Seminar:

Automated Imaging Applications with the Molecular Devices IXM Confocal Imager

The ImageXpress Micro Confocal High Content Imaging system, available in Northwestern’s High Throughput Analysis Lab, is the ultimate combination of speed and flexibility in a turnkey solution to streamline your research and discovery workflow. Examples of high throughput screening in 3D cultures, organoids and whole organisms will be presented.

Come learn how the IXM Confocal can benefit your research needs!!

Event Details

Date: Dec 13th, 2016

Time: 10:30am-11:30am

Location: Searle Auditorium, Lurie Building

 Contact info:

Sara Fernandez

Northwestern University

s-fernandez@northwestern.edu

Seminar:

Automated Imaging Applications with the Molecular Devices IXM Confocal Imager

The ImageXpress Micro Confocal High Content Imaging system, available in Northwestern’s High Throughput Analysis Lab, is the ultimate combination of speed and flexibility in a turnkey solution to streamline your research and discovery workflow. Examples of high throughput screening in 3D cultures, organoids and whole organisms will be presented.

Come learn how the IXM Confocal can benefit your research needs!!

Event Details

Date: Dec 14th, 2016

Time: 10:30am-11:30am

Location: Pancoe Auditorium, Pancoe Building

 Contact info:

Sara Fernandez

Northwestern University

s-fernandez@northwestern.edu

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the latest Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) grant recipients.

Grand Challenges Explorations grant program funds discovery research, awarding initial grants of US $100,000 and potential follow-on grants of up to US $1 million. Grants target an expanding set of topics.

A total of 56 projects in 11 different countries received an initial grant of US$100,000. Dr Woodruff proposed to develop an ovulation model using cultured mouse ovarian follicles with hormones delivered by a series of microfluidic and microdynamic systems to produce a menstrual cycle over 28 days comparable to humans for high-throughput discovery of new contraceptives. In collaboration with NU-HTA, they will integrate robotic handling into their in vitro ovulation assay and validate it using known compounds that block ovulation.

EXPERTISE AND SERVICES TO ACCELERATE YOUR RESEARCH

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WHEN: Thursday, August 18, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM 

WHERE: Method Atrium – 310 E Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60611

The expo features 8 core facilities and 3 centers of excellence. Facility managers and staff will showcase their innovative biomedical expertise, research and services available to all researchers in greater Chicago. Learn how the centers and cores work together to advance potential therapeutics and diagnostics from the early stages of discovery through pre-clinical testing.

DISCOVER INSTRUMENTATION AND SERVICES TO ADVANCE YOUR RESEARCH

CLP CORE CRAWL
Thursday, July 14, 2016
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Silverman Hall, Evanston, IL

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Northwestern’s High Throughput Analysis Lab has upgraded their ImageXpress Micro High Content system to the ImageXpress Confocal system.  The new confocal capability lets you capture publication-grade images close to the speed of widefield screening, allowing you to work at the resolution appropriate for your biology, including whole organism, thick tissues, 3D spheroid assays, and cellular or intracellular events. The ImageXpress Confocal system is the first confocal high content system available at a core facility in the Chicagoland region.

After significant work and expense the Echo is back online.  Please be sure to reserve it well in advance as there’s likely to be a backlog of users.

The Tecan Fluent system has arrived at the HTA!

Special shout-out to the movers from Armstrong Relocation who did a fabulous job of getting the instrument into the tiny Hogan elevator on its way to the lab.

We’re assured that no warranties have been voided.

The Fluent is now fully operational, even after getting turned sideways in the elevator.

High Content Review highlighted Professor Donna Whitlon’s recent Scientific Reports publication in their current news. From their website: “High Content Review (HCR) is a website dedicated to the debriefing of the visionaries, innovators, and scientists leading the charge to define  phenotypic and high content screening and analysis.” The article, A New High Content Screen for Repairing Hearing Loss, features an interview with Dr Whitlon where she discusses her work, now published in the November issue of Scientific Reports.

The HTA has secured funding through an NIH S10 grant to purchase a new robotic liquid handling system.  Replacing the Biomek FX liquid handlers, the new Fluent is due to be installed in mid-November.