Former Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility

The Hooker Microscopy Facility is located in the UNC School of Medicine

mhmf.org

At the University of North Carolina

Notices

CF Center desktop firewall is being enabled on Thursday March 19, 2015 at 7:00 to 8:00 AM

SOM Firewall changes - March 12, 2015
  • The web servers and file storage servers have been moved behind the SOM CF Firewall at ~10 AM on Thursday, March 12, 2015
  • Affected:
    • Microscope booking calendars
    • http://microscopy.unc.edu  http://mhmicroscopy.med.unc.edu
    • http://confocal.org  http://mhmf.org
    • \\MINSKY  \\minsky.med.unc.edu
    • MHmicroscopy domain
    • and others......
  • Note that any mappings on your computers directly to i.p. numbers of the servers will no longer work since the i.p. numbers have changed.
  • The Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility shut down on July 31, 2014 under instructions from iBGS and the Office of Research
  • Please use your existing  MHmicroscopy credentials for logging onto remaining workstations, booking and access to the file server \\minsky.med.unc.edu
  • Remaining resources will be moved to various other locations
  • Users who want to use the Olympus Fluoview in NRB should contact Michael.  
  • The upright Nikon with high resolution color camera is available: Hooke system - Upright Nikon fluorescence microscope with color CCD camera - This system is running again.  Hardware has been repaired.
  • Upright Nikon 80i for fluorescence and transmitted light is available - medium resolution color camera & low resolution color camera are availbale TB room 6024.  Contact Michael in order to discuss access.
  • Members of the Cystic Fibrosis Center and Alcohol Center and Stan Lemon lab. are welcome to (and should) ask Michael for assistance.
  • \\minsky the file server is available.  All may ask Michael for assistance about passwords and access.  The current plan is to shut down \\minsky for legacy MHMF users in August of 2016.  Until then your data is available.  CF-Center, Bowles Center Alcohol Studies will continue to have access to \\Minsky past \Aug 2016.  Gene Therapy Center data will also be preserved.
  • Computer workstation \\Schott is in room 7208 Marsico Hall.  \\Brewster will be available in 7208 Marsico Hall late Jan 2016.
  • It feels like lemons are being converted into marmalade. Hopefully we will get the resource to lemonade eventually.  
    Lemon marmalade
    (c) 2014  Much thanks to Karen Stone for this image.
     

The Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility was a research microscopy facility located in the Thurston Bowles building at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Mike to bike month

Information for new and current users - Users from the CF Center, Alcohol Studies Center and Stan Lemon lab. are welcome.

What's New / Changed

 

What's Down / Scheduled Maintenance - details
  • Leica SP2 has been decommissioned
  • \\Marvin, \\Hooke are no longer on the campus network and have joined a private network.
  • An inverted fluorescence scope system is currently being assembled
Pictures
   
Up coming courses/seminars concerning microscopy and imaging

 

 
Location
  • Thurston Bowles room 6024
  • Marsico Hall rooms 7228a, 7228b, 7001b
Contacting MHMF
  • Michael 919-912-9380  voice/text 
Booking Time on a Resource   [frames]
 
Resources

 

Widefield Microscopes
Confocal Microscopes
  • Laser Scanning, Olympus FV1000
  • Laser Scanning, Leica SP2 AOBS - Decommissioned
  • Laser Scanning, Olympus FV500 provisioned by the Kesimer lab. - 7228a Marsico Hall  
Other
Computing & Image Processing
Sample preparation, cover slips, test samples, chambers, calibration, slides, clearing agents, etc. 
Fluorophore references (3rd party information)  Spectra
Books and articles on microscopy and imaging
Publications

 Director / Webmaster Michael 

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