Category: Cell Biology

Anna Akhmanova – Je moet de basis van het leven onderzoeken om tot nieuwe inzichten te komen

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Summerschool 2013 – Neuronal Circuit development and plasticity

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Testing Zeiss Spinning Disc system

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Testing Zeiss Spinning Disc system

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Sven Terclavers (Carl Zeiss) is explaining the interface of the Zen 2011-Blue software.

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The stopped spinning disc, imaged with                    Growing microtubule plus ends,
Rolera EM-C2 (1004 x 1002) EMCCD camera            visualized with EB3-GFP in … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Zeiss

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Zeiss

Zeiss company was founded by Carl Zeiss in Jena (Germany) in 1846. In 1866 physicist Ernst Abbe joined Zeiss and designed greatly improved lenses for the microscopes they were producing. Carl Zeiss together with Otto Schott and Ernst Abbe … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Wild Heerbrugg

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Wild Heerbrugg

The Wild Heerbrugg company was founded in 1921 in Switzerland by Heinrich Wild. Heinrich Wild (1877–1951) was a leading designer of geodetic and astronomical instruments. In 1908, having invented a military rangefinder and after convincing Zeiss to manufacture … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Reichert

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Reichert

The Reichert company was founded by Carl Reichert in 1876 in Vienna. Carl Reichert was a son in law of Ernst Leitz. He learned microscopy business from Leitz in Wetzlar (Germany) and then moved to Vienna to establish his … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Olympus

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Olympus

Olympus was established in 1919 by Mr. Takeshi Yamashita in Tokyo, Japan. From the very beginning, the company specialized in microscopes. The first corporate name was “Takachiho Seisakusho“. In Japanese mythology, it is said that eight million gods and … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Leitz

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Leitz

The history of Leitz (now Leica) has started in 1849, when the 23-year-old German mathematician Carl Kellner (1826-1855) established the “Optical Institute” in Wetzlar for the development of lenses and microscopes. Kellner had invented a new achromatic combination of … Read more

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