Welcome to the Advanced Microscopy Facility (AMF), an open user facility located in the Bob Wright Centre at the University of Victoria in beautiful British Columbia.
An individual protein-loaded polymer microsphere designed for controlled release of proteins as a novel device of drug delivery. The encapsulated proteins are seen inside the microsphere shown. Poly(captrolactone) polymer (PCL) is used, and the encapsulated protein is Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA). Imaged on our Hitachi S-4800 SEM by Nima Khadem Mohtaram of Dr. Stephanie Willerth's Laboratory. To see previous front page images, see the Daily Galleries section.
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The Advanced Microscopy Facility is hosting the Microscopical Society of Canada Annual Meeting 2013 in Victoria from June 19-21, 2013. Contact us through the conference web site, or at msc2013info@gmail.com.
The STEHM assembly and commisioning has been completed, and signed off by UVic and Hitachi. There is still much work to be done, and much fine-tuning. As well, operator training has now begun.
Can you guess what these are?
SEM images Courtesy of Dr. Elaine Humphrey
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Pollen grains have unique structures which allow you to identify the species they belong to.
If you said lilly pollen, then you were correct!
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Did you guess zoea larva? This is the larva (called a zoea - pronounced zo-ee-a) of a true crab, found in the plankton of English Bay near Vancouver.
Installation and commissioning of the HF3300V STEHM is now completed, and has been signed-off by UVic & Hitachi. Operator training is next! Posted 12 days ago
The next SEM workshop will be in two sessions, May 8 & 9, from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Book online at http://t.co/oQziZgJVwf Posted 17 days ago
The next FIB workshop schedule has changed. It is now on May 14th and 15th. ^AS Posted 24 days ago
The next FIB workshop schedule has changed. It is now on May 7th and 8th. ^AS Posted 26 days ago
The next SEM workshop schedule has changed. It is now on April 30th and May 1st. ^AS Posted 26 days ago
