<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>We are delighted to welcome Markus Posch to the post of Scientific Officer for OMX and to announce a significant upgrade to the microscope (please see below for more details). For those of you who are interested in super resolution light microscopy or super fast live cell imaging, please do come and speak to Markus to discuss your experiment. He is based in the Light Microscopy Office (1.05F) and the OMX room (1.05D) in the central microscope facility or you can email to <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F00FF"><a href="mailto:omx-admin@dundee.ac.uk">omx-admin@dundee.ac.uk</a></font></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div>Sam Swift and Jason Swedlow</div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>OMX NEWS:</b></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">We are happy to announce that the SULSA superresolution microscope is now available again for use!</font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Dr Markus Posch has been appointed as the new OMX Scientific Officer. Markus has several years of imaging experience in Jason Swedlow's lab, has used OMX extensively, and has just finished training with Applied Precision, the manufacturer of OMX.</font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font class="apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande"><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">The OMX superresolution microscope has recently been upgraded with new hardware and electronics. Most importantly, new software has been installed, making OMX superresolution microscopy more user friendly and stable.</span></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><br></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">The OMX microscope allows exploration of spatial and temporal elements of biological processes using high resolution fluorescence microscopy. Two main imaging protocols are available on OMX:</font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">i) ultrahigh resolution of fixed samples by Structured Illumination</font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">ii) very fast, multi-spectral, live-cell 3D imaging</font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><br></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">To find out more about the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA) OMX microscope please visit the OMX webpage </font><u><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#0000ff"><a href="http://microscopy.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/omx/"><i>http://microscopy.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/omx/</i></a></font></u><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3"> or send email to </font><u><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3" color="#6666ff"><a href="mailto:omx-admin@dundee.ac.uk"><i>omx-admin@dundee.ac.uk</i></a></font></u><i><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3"> </font></i></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><br></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Finally, we want to thank you for your patience. With the upgraded system and new software in place, we are looking forward to more great images!!!</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "></div></div></body></html>