Virtual desktops on Windows
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Virtual desktops are used to manage screen real estate. A user might have a bunch of web browsers open on the desktop, and then hit a key to switch to a nice clean desktop (the…
More MATLAB learning
On the topic of MATLAB learning materials (covered previously here and lots more MATLAB stuff here), MIT has some online courses freely available. Here’s an “aggressively gentle” intro to MATLAB, and …
Use ScanImage? Support it. It’s free.
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ScanImage is an excellent software package for controlling 2p scopes. It’s free and open source. It’s been actively developed and released to…
Optimizing pulse frequency for 2p imaging
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The lasers used in multiphoton imaging deliver their photons in pulses. Many commonly used systems pulse at 80 MHz. However, there are good reasons to try different frequencies.
In 2007, Donnert, Eggeling, and Hell published a Nature Methods paper where they used low frequency pulses to get more…
Optics Planet and Braintree Scientific and New Era syringe pumps: Inexpensive scientific equipment
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Optics Planet has a nice selection of inexpensive microscopes and other lab equipment. Such as these chubby, potential Cute…
Visualizations
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Visual.ly recently posted a list of the top visualizations of 2011. This is a map of the world in which Twitter…
Teaching MATLAB
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In a previous post, I gave the two line MATLAB code to generate a Gabor patch. At the other end of the spectrum, this web page spends an entire MATLAB tutorial on…
Raster plots and MATLAB
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A colleague once told me: “in MATLAB, drawing a raster plot is a trivial, one line command”. True, but then you spend another 10 lines of code trying to make it not look like…
Tycho Brahe
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Like the Mayan astronomers over 600 years before him, Tycho Brahe was a data factory. A data factory in the same vein as…
An Arch-based voltage sensor
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The newest voltage sensor is from Adam Cohen’s lab and based on a microbial rhodopsin, a class of light sensitive proteins already being put to use in optogenetics.
In this case, they’ve…
Arrests likely in Olympus case
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If you live in Japan, then you’ve already been updated by the nightly news over the past few weeks. For those of you for whom this has slipped under the radar: Olympus, the 92-year-old…
Thorlabs’ B-scope
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Thorlabs’ scope pieces and kits have been mentioned in these pages before. At SfN, they had their new B-scope on display. This is like the Sutter MOM and the…
TIRF teaching materials
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Next time you’re explaining TIRF to someone, start off by showing them this piece of artwork. (Arndt von Scheidt, source)
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Building a 2p scope, 2011 edition
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What’s new this year?
The original post on building a 2p scope still gets a lot of hits. Let’s revisit the topic.
Scientifica
Scientifica has been working hard on developing a kit for multiphoton imaging. It’s all based off of their minimalist, yet versatile SliceScope platform.
I’ve had the opportunity to check out their collection module and…
Sensapex piezo manipulators
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Sensapex is the new kid on the block for micromanipulators, and theirs have an ultra small footprint with 20mm of travel on 3 axes. Here are some pictures of one of the…
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