OPTIMA, the Optical Imaging Facility
at Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
The Microscopy and Imaging Systems are located on the eighth floor Research Area and also on the sixth floor of the Orde/Murray Research Site. There are 2 confocal microscope systems (one is 2-photon), 2 spinning-disk confocals, a deconvolution-based Deltavision system, 2 Optigrid structured illumination fluorescence and histology camera systems, and multiple other basic camera-based imaging systems. In addition to classical microscope-based imaging systems, OPTIMA operates automated high-content screening systems (one spinning-disk).
At the MSH eighth floor site, three staff members, Louise Brown, John Georgiou, and Sarang Kulkarni supervise the day-to-day operations. Four systems are housed in the 2010-PhaseI Imaging Suite located in Rm.871; the 2012-PhaseII expansion created our new main entrance via Rm.865, which houses an additional five microscope systems and four high-content screening imaging systems that are managed by Mikhail Bashkurov. The Microscopy and Imaging systems that are located at the Orde/Murray sixth floor Research Area are managed by Ryszard Bielecki. The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Operations division and the Imaging Committee, headed by Profs. Joe Culotti and Jim Dennis meet regularly to discuss various operational matters.
