An overview of the new Beckman Imaging Technology Group (ITG) will be presented. This group is a result of a reorganization of the Beckman Institute Visualization Facilities into a more rational structure. The primary mission of the ITG will be to conti ... [more]

Ben Grosser will present a brief overview of the Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL). Topics will include the VMIL computer hardware, software and multimedia resources, how to become a user, costs of usage, and other resources available t ... [more]

This presentation will serve as an introduction to atomic force microscopy (AFM). The Digital Instruments Multimode AFM, available in the Beckman Institute's microscopy suite, is capable of performing a variety of functions. It can perform a wide range ... [more]

Analyze _AVW1.1 is a comprehensive, interactive package for multidimensional image visualization, processing, and analysis. Developed by the Mayo Clinic's Biomedical Imaging Resource group, Analyze _AVWworks particularly well in th ... [more]

Director is Macromedia's versatile multimedia authoring software that is ideal for creating web sites, kiosks, entertainment and educational CD-ROMS, simulations, visualizations and interactive presentations. It utilizes its own scripting language to pe ... [more]

This lecture will discuss the development and future of JavaScope, a Java based client facilitating semi-automated remote transmission electron microscopy. JavaScope utilizes the Internet to allow researchers to take control of the ITG's Transmission El ... [more]

The ITG is extremely well equipped with equipment and facilities for advanced light microscopic applications. Steve will describe the techniques available to users of the facility including confocal and conventional light microscopy, optical trapping, a ... [more]

The Microscopy suite in the Beckman Institute is an extremely well-equipped environment for sample preparation and their visualization on electron-microscopic level. This presentation covers the description of the available instruments and equipment for ... [more]

Topographical and intensity images, such as those taken from an AFM or NSOM typically code height or some other parameter as a grayscale or color value in a digital image. These images can then be used as-is, or converted to 3D surfaces when appropriate ... [more]

By using the various functions available from the Informix Dynamic Server, a new paradigm for image manipulation and management has come of age. This extensible technology allows organized storage of images and the processing data used to create/describ ... [more]

Chickscopeis a project to study chicken embryo development using a variety of educational resources, such as inquiry-based curriculum materials, interactive modules on egg mathematics, image processing ... [more]

The Imaging Technology Group is developing a system for automated identification of specimens and acquisition of high resolution images for 3D macromolecular electron microscopy. Our objective is to develop an intelligent microscope for the electron mic ... [more]

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a powerful tool for imaging sample Topography with sub-angstrom vertical resolution. In recent years, AFM Technology has expanded considerably. Imaging capabilities now include Magnetic and electric force microscopy. Mag ... [more]

Network and computer security has become a critical issue for researchers. Universities encourage an "open computing environment" for research and collaboration. With the resent upsurge in break-in attempts on campus, there is an increasing need to secu ... [more]

Materials characterization requires the gamut of experimental techniques available in the Microscopy Suite and Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory. This lecture will present step by step methodologies for structure determination and materials ch ... [more]

Magnetic resonance imaging is a modality that combines an established role in clinical diagnosis with a vigorous expansion in academic research. In medicine, routine anatomical scanning can detect gross pathologies such as tumors, chart the progress of ... [more]

The Leginon automated TEM system identifies targets in a low magnification image and then centers the targets to acquire high magnification images. The current method of centering targets is inaccurate and necessitates an additional time consuming step. ... [more]

The Integrated Support laboratory (ISL) is under development as a facility to provide a hardware and software integration framework for multi-modal interface development and controlled experimentation. Research in the ISL, building upon work of the Audi ... [more]

Applications programming in the technical paradise of the Beckman/NCSA virtual environment, and even with wholly overqualified and tirelessly dedicated collaborators, still is a challenging experience. A nano-length introduction will be followed by a sh ... [more]

Near field optical microscopy is a method of optically imaging surfaces on a nanometer scale. Background of the near field optical interactions at surfaces will be presented along with the capabilities of the instrumentation that is currently present in ... [more]

Beckman Institute System Services is pleased to announce a new poster printing service based upon the Tektronix Phaser 600 solid ink wide-format printer. The printer's features will be presented along with details of how to print to it from the Beckman ... [more]

Crumbs is a CAVE program which volume renders regularly sampled data, such as MRI, CAT, confocal, light microscopy, or computer simulations. Development of Crumbs began in 1994 and has continued since that date. Crumbs is an unusual VR application becau ... [more]

The VMIL's MicroScribe is a 3D digitizer that allows you to generate models of physical objects by touching the object's surface features with a stylus. It can digitize objects on the order of a few millimeters to a meter and larger in size with an accu ... [more]

Liz is the assistant to Sheree Kirby who is responsible for the development and growth of the TCL program, which is a business incubation facility that houses an entrepreneurial program that also supports business assistance services. The TCL services i ... [more]

Pulsed force mode microscopy (PFM) is a new mode of atomic force microscopy that allows the effects of adhesion and stiffness to be separated and recorded simultaneously with topography. It combines the advantages of the speed of contact mode with addit ... [more]

The basics of what is an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM), how does it compare/contrast to a conventional SEM, and how it can be used will be the focus of this forum. A brief introduction to the technology will be a preface to an open d ... [more]

Versatile stereolithography (SLA) technology is used for rapid concept modeling and can deliver finished prototypes with extreme accuracy and Robustness. A SLA-250 rapid prototyping machine is located on campus and can be used to produce a variety of so ... [more]

Harry will be talking about the High Performance Storage System, popularly known as HPSS. HPSS is software for managing very large data archives and for transferring data at high data rates within a hierarchy of disks and tapes. HPSS was developed joint ... [more]

It is a rare case nowadays that qualitative or descriptional data are so obvious that they can "prove" experimental biological findings. Instead more and more often quantitative analysis of changes in cells/tissue is required. The Microscopy Suite in th ... [more]

Optical tweezers are a very useful tool for cell manipulation. They are non-invasive, do not damage cells, and are quite easy to use. This talk will focus on the background of optical tweezers, the theory of operation of the optical tweezers, and previo ... [more]

The Visualization Toolkit, is a set of libraries containing a wide array of algorithms from the fields of 3D Graphics and Image Processing. The focus on Object Oriented design makes this toolkit easy to use and integrate into powerful 3D graphics applic ... [more]

Bugscope is a new educational project in the World Wide Laboratory at the Beckman Institute. Participating classrooms have the opportunity to control an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope to image insects at high magnification. Students and teac ... [more]

This lecture will delve into the importance of having proper etiquette on the elevators while teaching you the skills necessary to function in an appropriate manner on these elevators and those found in the outside world. The special guest speaker will ... [more]

Our story begins in the distant geologic past, the pages of which lie deep beneath the intersection of Wright Street and University Avenue. It is a story of volcanism, subsidence, shallow seas, swamps, uplifts, and massive ice sheets. The first human fo ... [more]

Using two-photon excitation, the volume explored by the laser beam can be made extremely small, below a fL. In this volume, given the normal concentration of fluorophores found in biological preparation, the number of fluorescent molecules is small. Flu ... [more]

This talk will discuss the increased importance of intellectual capital in the formation and development of a technology-based, start-up company. I will focus on various legal and corporate issues regarding patent protection and their relationship to te ... [more]

irma (Interactive Remote Microscopy Application) is a new software system for web-based remote control of a Philips XL30 ESEM-FEG. irma consists of three primary applications, the irma|ESEM Image Observer, the irma|ESEM Scope Controller, and irma|Server ... [more]

Researchers in the Neuronal Patterns Analysis group at Beckman Institute are working with Janet Sinn-Hanlon of the Imaging Technologies Group to reconstruct a digital 3-D atlas of the rabbit brain from serial histology sections. The 3-D digital atlas wi ... [more]

A feature of the new environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) that we have not emphasized to date is its capability for performing elemental analysis using energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). EDS (also called EDX, or EDXA, for energy-dispersi ... [more]

Much current knowledge about brain function is based on analyses of the firing patterns of neurons. This field is experiencing an explosion of data. Huge data sets are being amassed with new computer-based data acquisition systems and techniques for rec ... [more]

Molecular microscopy is one of the most important structural approaches in cell biological investigations and can provide insight into complex biological questions that no other technique can provide. Currently, the technique typically requires the acqu ... [more]

There is a great deal of emphasis on the quantitation of cells/targets in biological research today. This need for numerical representation of experimental effects is limited by the labor intensive procedures required to achieve these numbers. The MCID ... [more]

This forum is also available as Technical Report 99-011 available here.

We have developed a method to improve the accuracy for absolute relocation of a target specimen using the goniometer on a Philips transmission electron microscope. We have achieved this by characterizing the performance of the Philips compustage, modeli ... [more]

The Integrated Systems Laboratory (ISL) is a concept which grew out of the ARL Federated Labs project. The idea is to have a research facility for integrating newly developed technology to create a full application. Human studies can then be performed t ... [more]

This week's forum will be a presentation of the Electronic Theatre (ET) Program from SIGGRAPH '99. The ET is often considered *the* showcase for computer animation from the last year. This year's presentation...features a broad, international selection ... [more]

A collection mode near field scanning optical microscope was used to detect surface plasmons on thin gold films patterned with phthalocyanine. The intensity of the surface plasmons was modified by the addition of a self-assembled monolayer. These intens ... [more]

This forum will delve into the history of flatbed scanners. Allen will discuss the differences between XY Zoom technology and XY stitch. He will also explain how Scitex scanners differ from one another and why you should use the Scitex Eversmart Supreme ... [more]

Several pieces of auxiliary equipment have been added to the environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) since its installation in January of this year. Some of them, such as the insect rotating device ('bug-on-a-spit'), were fabricated here in th ... [more]

Bruce Johns will discuss the current approaches to high-resolution projector design with emphasis on the digital micromirror device (DMD) used in Digital Projection's ultra-high brightness (12000 ANSI lumens), high-resolution (1600x1200), Emmy Award win ... [more]

This discussion will address some of the issues our group had porting Unix code to an NT system. Topics will include sockets, serial ports, system logging, byte order problems, as well as a few other inconsistencies between operating systems, and how we ... [more]

In the investigation of structural and cellular differences between groups, you often have to tell if one group is different than another by more quantitative methods than just "eyeballing" it. The subtle alterations between groups are often only eviden ... [more]

Ben Grosser will present a brief overview of the Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL). Topics will include the VMIL computer hardware, software and multimedia resources, how to become a user, costs of usage, and other resources available t ... [more]

Identification and classification of objects based on their 2D images is of an interest for many applications ranging from microscopic cells Characterization to military target recognition. Often such identification is based on the analysis of the objec ... [more]

The Atomic Force Microscope is being used in an increasing number of applications to study polymer materials. Using tapping mode AFM, one can go beyond high resolution surface profiling to study local properties, sample composition and underlying surfac ... [more]

The formal attempts at representing, in fine-granularity detail, the full-text of journal articles, books, technical reports, etc. have involved the use of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). SGML provides a standard markup mechanism to expose ... [more]

Cluster-based parallel computing offers a cost effective means of achieving high performance on many compute intensive programs used in science. There are many issues to consider when designing a cluster for high performance scientific computation inclu ... [more]

Microstructural and stress evolution during drying of tape-cast layers derived from binary (Al2O3-Latex) colloidal suspensions were studied. Representative tapes were partially dried, quenched, and the remaining solvent extracted via sublimation to asse ... [more]

The Hexapod Project is a multidisciplinary research effort being conducted here at the Beckman Institute. It involves the development of a six-legged robot modeled after the skeletal and muscular structure of insects. Insights from insect neurobiology a ... [more]

In this brief presentation, I'll discuss basic issues in image acquisition and analysis of the human brain as people think. Difficulties in the collecting and processing of functional MRI data in younger and older subjects will be discussed. Differences ... [more]

SETI@home is a scientific experiment based at the University of California-Berkeley that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Anyone can participate by runni ... [more]

The IntelPlay QX3 Microscope may give school science labs an alternative to conventional microscopes. Despite its price tag of $99 it performs in some respects like the multi-thousand dollar ITG dissecting microscope. The features of the QX3 microscope ... [more]

Modern and ancient microbes preserved in travertine are being genetically identified and directly linked with the terrestrial hot spring environments in which they lived using a depositional facies model incorporating aqueous and solid phases. The Mammo ... [more]

Bridget Carragher will present a brief overview of the Microscopy Suite. The Microscopy Suite houses a wide range of instruments including a number of varieties of light microscopes, scanning probe microscopes and both scanning and transmission electron ... [more]

Scanning electron microscopy traditionally produces two dimensional, grayscale images of the specimen at hand. While these images are often visually beautiful and highly detailed, the visual cues derived from the image can be enhanced by adding color an ... [more]

This forum will include a partial review of deformable methods for automated segmentation and analysis of human brain images with an emphasis on the current research at the Beckman Institute in this area. The current research involves a deformable templ ... [more]

The ITG has a new piece of equipment available - the Stratasys Genisys Xs 3-Dimensional printer. This technology greatly enhances the visualization aspect of research and is a great addtition to the VMIL facility. This forum will present technical detai ... [more]

A small team at the UIUC College of medicine has developed an interactive web site that teaches histology (microanatomy) to medical students. Several hallmarks of the "Internet Atlas of Histology" include 1) the ability to navigate through microscopic s ... [more]

This talk will provide an overview of the applications and the use of the Macbeth TR-1224 densitometer. The densitometer is available for use in the Visualization, Media, and Imaging Laboratory and can measure both reflection and transmission photograph ... [more]

This overview describes resources and services offered by the library in support of research at Beckman. The overview explains the basics of how to find a book in the online catalog and check it out from the library. The specifics of how to request book ... [more]

The Beckman Microscopy Suite has two dedicated darkrooms available for processing film and prints. We have recently upgraded the darkrooms, adding a new print processor and a second enlarger. This forum will detail the present capabilities of the darkro ... [more]

The Argus project aims to create a parallel computer that can capture real-time data from a number of cameras and then use those multiple views to compute 3D reconstructions of the scene. The scene is captured from an array of 64 cameras equally spaced ... [more]

Tunneling spectroscopy measurements of the density of states in superconductors provide insight into the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity and the nature of superconducting interfaces. High temperature superconductors are strongly anisotro ... [more]

HDF5 is a whole new version of HDF designed to support scientific data storage, sharing, and access in high performance environments. This forum will have a brief overview of the HDF format and software, describe how HDF5 is useful for storing and acces ... [more]

This forum will focus mainly on the problem of the landmark selection and visual based control for the navigation of a mobile robot, with an emphasis on the current research at the Beckman Institute in this area. Many approaches in visual servoing and m ... [more]

An effective collaboratory allows geographically-distant researchers to interact and work on their computers as though they were together. This concept is being realized in the field of structural biology by the BioCoRE project. BioCoRE recently had its ... [more]

Cryoelectron microscopy has the potential to allow direct visualization of macromolecular arrangements in very large assemblies and intact cells. This talk will describe recent progress of our group's development of automated data collection techniques ... [more]

One aspect of future nanotechnology might be the development of hybrid systems that merge molecular electronics with silicon IC technology. To this end we are exploring the fundamental limits of single molecule interactions with Si(100). We have modifie ... [more]

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Typical stereoscopic hardware installations rely on StereoGraphics "CrystalEyes" technology. Unfortunately, the hardware can cost as much as a WindowsNT workstation. This forum will evaluate some alternative, inexpensive stereoscopic solutions for Windo ... [more]

The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign has undertaken a research park initiative to encourage research, development and commercialization of the University's intellectual assets, and to foster economic growth. It is anticipated that the Universi ... [more]

Linda Brown, will present a basic introduction on the Leica SP2 Single and Multi-Photon Confocal microscope systems. Recent innovations and a discussion on frequently asked questions will be included. Also, a brief introduction to some applications incl ... [more]

DVD, a technology that continues to expand its user base, offers people a versatile communications medium. It can deliver high-quality audio and video, or serve as a high-capacity data backup solution. In addition to its more traditional roles, it allow ... [more]

Cryo electron microscopy provides a flexible tool for quantitatively visualizing biological specimens. When applied to viruses, the resulting images have been computationally combined to yield 3D reconstructions at resolutions up to 7 or 8 Angstroms. He ... [more]

This fall, the ISL at the Beckman Institute will be building aLICE: a fully enclosed, 6-sided, 10'x10'x10' back projected virtual reality environment. Features of aLICE include rigid walls, wireless interaction devices, and imbedded camera and microphon ... [more]

Beckman Institute faculty, staff and guests often have the need for a variety of presentation and conferencing technologies. In order to support these needs, a proposal was made to develop a multimedia/video conferencing 'theatre'. Although not yet comp ... [more]

Virtual reality often involves presenting several simultaneous graphics displays, like the right-eye/left-eye of an HMD or the four walls of a CAVE. Trying to drive all these displays from a single computer and still achieve high performance results in ... [more]

For several years we have been developing a software application, called Leginon, for the automated control and acquisition of images from a transmission electron microscope. One of the primary motivations in developing this software is to provide for a ... [more]

Bugscope is a second generation educational project that provides web browser based control of scientific imaging instrumentation using the Internet. The primary goal of the Bugscope project is to demonstrate that relatively low cost, sustainable access ... [more]

This week's forum will be a presentation of the Electronic Theatre (ET) Program from SIGGRAPH 2000. The ET is often considered *the* showcase for computer animation from the last year. This year's presentation "... features a broad, international select ... [more]

Ben Grosser will present a brief overview of the Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL). Topics will include the VMIL computer hardware, software and multimedia resources, how to become a user, costs of usage, and other resources available t ... [more]

Beginning in the Fall 2000 semester, we will investigate how learner comprehension of a selected food chemistry topic is affected by the form of instructional media in which the topic is depicted. Specifically, we will compare how FSHN 101 students (n = ... [more]

The quixotic enterprise announced in the title is both frustrating and feasible. It might even be useful for opening cross-platform channels for CAVE developers not blessed with SGIs. In particular, consumer grade (but proprietary) liquid crystal stereo ... [more]

MCID is a microscope control and image analysis package used with the fluorescence scope housed in the microscopy suite. By allowing software control automatic image tiling, image deconvolution and area counting are archived. Calibrating the computer co ... [more]

The VMIL has added a new digital video camcorder to the list of video equipment. The Canon XL1 Digital Video Camcorder combines the mini DV format with the mini DV interchangeable lens system. This compact camcorder is extremely versatile, allowing the ... [more]

This forum will present how to taken an AFM image and turn it into a 3D model in order to see a better representation of the AFM data using Alias Wavefront's Maya. We will explain how to produce the 3D image manually and also by using a MEL script progr ... [more]

Historically, Electron Microscopy has played an enormous role in defining the ultrastructure of the cell. Our mental picture of almost every cellular organelle is heavily influenced by what has been seen in using thin section EM. Over the last 25 years, ... [more]

Now you can create high-quality video easily and affordably. Final Cut Pro is the only software in its class that combines professional editing, compositing, and special effects capabilities in one flexible and highly productive program. By giving you t ... [more]

For several years we have been developing a software application,called Leginon, for the automated control and acquisition of images from a transmission electron microscope. One of the primary motivations in developing this software is to provide for a ... [more]

The ATAM Program is an interdisciplinary unit that conducts research and teaching in the field of archaeometry--the intersection of archaeology and art history with the natural and physical sciences. We use modern instrumental techniques to investigate ... [more]

The Stereology Workstation in the Microscopy Suite at the Beckman Institute runs on two basic programs -- StereoInvestigator and Neurolucida -- that are both products of the small New England company MicroBrightfield. Both programs are well designed, an ... [more]

AAA ATPases are small ATPases, which play central roles in various cellular activities. Despite their importance, the precise mechanism by which these motor molecules utilize nucleotide to carry out their functions is not known. We studied the nucleotid ... [more]

Many of Brent Collins' sculptures have interesting rotational symmetries, and saddle-shaped surfaces (like a soap film or minimal surface). His 1998 sculpture "Atomic Flower II" consists of a central disk (perhaps representing a nucleus) with three loop ... [more]

The WebCT 3.1 "course management" system enables instructors to create content and manage online teaching activities, while relying only on a web browser. One of the benefits of WebCT is its flexibility, allowing instructors to choose from a wide variet ... [more]

Condor is a distributed computing system that allows users to distribute their workload over the network to otherwise idle computing resources. Condor allows any network user to access available processing power and memory from any other workstations or ... [more]

The Microscopy Suite is one of the two primary service facilities supported by the Imaging Technology Group. A wide range of imaging modalities and supporting equipment is available for the preparation, imaging and analysis of microscopic specimens.

Since carbon nanotubes were observed by S. Ijima in 1991, they have captured the attention of researchers worldwide. Because of their remarkable properties, carbon nanotubes have been proposed for use as nanowires, electronic devices, probes for scannin ... [more]

The VMIL has recently added hardware and software that provides the capability to produce fully-featured DVD-Video titles. This system, whose primary components are by Sonic, Inc., includes real-time MPEG-2 encoding hardware, authoring and proofing soft ... [more]

Advances in imaging technology are rapidly being integrated into the fields of biology and medicine. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality based on the detection of backscattered near-infrared light from tissue. O ... [more]

Lawrence J. Hamlin is working on developing creative working relationships with new and developing artists who have begun to establish a desirable print market. He works with painters, photographers and sculptors to bring out a publishable work of art i ... [more]

3D face modeling is an important component for model-based video coding, human computer interaction, entertainment and etc. Cyberscanner provides an effective solution for producing 3D object model because of the high accuracy in recovering geometry and ... [more]

NCSA's Emerge project has been developing technologies to address the problems associated with the ongoing explosion of distributed, heterogeneous scientific data archives. Our point of departure is a set of proxy and broker components for building fede ... [more]

Often, in analysis of biological specimens under the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), the 2-dimensional images acquired provide only a partial picture of the intricate cellular morphology. This is particularly true in the case of nervous tissue, ... [more]

For the positioning and scanning of our Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), it is necessary to have a piezo-electric material free of defects. It is this delicate material which provides angstrom magnitude motion of the tip assembly. A significant issu ... [more]

A state-of-the-art multi photon confocal microscope was installed in the Microscopy Suite of the Beckman Institute in March. The Leica Confocal has proved extremely popular with the 20 users that have been trained. This forum will cover the basics of co ... [more]

UIUC policies require that all research with human subjects be reviewed and approved before any involvement of participants. Federal funding agencies will also require that review occur prior to release of project funds to the investigator. Although the ... [more]

Design based stereology is the statistical methodology by which morphologic parameters of three-dimensional structures can be estimated from sequences of two-dimensional images in a precise and unbiased manner. StereoInvestigator software available for ... [more]

Come tour the nearly completed Beckman CUBE, the next generation CAVE, using technology invented at the UIC, perfected at the UIUC, constructed by TAN in Dusseldorf Germany and sent over on a slow boat back home. We will be showing off the hardware, but ... [more]

A need for a low-cost, high through-put technique for method development and optimization for liquid chromatography prompted the invention of the Profiler. Chromax Chromatography Solutions was then founded to develop and commercialize the apparatus and ... [more]

For the past two years, the Imaging Technology group has been operating a remote instrument educational outreach project called Bugscope. Bugscope provides access to an environmental scanning electron microscope for K-12 classrooms. However, the data ha ... [more]

The LightScribe 3D is a scanner that generates high-quality fully-textured 3D models of physical objects. The scanner uses a video camera along with a frame grabber card to capture texture data while wireframe data is acquired using a hand held laser st ... [more]

This talk will cover the design and implementation of two novel cameras developed in the Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory. The Omnicam systems produce images with a wide field of view and are able to capture all objects in focus regardless of the ... [more]

Thermosetting polymers, used in a wide variety of applications ranging from microelectronics to composite airplane wings, are susceptible to damage in the form of cracking. Often these cracks form deep within the structure where detection is difficult a ... [more]

Cryo-electron microscopy is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for solving the structure of protein complexes and has the potential to address problems that cannot be solved using other methods. The field however suffers from several major disadvant ... [more]

A plethora of physiological processes inside of a single cell result in the generation of mechanical forces responsible for the development of many fundamental events such as cell division and migration, neuronal process growth, exocytosis and endocytos ... [more]

Since the foundation for the three-dimensional image reconstruction of helical objects from electron micrographs was laid more than 30 years ago, there have been sustained developments in specimen preparation, data acquisition, image analysis, and inter ... [more]

We are attempting to create a new class of cell-like objects by modifying pH-sensitive hydrogels at the surface with lipid layers. However, the characterization of the assembled lipid layers is extremely difficult since the 3-dimensional hydrogel scaffo ... [more]

In order to decrease the amount of time involved in Cryo-TEM, automation techniques can be used to remove human interaction. Using a robot to prepare the specimen and insert it into the microscope, it is conceivable to eliminate the manual labor necessa ... [more]

Professor Cox will present several recent projects with the American Museum of Natural History, Hayden Planetarium, and PBS Nova HDTV. She has worked with Robert Patterson and Stuart Levy at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to visuali ... [more]

Several different methods are available for collecting information from samples using the environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM). While the microscope is operated at high vacuum, like a regular SEM, we can collect two types of electrons that ... [more]

This week's forum will be a presentation of the Electronic Theatre (ET) Program from SIGGRAPH 2001. The ET is often considered *the* showcase for computer animation from the last year. This year's presentation ".. ... [more]

Microfluidic devices show a promising role in chemical and biochemical sensing, molecular separations, drug delivery and other forefront technologies in recent years. Incorporation of nanoporous membranes with microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) allo ... [more]

The Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL) is a Beckman Institute facility dedicated to providing BI researchers with state-of-the-art imaging, visualization, and analysis capabilities. Its resources can support a wide variety of projects, i ... [more]

Dr. Sever Tipeiwill explain a formal way of looking at the world of sound which allows for a unified approach to sound synthesis, music composition, and sonification.

The VMIL recently purchased two new digital cameras: the Canon G1 and the Nikon Coolpix995. Both are 3.34 Megapixel, have auto and manual focus features and offer 2048x1536 resolution. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish strengths and shortcomings of ei ... [more]

Three-dimensional (3D) photonic bandgap (PBG) materials have recently generated great interest for their potential for photonic applications. 3D PBG structures have been postulated as the basis of low-loss waveguides, optical cavities, zero-threshold mi ... [more]

On the Job Consulting is a tech company based in downtown Urbana which started three years ago to employ artists and activists with high-paying part-time work. Staff make decisions by consensus, decide how many hours they want to work, regularly review ... [more]

Our lab investigates the deficits in memory exhibited in patients with profound memory impairments (i.e. amnesics). More specifically, I study the extent to which amnesics are impaired in their abilities to learn novel visual scenes. I have recently beg ... [more]

The amount of data generated on computers around the world doubles every year. Enormous databases exceeding 1 terabyte are common occurrence, especially at places dealing with image acquisition and image processing. Medical imaging is the area where nee ... [more]

The architectural design process has throughout the ages begun with a conceptual idea sketched on a two-dimensional surface. But sketching on a 2-D surface provides a fundamental contradiction, for designs intended to be experienced in three dimensions ... [more]

The purpose of this forum is to introduce some techniques for extracting three-dimensional models from data produced by the confocal microscope in the Microscopy Suite, then producing "hard copies" of these models on the Genisys XS three-dimensional pri ... [more]

Recent advances in high throughput genome technologies have paved the way for detailed and accelerated analysis of the genomes and gene functions from large numbers of organisms. The W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics was initiated ... [more]

UIUC was an early leader in the 1980s in putting in place a ubiquitous campus telecommunications environment. As for other early adopters, the campus developed its infrastructure in fits and starts both centrally and in the colleges, as the community at ... [more]

Please join Ben Schaeffer, Camille Goudeseune and Hank Kaczmarski for a discussion of the underlying technology involved in the TAN-constructed, ISL-implemented, Beckman CUBE, a virtual reality chamber unequalled in the world. We'll talk about the hardw ... [more]

2D in-vitro neuronal networks permit neuronal activity to be measured with an array of microelectrodes and network morphology to be visualized by light microscopy. The ability to characterize 2D networks in detail enables comparisons between experimenta ... [more]

The Microscopy Suite provides high end imaging resources to the Beckman Institute and the University research community. ITG personnel identify instrumentation needs, obtain funding, purchase equipment, train users and maintain instrumentation.

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In this talk, some recent advances in the area of content-based image retrieval will be discussed. In particular, small sample learning algorithm for relevance feedback; structural features for image content representation; and the unification of keywor ... [more]

Although laser scanning microscopy has only relatively recently become a practical solution for many researchers, the theory and technology behind these instruments represents the fruits of several decades of multi-disciplinary research. Confocal and mu ... [more]

The HP DesignJet 5000 PSis a high quality Thermal Inkjet printer which is available for wide format color poster printing at the Beckman Institute. This printer is part of the Beckman Ins ... [more]

Over the past few years, the Office of Technology Management has been challenged to keep pace with the overwhelming amount of research and development that occurs on the UIUC campus. As of such, the University and campus administration have recently pro ... [more]

The Imaging Technology Group is active in the development of customized software tools that enable visualization of scientific data. A segment of these tools focus on the advantages gained by combining this data with high-quality 3D modeling, animation ... [more]

As adults, we routinely use the syntactic structure of a sentence to compute its meaning. In "John hits Bill," the position of John and Bill in the sentence tells us which is the guilty party and which the victim. Some of my research asks what aspects o ... [more]

For my research I'd like to be able to track the positions of individual molecules as they diffuse over time. One possibility for this is using Beckman's Leica confocal microscope to image the motion of dye molecules. This requires exciting the molecule ... [more]

The Beckman Institute Systems Services group is currently implementing wireless networking throughout the Institute. Issues to be discussed are: project status, security, usage, and implementation. Systems Services provides computing, printing and netwo ... [more]

Interactive systems, from Java applets to virtual reality, benefit from sound. Sound reminds users of current state, acknowledges actions they take, and alerts them to unexpected events. This presentation covers both the mechanics and the aesthetics of ... [more]

I will review our progress using multibeam holography to create photonic crystals. These are materials which have periodic variations in the dielectric constant with wavelength comparable to visible or near infrared light. Our plans are to use 2-photon ... [more]

This week's forum will be a presentation of the Electronic Theatre (ET) Program from SIGGRAPH 2002. The ET is often considered *the* showcase for computer animation from the last year. This year's presentation ".. ... [more]

The design considerations of the PerkinElmer Instruments Spectrum Spotlight 300 Chemical Imaging System include the novel use of detector array technology and rapid scan interferometry to provide quick, high quality infrared images. Sophisticated softwa ... [more]

Don Hamermanis a freelance photographer based in Connecticut, and the publisher of the photo book, Insight: University of Illinois.Don has been photographing on the U ... [more]

The Inquiry projectbased in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science is building an array of tools to support inquiry-based learning in schools, universities, museums, libraries, community centers ... [more]

Transmission electron microscopes (TEM) can be rendered as the eyes of materials researchers since they see through the specimens and provide evidence of the deformation mechanisms. So far, TEM studies have been only qualitative in nature because it is ... [more]

The Biomedical Imaging Centeris the newest member of the Beckman family.

Located at 2100 S. Goodwin Avenue, the Center provides facilities, equipment, and training for research on nuclear magnetic reso ... [more]

In multiphoton microscopy, the excitation rate depends approximately inversely on the input pulse duration, and lasers for multiphoton work typically operate with pulses in the 60 to 200 femtosecond range. Ultra-short optical pulses have an inherently l ... [more]

SmithGroupMidwest, the architecture firm that designed the Beckman Institute, will be presenting the results of their study into the needs of scientific research in the future. Its Solution Group Director of Res ... [more]

By using appearance prototypes early in the product development cycle, design, along with mechanical engineers can receive critical feedback early in the design process. In the same way that conventional desktop printers provide computer users with a pa ... [more]

Molecular organization of microsomal drug metabolizing enzymes, cytochrome P450s, and formation of heteromeric complexes with P450 reductase have been mostly studied with the isolated proteins and using reconstituted systems. These studies suggested the ... [more]

Produce-related outbreaks have increased drastically over the past twenty years. Shigella boydii18 was isolated from a 1999 Chicago area foodborne outbreak involving contaminated bean salad that contained fresh parsley and cilantro. Cilantro and ... [more]

The Beckman Institute Library opened in 1989 as part of a service to help Beckman Institute personnel in their research efforts. The mission of the library is to serve all research faculty, staff, in the pursuit of interdisciplinary scientific research. ... [more]

The Microscopy Suite's new Digital Instruments Bioscope, consists of a liquid tight AFM scanning head mounted above the sample and an inverted microscope under the sample. This combination provides a robust instrument for AFM measurements of biological ... [more]

Technology users often need or want large, high-resolution displays that exceed possible or practical limits on bandwidth and/or computation resources. In reality, however, much of the information that is generated and transmitted in such displays is wa ... [more]

Intravenous encapsulated microbubble contrast agents are an established clinical tool for enhancing medical diagnostic imaging using ultrasound (US) and have been used experimentally in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research. This presentation will f ... [more]

The Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL) is a Beckman Institute facility dedicated to providing BI researchers with state-of-the-art imaging, visualization, and analysis capabilities. Its resources can support a wide variety of projects, i ... [more]

The Microscopy Suite provides high end imaging resources to the Beckman Institute and the University research community. ITG personnel identify instrumentation needs, obtained funding, purchase equipment, train users and maintain instrumentation. The Mi ... [more]

Focused Ion Beam (FIB) techniques are now used in various device processes and FIB etching and deposition have become indispensable in such fields as failure analysis, mask repair and transmission electron microscopy sample preparation. FIB techniques h ... [more]

John Parks, Director of University of Illinois Research Park and EnterpriseWorks @ Illinois will give a brief talk about the University's seamless system of resources available to research faculty and staff interested in forming a company.

This < ... [more]

This talk will consider two applications: free-field virtual reality audio in the Beckman CAVE virtual reality theater, and free-field speech recognition in a car. In both cases, the problem is the uncontrollability of the environment. The objective of ... [more]

Fashioned from fake brick paneling, faux marble pattern-printed foam sheets and paneling embossed to look like bleached floorboarding, Pokorny's assemblages evoke vaguely architectural fragments that are punctuated by bulbous amalgams of cast organic fo ... [more]

The Bugscope project, an educational outreach program for K-12 classrooms, provides an opportunity for students and teachers to remotely operate a scanning electron microscope to image bugs at high magnification.

Beyond the educational outreach op ... [more]

Yu's interests include filmmaking, Arts & Technology projects, and world-wide computer education. Yu will talk about and present several of her recent works, including: "Argus: Connecting the World Through Real-Time 3D Communications" and "Hummingbird" ... [more]

The ITG's Cyberscanner is a tool for acquiring three-dimensional surfaces of medium-sized objects, in particular and especially the human head. An overview of the Cyberscanner and its capabilities and limitations will be discussed, followed by a short t ... [more]

The past year has involved much experimentation with my work. During the previous twelve years I have focused on glass. Since my time at the University of Illinois I have explored the use of many materials. I have been searching for media with similar q ... [more]

Search is one of the most popular activities on the internet, and is only becoming more so as the web grows in both size and popularity. In this talk I'll discuss how we do search at Google; the issues involved in making a good search engine; the hardwa ... [more]

Conrad Bakker is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design and has been teaching at the University of Illinois since 2001. He received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996. He has exhibited his work most recently at Fargf ... [more]

Luke Batten and Jon Sadler are New Catalogue, a conceptually driven stock photo agency devoted to producing original editions exploring contemporary issues including, but not limited to, architecture, landscape, culture, and design. New Catalogue survey ... [more]

With continuing additions of electronic full-text journals and reference resources, Linda Ackerson will show how the Library is moving ever closer to allowing faculty and students to work in a totally online environment. She will also demonstrate the si ... [more]

The Office of Technology Management is responsible for managing Intellectual Property generated by research at UIUC. This presentation provides a brief overview of the work that the OTM does on behalf of faculty, staff and students, including evaluating ... [more]

The computer requirements in the Imaging Technology Group range from small workstations to multi-processor fileservers. Alex will summarize these systems and address common questions about them. Questions answered will include: What are they made of? Wh ... [more]

Those looking to capture the highest-quality digital images in the lab or in the field should attend this forum on the Canon 1Ds digital SLR. Capable of capturing everything from the extremely small to the very far, whether in bright light or the dark o ... [more]

Onscreen spinning 3-D models commonly viewed in advanced Geographic Information System (GIS) software can now be transformed into physical terrain models you can hold in your hand and view from all angles. These models are created using 3D Analyst GIS s ... [more]

Artists often employ highly accurate and efficient devices in the production of inaccurate, unverifiable, mute or clumsy objects. Especially in art of the last 100 years, the same technologies celebrated for their "super-human" capacities have been redu ... [more]

In addition to general consulting within its facilities, the Imaging Technology Group at the Beckman Institute provides a variety of special services, including graphic design for posters and brochures, medical and scientific illustration for print or e ... [more]

The ITG recently acquired a Z Corporation Z406 Color 3D printer and are now making it available to all registered ITG users. This presentation will cover the features of the Z406, how it compares to our previous rapid prototyping device, and how it can ... [more]

Asphalt concrete used in pavements is a composite of asphalt binder, crushed aggregate, and air voids. In order to study the microstructure of asphalt concrete, image processing and analysis techniques are very essential since image analysis has the adv ... [more]

Currently the Imaging Technology Group's Bugscope project is reaching an average of one K-12 classroom each week during the school year. In order to allow more students to have the opportunity to experience operating a scanning electron microscope the I ... [more]

The Eyetronics Shapecam is a portable device for scanning faces, bodies, or larger objects using structured light. Using the scanner, a researcher can scan objects either in the laboratory or in the field. The system is composed of a high resolution dig ... [more]

Restoration Microscopy is a conservative systematic approach to image restoration using optimized image collection and deconvolution. An image observed through the microscope is a result of the target object convolved by a blurring function. Restoration ... [more]

The Imaging Technology Group provides researchers with the ability to image microscopic samples, analyze the data, and prepare it for publication or presentation. These services are divided into the Microscopy Suite, and the Visualization Media and Imag ... [more]

When implant materials are studied, traditional tissue evaluation does not always sufficiently describe implant-tissue interaction. Therefore, alternative methods such as SEM and micro-CT, which are relatively quick and easy in comparison to histologica ... [more]

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are increasingly being used across the spectrum of human endeavor, but first generation GAs are notoriously fickle. Sometimes they work well, and sometimes they fail miserably, and researchers have been hard pressed to predict w ... [more]

The Department of Bioengineering was approved in December 2003 as a regular department within the College of Engineering. It will commence B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree programs this fall. This talk will be an overview of the plans to build the departmen ... [more]

Allison Clark's talk will provide a description of the newly formed HASTAC and its activities. HASTAC (pronounced "Haystack"), the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, is a consortium, of humanists, artists, social s ... [more]

Dr. Umesh Thakkar, a senior research scientist at NCSA and Beckman Institute and a visiting faculty member in GSLIS, is on leave from the University to serve as a program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF, http://www.nsf.gov). ITG has inv ... [more]

A plethora of physiological processes inside a single cell result in the generation of mechanical forces responsible for fundamental events such as cell division and migration, the growth of neuronal processes, exocytoses and endocytoses, and axonal tra ... [more]

Computer Tomography is one of the primary non invasive means for examining the internal structure of the human body, is widely used for nondestructive evaluation in manufacturing, and more recently for airport baggage security. The reconstruction proble ... [more]

Optical diffraction of 3-D photonic crystals formed by self-assembly of monodisperse colloids is a long-known phenomenon that is now a topic of increasing research focus. Using colloidal crystals as removable templates, functionalized mesostructured hyd ... [more]

Cynthia Pipkin-Doyle, Solo Artist, combines dance, theatre, and video in her research and work. Cynthia's interests are in the history of dance and theatre, for intimate arenas of women's expression, and for the collaboration of theatrical endeavor. She ... [more]

Accurately and consistently managing color between input, monitor, and output devices can be tricky. Various techniques are in common practice by amateurs and professionals, including guessing, and "eyeing it." The preferable method is a simple, repeata ... [more]

This talk will present an overview of our recent and ongoing research on 3D computer vision and related topics including Image acquisition, 3D estimation and Applications.

With help from a 2004 grant from the Open Society Institute, local engineers will build a testbed for wireless community networking in Champaign-Urbana. This spring, they begin to program both an IP routing protocol and a name service for "rooftop wirel ... [more]

While Adobe Photoshop can be used for an infinite variety of image creation, processing, and analysis tasks, this program's strength is built on the foundation of its strong selection tools. Rarely does one want to affect an entire image with any partic ... [more]

The lowly pixel has been gradually yielding ground to the n-dimensional hypervolume as a fundamental unit of spatial/temporal relationships on the microscale. Higher order coordinate systems such as slices and tiles have relatively recently become part ... [more]

This week's forum will be a presentation of works from the Electronic Theater program from SIGGRAPH 2004. The Electronic Theater is generally considered the primary showcase for the year's best computer animation. This year's presentation features "...t ... [more]

The rise of the Internet as a convenient source of information has been accompanied by the rise of email as a convenient means of communication. Unfortunately this convenience is being abused by those sending spam and writing viruses. I will describe ou ... [more]

Poster sessions have become a vital avenue for presenting active research at conferences in an engaging, personal manner. Creating a poster that communicates research results effectively should be the presenter's primary concern, not how to get the post ... [more]

In this talk, we introduce a new method to generalize the well-known Principal Component Analysis. We will show via some preliminary results why this leads to a new and promising framework for image segmentation, representation, and compression.

FEMLAB is a finite element software package used to model applications in all fields of engineering and science. Optionally integrated with MATLAB, it is used to model coupled systems of nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. FEMLAB is equation-based ... [more]

In the field of plastic electronics, researchers have to deal with mechanically flexible materials. Predicting accurately the distortions in these materials subject to mechanical stresses, electromagnetic fields, thermal expansion or chemical shrinkage ... [more]

A century ago Stereo 3-D images were commonplace in education from elementary through medical school. Stereo images were produced by researchers in fields as diverse as geology and architecture. The art of stereo photography is alive but rarely seen tod ... [more]

A brief summary of how IP created at UIUC is evaluated, protected, marketed and licensed and what's in it for you! The process, procedure and philosophy of protection will be covered in this informal presentation. There will be ample opportunity to ask ... [more]

Micro-CT is a nondestructive technique in which the measured attenuation coefficient is used for 3D imaging with micron-scale resolution. Typically, x-rays are used to image "hard" materials. However, many biomaterials are composites of hard and soft ti ... [more]

Three dimensional (3D) micro-periodic structures may find widespread potential application as photonic materials, sensors, fluidic networks, and tissue engineering scaffolds. We recently developed a polyelectrolyte ink for the direct-write assembly of 3 ... [more]

There are a number of acquisition methods for live and fixed-cell imaging. Mr. Bolwell will be discussing these methods and subsequent ways for visualizing, quanitfying, tracking, presenting and charting of the obtained data.

A hydrogen passivated Si(100)-2x1 surface is studied using both ultrafast and continuous wave laser excitation with a novel total internal reflection geometry. The incoherent tip and sample heating dynamics are studied. It is shown that as long as the S ... [more]

This talk will present an historical perspective on the role of science policy and structure in the United States by examining the post WWII period and identifying a few trends and discontinuities to the present day. Science policy and structure in the ... [more]

Dr. Umesh Thakkar, a Senior Research Scientist at NCSA and Beckman Institute, will give an overview on proposal writing tips for the NSF ESIE (Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education) programs for the benefit of the University and the Champaign-Ur ... [more]

Although best-known for producing medical images and molecular structure elucidation, magnetic resonance has a wealth of other applications in biology, engineering and materials science. This seminar will give a very rapid overview of many of these appl ... [more]

Bugscope is an educational outreach project that provides real-time, web-based access to ITG's Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) so that children across the world can look at bugs. Allowing school kids, teachers, and teacher educators to ... [more]

In vivo imaging of transgenic mice or engineered cells tagged with light-emitting probes, such as firefly luciferase or fluorescent proteins, is a powerful technology enabling a wide range of biological studies in research animals. The ability to monito ... [more]

VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large datasets associated with atomic-scale computer simulations of proteins, DNA, and nanodevices. This talk will provide an overview of the visualization capabilities of ... [more]

Amira is a 3D visualization and volume modeling system designed for scientific 3D data sets from various areas such as engineering, biology, medicine and microscopy. Amira allows the user to gain detailed insight into data sets obtained from CT, MRI, ul ... [more]

Rose Marshack, computer scientist, professional musician, martial arts instructor and aspiring digital artist talks about what it's been like to move from Computer Science to Art + Design and back again. Rose graduated with an undergrad degree in Comput ... [more]

The mission of the new Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is to advance life science research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and to stimulate bio-economic development in the state of Illinois. The near-term objective of the IGB is to ... [more]

The supraorbital region of the skull, and the browridge in particular, has played a crucial role in studies of fossil hominin taxonomy and sexual dimorphism. Differences in browridge morphology and development are often used in human evolutionary studie ... [more]

Although the web page styling mechanism of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has existed since 1994, its use had been limited before the last few years. Now a growing segment of the web design population uses this powerful tool to add visual styling to web p ... [more]

Amira is a recent aquisition by the VMIL. It is an image processing software designed to quantitate and visualize 3d data sets, such as CT, MR, confocal and microscopic data. Amira's interactive 4-panel display and variety of segmentation tools allow si ... [more]

Maya is a high end 3D animation that has been used for many years in the movie industry. In recent years, Maya users have found new ways of extending the use of this software in order to develop animations in the areas of Architecture, Engineering, Medi ... [more]

The human tongue plays a principal role in speech, swallowing, and respiration. It is mainly composed of muscles, which have complex bundle arrangement and interdigitation among them. The knowledge of three-dimensional muscle architecture is critical fo ... [more]

The market for digital single lens reflex (digital SLR) cameras has grown substantially as consumer-level models break below the $1000 level and professional photographers move completely away from film. A digital SLR camera can be an indispensable tool ... [more]

A brief summary of how IP created at UIUC is evaluated, protected, marketed and licensed and what's in it for you! The process, procedure and philosophy of protection will be covered in this informal presentation. There will be ample opportunity to ask ... [more]

A quick comparison and tutorial on current multimedia authoring programs, focusing on Macromedia Director, which allows you to create standalone interactive applications for Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems as well as web-deliverables. Many of th ... [more]

The velopharynx consists of several muscles and structures that collectively contribute to velopharyngeal movement. Most studies to date have used two-dimensional data to image and study the velopharyngeal mechanism, consequently at times oversimplifyin ... [more]

Biocompatible and biodegradable microvascular networks, with controlled porosity in three dimensions, offer promising potential as tissue scaffolds. Key issues include manufacturing techniques and material decomposition rates. This forum will present wo ... [more]

DISSCO (Digital Instrument for Sound Synthesis and Composition) represents a unified and comprehensive approach to sound synthesis and composition - unified in the sense that its components share a common formal approach and use similar tools, comprehen ... [more]

Joy Monice Malnar, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, will discuss her new book Sensory Design. Malnar begins with the question, "What if we designed for all of our senses?" Suppose for a moment that sound, touch, and odor were treated as the ... [more]

The SkyScan 1172 Micro-CT system installed in the ITG earlier this year has proven to be a valuable research tool for acquiring and analyzing three dimensional microscopic data. Since its introduction the presenters have developed a toolbox of tips, tec ... [more]

Pixologic's Zbrush is a powerful software application designed to help digital artists and graphics designers by providing painting and modeling tools that can either be used on their own or in conjunction with animation programs such as Maya. Zbrush is ... [more]

9th Letter exists in two related but distinct forms: a magazine published twice a year, and a website ( www.ninthletter.com) that features new content on a continual basis. The intent is to position 9th Letter ... [more]

Longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) comprise one of the largest families of insects, including many economically and ecologically important species. Management of pest species can be difficult because of the cryptic habits of larvae and adults ... [more]

The broad challenge faced by our Center is to capture the capabilities of biological membranes in nanoscale devices. Biological membranes generate electrical and chemical signals, generate electrical power, do osmotic pumping, and transduce energy from ... [more]

The development of scaled models is a vital component to the architectural design process, permitting architects to work through spatial ideas and design concepts. Utilization of 3D computer modeling in combination with rapid prototyping technology can ... [more]

Krannert Art Museum preserves, documents, and interprets the art collections it holds in public trust for present and future generations. The Museum functions as a center of aesthetic enjoyment and intellectual inquiry for the University of Illinois com ... [more]

The bone replacement in severely injured patients is usually a challenging task for surgeons. The use of custom designed artificial implants is made possible by the new advances in the field of tissue engineering. Our work is focused on providing automa ... [more]

OPENSOURCE is a collaboratively-run alternative art space in downtown Champaign that accommodates a variety of non-traditional, community-oriented art projects and events. Using their current location as a home base, the OPENSOURCE group hosts and suppo ... [more]

How are social relations and identities formed, developed, maintained, and reproduced? It's a deep question, indeed, and one which may not ever be answered definitively. One key part of answering the question, however, is an understanding of the spaces ... [more]

Interpreting behavior in extinct primates requires detailed understanding of the relationships between various aspects of bone shape and the behaviors that influence them. Traditional approaches to understanding the functional aspects of locomotor morph ... [more]

Five senior undergraduates from the Photography Program will give a presentation on artwork utilizing traditional and digital imaging. In the last five years imaging technology advances have created a multidisciplinary approach to art making within the ... [more]

In this talk, I will present a method for acquiring high-fidelity solid models of complex 3D shapes from standard cameras. The approach enforces both the photometric and geometric constraints associated with available image data using a simple iterative ... [more]

Professor Hart will address the impact of eBooks on civilization, from their humble beginnings in 1971 to modern times, and will do his best to predict their future and future effects on society. Comparing Project Gutenberg to The Gutenberg Press, he pr ... [more]

Simulations in Virtual Worlds are advancing our ability to teach in online environments. This presentation will discuss how simulations and virtual worlds can be used for research and practice. Results from a study using simulations will be discussed as ... [more]

From the moment we wake up to the moment we fall asleep, we use and negotiate hundreds of products, from the alarm clock to the coffee machine. Industrial Design, a field historically concerned with designing these objects, is engaged in a new focus: th ... [more]

A brief summary of how IP created at UIUC is evaluated, protected, marketed and licensed and what's in it for you! The process, procedure and philosophy of protection will be covered in this informal presentation. There will be ample opportunity to ask ... [more]

Three dimensional photonic bandgap materials have been proposed as the basis of many devices, the majority of which rely on the incorporation of defects to provide functionality. We introduced and demonstrated the use of two-photon polymerization for th ... [more]

Young children appear to quickly acquire basic syntactic facts about their native languages. For example, even 18-month-old English-learners use word order to understand transitive sentences containing familiar verbs. But what kind of knowledge permits ... [more]

The flood of new hardware, software and networking resources continues apace. The design space and the opportunity spaces that we might explore can seem dauntingly big and constantly changing as new technologies tip and distort cost-benefit calculations ... [more]

The use of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) to quantify new bone formation within a bony defect will be presented. The effects of two drug delivery systems on the bone healing within a calvarial defect (d=8mm) were investigated. The skulls of 36 New ... [more]

Semprius has developed an advanced semiconductor etching and printing technology that enables the fabrication of high performance distributed electronic systems on a variety of substrates including glass, flexible and rigid plastic, and silicon wafers a ... [more]

Over the past year the Beckman ITG Microscopy Suite has updated the fluorescent microscope system, adding two new cameras and streamlined acquisition software. We will review the new system and its capabilities. Anyone currently using the fluorescent mi ... [more]

A child born with a cleft palate may undergo multiple surgeries to restore anatomy and regain muscle function. In numerous cases, even after surgical intervention to repair the cleft palate, normal sounding speech may not be restored due to improper sur ... [more]

From the early anatomical studies of the brain arose the dogma that new neurons are not added to the adult brain or in other words "You were born with all the brain cells you will ever have". Over the past 100 years this has remained the predominant bel ... [more]

Mammary gland tissue undergoes dramatic structural and functional changes in direct association with its physiological state. While mammary tissue has been explored extensively at the histological and infrastructural levels, our understanding of the 3-D ... [more]

The Imaging Technology Group's Virtual Microscope project provides an application platform for viewing, visualizing, and analyzing high-resolution, multi-dimensional image datasets from light, electron, and scanned probe microscopes. Useful for educatio ... [more]

This project looks at developing a novel way of electrochemical nanopatterning performed under ambient conditions. Silver sulfide is made into patterning tools with calibration features of various lateral dimensions to perform negative pattern transfer, ... [more]

DeBruijn proposed two methods for realizing quasicrystals as projections of sub-lattices of the 6D unit lattice into 3-space. A 3D packing by 2 kinds of rhombohedra is quasicrystalline if it displays icosahedral symmetry locally, but is aperiodic global ... [more]

This talk will explore the meaning of privacy in a legal sense, especially the privacy torts including intrusion into seclusion, publication of private facts, and misappropriation. As technology becomes more commonplace, how are courts responding to the ... [more]

A thorough knowledge of structural and chemical properties is essential for the fields of nanotechnology and materials science, leading to a growing demand for characterization methods for heterogeneous systems on the nanometer scale. However, certain p ... [more]

We are using trap-jaw ants to identify general design principles for generating, storing and releasing large amounts of force using small, simple materials. The comparative nature of this system allows for the examination of multiple, independent origin ... [more]

Bone growth into a scaffold could significantly alter the elastic properties of the resulting composite as compared to the original scaffold. Thus, predicting the composite properties will help to optimize scaffold design for bone tissue engineering. Co ... [more]

The Biomedical Imaging Center (BIC) is a unit of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Center traces its heritage to the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory founded at UIUC ... [more]

This is an introduction to the Scanning Probe Microscopic resources (Multimode AFM, Extended BioScope and Near-field Scanning Optical Microscope) in the microscopy suite of the Imaging Technology Group (ITG). This forum will introduce principles of Near ... [more]

ALBA combines a confocal scanning microscope with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and FLIM (fluorescence lifetime imaging) measurement capabilities. ALBA allows at any point of the image to acquire molecular dynamics data - autocorrelation f ... [more]

Maya, Photoshop and Illustrator are common software tools used by ITG staff to produce images that illustrate the research done by the Beckman Institute and other University of Illinois researchers. Unique approaches are often required to showcase the s ... [more]

Computer animation that vividly portrays sequences of events that are increasingly used as persuasive tools in the American legal system. Computer animation may clarify fast-unfolding events, such as traffic accidents, but they may also exacerbate hinds ... [more]

Microscopic evaluation of tissue plays an integral part in the assessment and staging of breast cancer. However the time-consuming nature of histological analysis prohibits real-time assessment of large volumes of tissue, for example during the time fra ... [more]

The Microscopy Suite, on the basement level of the Beckman Institute, is in constant flux as we acquire new instruments, retire or re-fit older instruments, reconfigure our space, and respond to the needs of our user base. This includes knowing what opt ... [more]

For centuries, light microscopy has been the dominant tool for studying cell biology. In the late 1800's, Abbe formulated the resolution limitation of the light microscope to approximately half the light wavelength, or 200-300 nanometers. Remarkably, in ... [more]

The Illinois Simulator Laboratory, formerly named the Integrated Systems Lab, formerly located in the basement of the main Beckman Institute building, is relocating to the Beckman South facility at 2100 South Goodwin. What hasn't changed is the ISL's c ... [more]

Recent advances in optical imaging and diagnostic technologies now enable high-resolution, non-invasive, label-free imaging and characterization of in vivo skin, as well as in vitro and grafted engineered skin. This presentation will review several sta ... [more]

Magnetic resonance imaging provides several contrast mechanisms to examine structural and functional properties of the brain, axon bundles, and muscles involved in the neuromuscular system. Many of these modalities are used independently to assess diffe ... [more]

Beckman Symposium - No Forum

The ultrasonic backscatter coefficient (BSC) is the fundamental quantitative estimate from measurements that can be parameterized to yield the effective scatterer diameter and effective acoustic concentration. The ability to accurately estimate the BSC ... [more]

State-of-the-art graphics processing units (GPUs) contain hundreds of processing units and are able to perform trillions of floating point arithmetic operations per second. The newly available computational power brought by GPUs is enabling a new gener ... [more]

Glen Fried's forum "Core Facilities at the Institute for Genomic Biology" is canceled for today and has been rescheduled for next Tuesday, Nov 3.

The two year old core facilities at the Institute for Genomic Biology host a selection of state of the art optical microscopes, Bioanalytical instrumentation, Plant growth chambers and a micro-fabrication facility. In addition to instrumentation the mi ... [more]

Transcatheter and percutaneous liver-directed approaches are widely used for the treatment of liver tumors. These therapies include transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE), radioembolization, and percutaneous ablation. Intra-procedural imaging g ... [more]