The primary mission of the Imaging Technology Group (ITG) is to provide state-of-the-art imaging facilities for researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and University of Illinois. This service mission is accomplished through two facilities: the Microscopy Suite and the Visualization Laboratory.

A secondary mission of the ITG is to develop advanced imaging technologies with an emphasis on projects in remote instrument control and scientific visualization.

A species of Arachnoidiscus, a centric diatom.

17 Nov 2009

The image is from a collection of images autonomously collected on a Philips XL-30 FEG at the Natural History Museum in London, England. This centric diatom is one of hundreds found after filtering an ocean water sample in the museum's collection. The name Arachnoidiscus comes from its resemblance to a spider's web. The images collected were used to build a Virtual Microscope specimen that is being used in an interactive exhibit in a new wing of the museum's Darwin Center. Sample courtesy of Dave Williams, Natural History Museum, London. Image by Chas Conway, Beckman Institute.

Image Courtesy: Chas Conway
Contact: cconway@illinois.edu

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ITG Creates Journal of Biophotonics Cover

The November 2009 edition of the Journal of Biophotonics features a cover created by ITG Staff Alex Jerez in the Visualization Laboratory. Jerez created the cover artwork to accompany the feature story "Imaging engineered tissues using structural and functional optical coherence tomography" by Xing Liang, Benedikt W. Graf, and Stephen A. Boppart of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Posted: 2009-10-29

Biophysical Journal Cover by ITG

The October 21, 2009 edition of the Biophysical Journal features a cover created by Olga Svinarski and ITG staff in the Visualization Laboratory. Staff members Alex Jerez and Zach Johnson collaborated with Svinarski, using 3D modeling and compositing techniques to make the final rendered image. The cover artwork accompanies a feature story titled "Common Structural Transitions in Explicit-Solvent Simulations of Villin Headpiece Folding" by Peter L. Freddolino and Klaus Schulten, both of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Posted: 2009-10-29

Analytical Chemistry Cover by ITG

ITG Staff Alex Jerez, Zach Johnson, and Eric Shoemaker collaborated to create the cover of the September 15, 2009 edition of the journal Analytical Chemistry in the Visualization Laboratory. The cover image depicts microfabricated electrodes and molecular interaction via functionalized particles and it accompanies the feature article by Sang Woo Lee of Yonsei University and Rashid Bashir of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, titled Dielectrophoretic Technique for Measurement of Chemical and Biological Interactions.

Posted: 2009-10-07

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