Carl Zeiss MicroImaging will be sponsoring an open house for the newly renovated Integrated Imaging Center (IIC) located at the Johns Hopkins University on 11 August 2006
The Integrated Imaging Center (IIC) is housed in newly renovated space on the Hopkins Homewood campus in Dunning Hall located in the biology department and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
The centre is open to users and researchers Baltimore-wide and nationally including Engineering, JHMI, Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of Maryland, NIH, Harvard University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley and Cal Tech.
The centre is organized into five distinct suites:.
Combination ultramicrotomy/tissue culture/cell prep room.
Light microscopy suite including Marianas, two Zeiss LSM 510 Meta confocal microscopes, a Deltavision deconvolution light microscope and a few Zeiss epifluorescence microscopes.
Scanning room with a Typhoon and the ESEM.
Wet laboratory.
Transmission electron microscopy suite.
The Johns Hopkins University and the IIC have had a long and committed history with Carl Zeiss MicroImaging and microscopes.
Michael McCaffery, research scientist and director, quotes "We consider Zeiss microscopes the absolute finest and most reliable instruments available.
"The company has been enormously supportive and dedicated to the IIC at Homewood always bending over backwards to assist us".
