Education & Resources

The Keck Facility offers lectures and seminars on basic principles and practical tips of light microscopy techniques. A list of possible topics is included below. Dates are announced 2-4 weeks in advance and require registration.

Please email Cassandra Rogers to be added to the keck_lectures mailing list to get first announcements of seminars. 

Microscopy seminars and workshops outside of Whitehead

• iBioSeminars on microscopy topics
  • Fluorescence Microscopy
  • Optical sectioning and confocal microscopy
  • Bioimage Analysis Course
  • Introduction to Electron Microscopy
• 1-day workshops at the Nikon Imaging Center at Harvard Medical School

Software for viewing images collected in the Keck

• Fiji is just ImageJ--specialized package of ImageJ, incl. BioFormats plugin
• Zeiss viewers: Zen lite 2011 (confocal), AxioVision LE (widefield)
• Bitplane Imaris (Whitehead only)

Online tutorials for the software available on the Keck Facility workstation are available on the Equipment & Software page

Websites of Interest

• The resource page from IST Austria Bioimaging Facility is a fantastic list
• Theory
  • Carl Zeiss Microimaging Online Campus
  • Nikon MicroscopyU
  • Olympus Java Tutorials
  • Molecular Expressions
• Fluorescence spectra viewers
  • Fluorescence Spectra: Interactive Calculator
  • Invitrogen/Molecular Probes SpectraViewer
• Huygens Deconvolution Software and theory
• Confocal listserv -- extremely active online community of experts and novices

Organizations we like

• The Keck Foundation
• Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
• Microscopy Society of America
• New England Society of Microscopy
• American Society for Cell Biology

Basic Supplies

• Invitrogen/Molecular Probes
• Nanoprobes, Inc.
• Electron Microscopy Sciences, Diatome U.S., and Summers Optical
• Jackson ImmunoResearch Labs

Software

• MetaMorph - Molecular Devices
• Bitplane- Imaris
• SVI - Huygens Deconvolution Software

Large Equipment

• Carl Zeiss, Inc.
• Nikon Corp.
• Andor Technology
• Leica
• Tecnai