training

6 seed grants awarded

Posted on by Beverley Rabbitts
We are excited to announce the 6 winning proposals for seed funds:
  • Shaheen Sikandar, “Elucidating the role of vascular mimicry in breast cancer metastasis.” This project is lead by graduate student Isobel Fetter.
  • Vicki Auerbuch Stone, “Identifying inhibitors of the bacterial PAP I polyadenylase.” This project is led by graduate student Karen Hug.
  • Manel Camps, “Identification of bioactive compounds interfering with plasmid maintenance” – read more here. This project is led by graduate student Christina Egami.
  • Angela Brooks, “Investigating how [a gene of interest] alters stress granule response in HBECs.” This project is led by graduate student Cindy Liang.
  • Seth Rubin, “BMyb-MuvB inhibitor screen.” This project is led by graduate students Peter Ngoi and Nadia (Nadezhda) Dzhanbekova.
  • Ali Shariati, “Enhancing reprogramming  through a chemo-RNA approach.” This project is led by postdoctoral fellow Estefania Sanchez-Vasquez.

New events calendar

Posted on by Beverley Rabbitts

We now have a Google calendar for CSC events. It will have the most up to date information about any training, seminars, etc. being offered to users. We recommend that users subscribe to the CSC calendar (and its automatic alerts), as well as the CSC Google Space to get all the up-to-date information.

We’ve had several exciting events for users in the past few weeks:

  • A “lunch and learn” seminar with presentations by Beverley Rabbitts and Serena Chan from Perkin Elmer (the old flyer is below)
  • Phenix user trainings in person with Robert Graves from Perkin Elmer
  • Flex robot and PlateWorks training in person with Robert Graves from Perkin Elmer
  • EL406 user training in person with Deanna Leung from BioTek
  • Remote EnVision user training with Bill Ortiz from Perkin Elmer

flyer for 22 March 11:30am seminar on plate reader techs

The new Phenix imager is available to users!

Posted on by Beverley Rabbitts

Introducing our very exciting new acquisition: the Opera Phenix Plus confocal high content / high throughput microscope with 13 emission filter options, 4 excitation lasers, and a variety of objectives including 20x and 63x water objectives. We kicked off this new resource with two group training sessions on February 24, 2022 led by Robert Graves from Perkin Elmer. Please email Beverley Rabbitts if you want training and access.

Robert describing how the Phenix works to a group of 5 usersphoto of Robert showing a group of users how to use the Phenix