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Image Competition 2023
Congratulations to the winners the CBIA image competition 2023!
1st place: Natalie Prowse, from Dr Hayley lab (Carleton)- pCREB and GFAP expression in the mouse hippocampus
2nd place: Melanie Dugas, from Dr Beug lab (BMI-CHEO)- Cataclysmic Infiltrations
3rd place: Zoe Tasma, from Dr Ferguson lab (CMM)- Microglia meet astrocyte superSTARS
3rd place: John Cordova Albayay, from Dr Picketts (OHRI) - Mnemonic Spiral
A special thank you to the judges: Dr Trinkle-Mulcahy (uOttawa), Dr Saghatelyan (uOttawa), Dr Colarusso (CalgaryU) and Dr Chebli (McGill).
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What can uOttawa's core facilities do for you?
Core facilities are your collaborators who will never say no.
Watch the video produced by uOttawa's Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation (OVPRI).
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Need something to read? Check our useful links!
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A Monomeric StayGold (mStayGold) Fluorescent Protein: the monomer version we have been waiting for
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Creating Clear and Informative Image-based Figures for Scientific Publications
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Labelizer: systematic selection of protein residues for covalent fluorophore labeling
- Publishers Unite to Tackle Doctored Images in Research Papers and Check the Guide about Image Integrity
- Reproducibility
- Reproducibility and Metadata
- Sharper Signals: how machine learning is cleaning up microscopy images
- The Hunt for Red Fluorescent Proteins
- Tutorial: Guidance for Quantitative Confocal Microscopy
- When Antibodies Mislead: the Quest for Validation
- When Light Meets Biology - how the specimen affects quantitative microscopy
"Following Story" at FacMed devoted to CBIA core: "Not just a pretty picture"
Contact us
Cell Biology and Image Acquisition Core Facility
Faculty of Medicine
University of Ottawa
RGN 4206 & RGN 3111
451 Smyth Road
Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5
Who to contact?
Core Director
John W.R. Copeland, PhD
Phone: 613-562-5800 ext. 8641
Microscopy specialist Senior and Facility Manager
Chloë van Oostende-Triplet, PhD
Phone: 613-562-5800 ext. 8376