Fried, Glenn

Core Facilities at the Institute for Genomic Biology

Fried, Glenn, Director, Core Facilities, Institute of Genomic Biology
Date: Tue 3 Nov 2009, 12:00PM
Location: Room 5602

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]

Virtual Scanning Electron Microscope: Using a $500,0000 Microscope for Free

Fried, Glenn, Director, ITG
Date: Tue 18 Nov 2003, Noon
Location: 3rd Floor Tower, 3269 Beckman

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]

Introduction to the Microscopy Suite

Fried, Glenn, Co-Director, ITG
Date: Tue 4 Feb 2003, Noon
Location: 3rd Floor Tower, 3269 Beckman

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]

Introduction to the Microscopy Suite's New Atomic Force Microscope Designed for Biological and Liquid Cell Experiments

Fried, Glenn, Director, ITG
Date: Tue 3 Dec 2002, Noon
Location: 3rd Floor Tower, 3269 Beckman

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]

Introduction to the Microscopy Suite

Fried, Glenn, Director, ITG
Date: Thu 17 Jan 2002, Noon
Location: 3rd Floor tower, 3269 Beckman

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.

Mi ... [more]

Atomic Force Microscopy as a Tool for the Investigation of Cellular Cytoplasmic Membrane Dynamics

Fried, Glenn, Scope Manager, ITG and Rubakhin, Stanislav, Post Doc. Research Associate, Neuronal Pattern Analysis Group, Beckman Institute
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2001, Noon
Location: 4th Floor tower, 4269 Beckman

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]

Introduction to the Microscopy Suite's New Multi Photon Confocal Microscope

Fried, Glenn, Scope Manager, ITG
Date: Thu 12 Apr 2001, Noon
Location: 4th Floor tower, 4269 Beckman

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]

An Overview of MCID and the Fluorescence Microscope in the Microscopy Suite

Fried, Glenn, ITG
Date: Thu 21 Sep 2000, Noon
Location: 4th Floor tower, 4269 Beckman

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]

Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscopy with a Near Field Scanning Optical Microscope

Fried, Glenn, Scope Manager, Beckman Institute
Date: Thu 2 Sep 1999, Noon

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]

Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy in the Microscopy Suite

Fried, Glenn, Post Doc., Microscopy Suite & Chemistry, Beckman Institute
Date: Thu 12 Nov 1998, Noon

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]