Dear Users

from April 16 - 18, 2024, there will be a super interesting workshop from one of the world leading microscope manufacturer Abbelight at CSSB with a focus on DNA-PAINT.
DNA-PAINT is a powerful super-resolution light microscopy technique that might be rather easy to use and allowed multiplex imaging. This approach achieves a resolution of a few ten nm (https://www.abbelight.com/dna-paint/).
Please be aware that UMIF has a super resolution microscope of Abbelight!!!!!

If you are interested in this technique, please join an online prep meeting on March 14, 2024 at 16:00. During the prep meeting the technique will be explained and we can discuss experiments that you might want to carry out with your own samples. Abbelight can then provide DNA-PAINT staining reagents that you can use beforehand and then measure your samples at the workshop.

If you want to join the workshop and/or the online prep meeting, please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so that we can assemble a list of interested people.
Please diffuse this information to anyone might be interested, this is a unique chance to use.

Best wishes
Antonio Virgilio Failla

Dear users. 
Our workshop season becomes hot:
The next appointment I would like to bring to your attention is with Evident.
Evident will promote a compact, easy to handle, powerful slide scanner imaging system that is not the classical wide field slide scanner: it can produce images with confocal resolutions also in 3D.

When: 26.09-28-09
Where:    lecture: UKE, seminar room 14, building N27
               practical sections: UKE, seminar room 1, building N45

To get more information and for the registration link please look at the flyer below (registration is free of charge).
As always you are all warmly invited to join and let join everyone might with to participate.

Thank you very much to make this fantastic imaging community
best wishes

Antonio Virgilio Failla

Dear users,

I am happy and thrilled  to announce that the 12.10. we will be hosting a very interesting meeting: the spatial biology tour from Lunaphore: The aim of this meeting is to introduce the "spatial revolution" to the scientific community. This meeting will be focus on:

1. How spatial biology is used in research areas such as immuno-oncology, neuroscience, immunology and infectious diseases;
2. How to leverage your existing antibody libraries when performing high-parameter spatial tissue analysis;
3. The benefits of an end-to-end spatial biology solution to interrogate your samples and extract biological insights.

You can find the registration link in the flyer below and registration for this event is free of charge.

We are all warmly invited and please extend this invitation to every one you think  might be interested.

Looking forward to see many of you registering !!!

Best wishes

Antonio Virgilio Failla (UMIF)

Dear light microscopy passionate users:

Our day there is a high demand within biomedical research to establish reliable simple but also high content imaging protocols. Beside imaging a bigger challenge is how to turn the huge amount of imaging data into quantitative data points as well as presenting convincing images and movies.

UMIF is happy to present Andor/IMARIS solution to this important need.

They will offer a workshop divided in 3 parts introduction/imaging and data visualization and quantification.

We are all warmly invited to attend but practical slots are limited therefore we need to register (registration free of charges  by using the link present on the attached flyer.

Please feel free to extend this invite all you think might be interested.

For detailed schedule of the workshop please see attached flyer.

If you have any questions about the workshop please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please follow this link to the Andor&Imaris Workshop event page for a brief description and details about the microscope and the software.

Best wishes

Antonio Virgilio Failla (UMIF)