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The Imaging Center

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Contact: imaging@mcb.harvard.edu

   

Biolabs, Room 2052
16 Divinity Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Renate Hellmiss, Graphics
hellmiss@fas.harvard.edu
(617) 496-9159
(Out on Fridays)

Dave and Renate out schedule

   
Dave Smith, Manager
dmsmith@fas.harvard.edu
(617) 496-5422

 

Equipment Available:

Microscopes:
Zeiss LSM510 META on an upright microscope with 355 laser in addition to the 488,543,633 lasers
Zeiss LSM510 META on an inverted microscope with a 405 laser in addition to the 488,543,633 lasers
Applies Precision Deconvolution Microscope
Leica DMRB Microscope with a Digital Camera for light microscopy
Spinning Disk Confocal with 481nm and 561nm lasers on an Inverted Olympus Microscope

Both the Leica and Spinning Disk use software from Improvision - Open Lab and Volocity respectively.
Additionally, Volocity software,installed on a Mac G5 can open and render in 3D files from any of the confocals as well as the DeltaVision system.

Computers:
There are a number of MacIntosh G4s and G5s with Photoshop, Canvas, Illustrator, Acrobat and PowerPoint installed. There is also 1 PC with Canvas, Photoshop and PowerPoint installed and PCMaclan also installed. This means that you may access both PC's and Macs from this machine as well as print -through it from your own PC. Please see Dave for further information.

Other Equipment:
Flatbed Scanners
35mm Slide Scanner

Printers:
Tektronix Phaser 6350 laser printer
Tektronix Phaser 8550 and 8560 solid ink plain paper printers
hp designjet 5000ps and 5500ps inkjet printers (poster printers)
Fujix Pictrography 3000 RGB printer

Print Costs:

24-hour availablity paper transparency
Tektronix Phaser 6350 0.50 1.50
Tektronix Phaser 8550/8560 0.50 1.50
M-F 9:00am - 5:00pm availability  
hp designjet 5000ps/5500ps 10.00/foot
paper width = 3 feet >> 3x4 foot poster = $40.00
n/a
Fujix Pictrography 3000 5.50 n/a

Download PDF of the above chart

Please note: access to the Confocal Microscopes and the Deconvolution Microscope is limited to persons trained by Dave. Training is available by appointment.

Help Pages:

- Creating a Poster

Where to go for further help:
Contact Dave Smith for general questions regarding the Imaging Center. For specific network questions, including getting your machines on the network (and in the case of Windows machines, into the MCB domain), contact Life Sciences Tech Support.