Free

LM Facility Managers Meeting 2015

Free

LM Facility Managers Meeting 2015

This annual meeting provided an opportunity for imaging facility managers to interact, discuss issues and share ideas. Providing a great forum to share ideas, it welcomed delegates from industry and microscope manufacturers as well as Managers in academia.

Programme

Monday 5th January 2015

12:00-13:00 Lunch and Registration
13:00-15:30 Session 1 – Live Cell Imaging in a Facility

13:30-13:10 Welcome
13:10 - 13:40 Tim Self High content imaging in facility- infrastructure required for large scale screens
13:40- 14:10 Nick Barry Conditional imaging
14:10 - 14:40 Peter March Building incubators
14:40 - 14:45 TechnoBite Biostatus
14:45 - 14:50 TechnoBite CoolLED
14:50 - 14:55 TechnoBite Hamamatsu

14:55-15:20 Tea and Coffee

15:20-18:00 Session 2 - Quality Control
15:20 - 15:50 Dirk Dormann Confocal Quality Control
15:50 - 16:20 Ian Dobbie The Joys of PSFs
16:20 - 16:50 Eva Wegel SimCheck
16:50 - 16:55 TechnoBite LaVision Biotec
16:55 - 17:00 TechnoBite Andor 
17:00 - 17:05 TechnoBite Phasefocus
17:05 - 17:10 TechnoBite Bitplane

Q and A 
Depart at 6pm for Homerton,
19:30 Dinner at Homerton College
21:30 till late Homerton Bar

Tuesday 6th January 2015

9:00-10:30 Session 3 - Funding etc..,

9:00 - 9:15 Markus Posch Uk BioImaging Intro
9:15 - 9:30 Peter O’Toole BIS
9:30 - 10:00 BBSRC
10:00 - 10:05 TechnoBite Renishaw
10:05 - 10:10 TechnoBite SVI
10:10- 10:15 TechnoBite Laser2000
10:15-10:20 TechnoBite BioAxial
10:20 - 10:25 TechnoBite Intelligent Imaging

10:25-11:00 Tea and Coffee

11:00-12:30 Session 4 -Management issues of running a facility 
11:00 - 12:20 Alex Laude, Booking Systems

12:20 - 12:25 TechnoBite Stratocore
12:25 - 12:30 TechnoBite ILabsolutions

11:30 - 12:00 Karen Ainge Univ or Cambridge, -Tendering ,Why and How Q and A

12:00-13:00 Session 5 - Building and developing microscopes within a facility

12:00-12:15 Marco Marcello, Implementation of a commercial Light Sheet setup in a multi-user facility: promises and pitfalls
12:15 - 12:30 Yan Gu, light-sheet microscopy and its applications at NIMR
12:30-13:00 Kevin O’Holleran, Setting up and building instruments in the context of a facility, specifically light sheet microscopy

12:30-13:00

13:00 -14:00 lunch
14:00 depart – tour of the LMB imaging facility can be arranged for this time.