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Queensland Brain Institute's Advanced Microimaging and Analysis Facility
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The QBI Histology Facility
QBI Guide to Histology and Microscopy
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Instruments
Confocal Microscopes
LSM 510 META Violet (610)
ZIS LSM 510 META (level 3)
LSM 5 LIVE (412)
LSM 5 PASCAL (618)
Live Imaging Microscopes
Marinas TIRF FRET (618)
Axio Observer Indigo (618)
ZIS LSM 510 META (level 3)
LSM 5 LIVE (412)
Slide Scanners
Bright Field Slide Scanner (414)
Fluorescent Slide Scanner (414)
Stereology Instruments
Stereology Microscope (618)
Stereology Workstation (level 4)
Upright Microscopes
AxioPlan 2 Purple (412)
Axio Imager Orange (319)
Axio Imager Azure (414)
Axio Imager Green (414)
Axio Imager Blue (618)
Inverted Microscopes
Axio Observer Yellow (319)
Axio Observer Red (412)
Axio Observer Indigo (618)
Bob Olympus Inverted (610)
Marinas TIRF FRET (618)
Stereo Microscopes
StereoDiscovery (618)
Olympus Stereoscope (411)
Bright Field Imaging
Planning Your Experiment
Preparing Your Sample
Fixation – Using Paraformaldehyde
Animal Trans-cardial Perfusion Technique
Sectioning Your Tissue
Tissue Preparation for Vibratome Sectioning
Antigen Retrieval
Bright Field Protocols
Cresyl Violet Staining (Nissl Staining)
DAB Staining
Nickel DAB (N-DAB) Labeling
Haemotoylin and Eosin Staining
Neuron Recovery of Neurobiotin/biocytin labeled cells
Luxol Fast Blue
Fluorescence Imaging
Planning Your Experiment
Preparing Your Sample
Fixation – Using Paraformaldehyde
Animal Trans-cardial Perfusion Technique
Sectioning Your Tissue
Tissue Preparation for Vibratome Sectioning
Antigen Retrieval
Labeling Your Sample
Immunohistochemistry
Fluorescence and Chromogenic Labeling
Fluorescent Marker Guide
Fluorescent Marker Guide
Fluorescence Protocols
Immunohistochemistry (cultured cells and monolayers)
Immunohistochemistry (Tissue Sections)
Immunohistochemistry with Tyramide Signal Amplification (TSA)
Recipes and Solutions
Mowiol
Chrome Alum Gelatin Slide Coating
8% Paraformaldehyde for Immunofluorescence
Imaging Your Sample
Choosing the right technique
Exposure times
Fluorescent crosstalk / bleed-through
Autofluorescence
Keep things consistent
Instructions and Guides
Standard Microscopes
Axio Imager / Observer Guide
StereoDiscovery (Magenta) Guide
AxioPlan 2 Guide
Bright Field Imaging Guide
Guide to using ApoTome
High-Throughput Imaging Guide
Confocal Microscopes
LSM 5 PASCAL Guide
LSM 510 META Confocal Guide
Marinas TIRF FRET FLIM Microscope
Marinas TIRF Microscope Guide
Stereology
Stereology Microscope Guide
Stereology Information Handout
Stereology: 2D Coverslip Cell Counts, Neurite Lengths and Branching
Slide Scanning
Slide Scanning Information Handout
Bright Field Whole Slide Scanning Workflow
Bright Field Tissue Segmentation Workflow
Bright Field Manual Scanning Workflow
Cropping tissue sections from slide scanner images
Image Analysis
Neurolucida: Automated Analysis of Scanned Slides
Imaris Guides
Imaris: Creating a Surface
Imaris : Creating Cell Surfaces on Undefined Cells
Imaris: Using a surface to mask a channel
Imaris: Counting Cells on Slide Scanner Images
Imaris: Neuron Tracing with the Filament Tracing Wizard
Colocalisation
Analysis Workstations
Imaris Workstation 1 (level 4)
Imaris Workstation 2 (level 4)
Imaris Workstation 3 (level 4)
Stereology Workstation (level 4)
AxioVision Workstation (level 6)
Analysis Software
Image J / FIJI
Imaris
SlideCrop
Stereo Investigator
Neurolucida
Vaa3D
Advanced Techniques
Super Resolution Microscopy
Single Molecule Localisation Techniques (PALM/STORM)
Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM)
Photobleaching with non-linear processing (PiMP)
Super Resolution Optical Fluctuation Microscopy (SOFI)
Super Resolution Articles
Fluorophores for PALM and STORM
PALM/STORM Image Reconstruction
TIRF (total internal reflection fluorescence)
FRET (Förster resonance energy transfer)
FRAP (Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching)
Stereology
Slide Scanning
Live Imaging
Images and Movies
QBI Art in Neuroscience
2008 Competition
2009 Competition
2010 Competition
2011 Competition
Links
Request Help / Training
Book an Instrument
High-Throughput Imaging Guide
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