TLL microscope's manufacturers
Other microscope manufacturers
Online microscopy resources
Molecular Expression Microscopy Primer
Zeiss - Microscopy from the very beginning
Olympus - Microscopy Resource Centre
University of Buffalo confocal listserv archives and mailing list
Wikipedia's microscopy pages
Marvin Minsky, "Memoir on Inventing the Confocal Scanning Microscope"
A discussion of Digital Image Ethics from SWEHSC Cellular Imaging Core
Online spectral viewers
Invitrogen Molecular Probes - Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
BD Biosciences - Fluorescence Sprectrum Viewer
Olympus - Choosing Fluorophore Combinations for Confocal Microscopy
George McNamara & Carl Boswell: PubSpectra - a great resource for all things spectral Fluorescent Spectra: An Interactive Exploratory Database Spectral traces for fluorescent dye
Books
The library at TLL houses a collection of books on microscopy. We also have a wider collection of more up-to-date editions, contact Graham to arrange to borrow one.
Microscopy Societies
Zeiss LSM Image Browser
Leica LAS AF Lite (55 MB)
ImageJ (website) EMBL distribution (program + useful plugins) PerkinElmer ImageJ plugin collection ImageJ Manual (McMaster Biophotonics Facility)
VirtualDub for compressing *.avi files on a Windows machine
Irfanview Opens a large variety of image file formats
QuickTime Useful for playing movies
GIMP Open-source, free equivalent of Photoshop
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