opinion, but Not His Own Facts: Avoiding Fake Views in Digital Imaging”. https://www.rockefeller.edu/events-and-lectures/49389-everyone-is-entitled-to-his-own-opinion-but-not-his-own-facts-avoiding-fake-views-in-digital-imaging/
Mr. Cromey is the co-manager of the RII Imaging Cores - Optical.
In May and June of 2021 the computer workstations in the RII Imaging Cores - Optical were upgraded to new HP hardware and are now running Microsoft Windows 10. The computers for the two Zeiss LSM880 instruments in Marley also received new real-time controllers, essentially a computer on a board that controls all the microscope hardware. The Zeiss Elyra S.1 received both a new instrument and post-processing computer. Other computers in Marley (LSM880 offline workstation, Stereo microscope computer) were given operating system software updates to bring them up to Windows 10.
The leftover computers have been put to good use. The image analysis workstation in LSN received a long overdue update, and the Imaging Cores - Electron facility will use one of the workstations to begin offering image analysis services. An additional Zeiss ZEN installation has been set up in the Marley location.
Our thanks to Drs Zarnescu and Eggers for submitting the LSN upgrade proposal. We also appreciate Dr. Helena Morrison for submitting the upgrade proposal for the Marley location.
The RII Equipment Enhancement Fund is designed to add or augment research capacity through the acquisition of equipment for use by multiple investigators in shared facilities or approved university core facilities.
Effective date: June 1, 2021 (revised January 21, 2025)
Applies to: RII Imaging Cores - Optical
Brief Description: Failure to cancel a scheduled reservation more than 24hrs before the reservation begins will lead to the customer being charged for the reserved time. If the available time happens to be used by a different customer, the original customer is only liable for the remainder. See policy PDF below for specifics.
The TPI 1000 is available at the Marley location. A vibratome is useful for sectioning fresh or fixed tissues into thicker slices, such as 100-200um in thickness. It features an adjustable sectioning window, a bath drain, stroke pause switch, and an anti-corrosion surface. It has a total vertical specimen stroke of 15mm.
Users will need to receive training before they can access the vibratome, as the vibrating razor blade has the potential to be very hazardous.
