This project has been made possible in part by a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Turku BioImaging provides expertise in light microscopy and, in addition, coordinates major imaging initiatives on the national level in Finland.
Turku BioImaging and its core facility Cell Imaging & Cytometry embrace state-of-the-art imaging technologies ranging from molecular and cellular imaging to whole animal imaging and high content analysis. The main research areas in Turku are cell migration, adhesion and invasion, organotypic cultures, neurology and cancer biology, immunology and osteology.
Available imaging technologies and services can be found on the Cell Imaging & Cytometry website.
Websites:
https://bioscience.fi/services/cell-imaging/services/
To apply for an international job shadowing program, please complete the form found here.
Aspects related to user access
Core facility management
Quality Management
Image data storage and analysis
Hands-on Abberior 3D STED, Deltavision OMX SR SIM, TIRF, spinning disk and laser scanning confocal microscopes, FLIM etc
Lab visits including to the Turku PET Center
Seminars and workshops
Imaging specialist
Technician
Up to 2 weeks
Helsinki BioImaging provides light and electron microscopy services to researchers in the city of Helsinki and consists of three imaging core facilities: Electron Microscopy Unit (EMBI), Light Microscopy Unit (LMU), and Biomedicum Imaging Unit (BIU).
A job shadowing visit to one or more facilities is possible as part of one job shadowing visit.
Together, EMBI, LMU, and BIU provide a wide range of light and electron microscopy services, from classical imaging technologies to advanced, state-of-the-art technologies, from designing imaging experiments to analyzing image data ranging from 3D to 4D including electron microscopy data. More information about the imaging technologies and equipment, image analysis software, ect. can be found by visiting the websites listed below.
Websites:
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/infrastructures/bioimaging/embi
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/infrastructures/bioimaging/light-microscopy-unit
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/infrastructures/bioimaging/biomedicum-imaging-unit
To apply for an international job shadowing program, please complete the form found here.
Core facility management
Software tools
Image data storage and analysis
Hands-on
Seminars, courses and workshops (to be agreed before the visit)
Imaging specialist
Technical personnel
1-8 weeks
Biocenter Oulu Tissue Imaging Center, Light & Electron Microscopy Core Facility
Oulu BioImaging and its core facility Tissue Imaging Center provides both light and electron microscopy expertise. At the frontier between molecular and cell biology, whole animal imaging, optoelectronics and machine vision, mathematics and bioinformatics, Oulu BioImaging gathers several outstanding biologically, medically and technically-oriented imaging laboratories with the aim to cover recent advances in microscopy, spectroscopy, optical tomography, photonics, pattern recognition, and image analysis.
Available light microscopy technologies and expertise can be found here.
Available electron microscopy technologies and expertise can be found here.
In addition, Oulu BioImaging provides expertise in Optical Projection Tomography (OPT).
In addition to collecting images by various imaging technologies, Oulu BioImaging provides various quantitative measurements and computational analysis and an integrative understanding of a wide range of cellular and tissue activities. Oulu BioImaging is a highly pluridisciplinary network with participants working in the fields of biology, physics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering. Guests are welcome to visit not only light and electron microscopy units but also other Oulu BioImaging facilities.
Websites:
https://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/tic
https://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/lm
https://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/opt
https://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/em
To apply for an international job shadowing program, please complete the form found here.
Aspects related to user access
Core facility management
Quality Management
Software tools
Image data storage and analysis
Hands-on all available instruments depending on the ongoing experiments
Seminars, workshops etc
Facility manager
Imaging specialist
1-3 days
