Author: Gabriel Krens

The final installation of the Visitron iLAS2 is planned for Tuesday November 20 and Wednesday November 21. After complete integration of the system in the facility, we will start to provide introductions to the system. With kind regards, BIF

The installation of the LSM700inv BFB to LSM800#4 will start Monday Nov 19 at 8:30h. Please make sure all your data is copied to your fileserver!! BIF-team

the LSM700inv in BFB will be uopgrade to LSM800 in week 47  

Construction and Maintenance will need to perform the power checks in i04 / BFB tomorrow morning, November 6, 2018. For this, all the systems in i04/BFB will need to be switched off by 7 a.m. in the morning. For this we needed to cancel some of your slots and we will inform you as soon as the microscope is free again! We are sorry for the late communications (there was some miscommunication towards us as well)  and we hope for your understanding! best regards, BIF-team

The delivery and installation of the Visitron upgrade with iLAS2 system has been postponed to target week 46  (12-16 November 2018) . There was a delay in the arrival of the lasers and the camera: https://iof.pages.ist.ac.at/bif-events/

Dear all, we now found a solution to indicate the ‘importance’ of your slot and to promote communication about experimental details. However: you need to select ‘special environment 2’ before you can leave an comment.  Please use comment field to indicate: your planned duration of your booking (useful when you want to make a prolonged booking but the time did not free up) whether you are life imaging, or rather flexible due to fixed sample in case you booked since system was free anyways, next user can remove sample, etc,… Furthermore, the common agreement for bookings of confocal systems are Read More …

Please be aware the we will need to send I the camera of the dark box for a firmware update. This will happen on Friday October 19th and might take up to 6 weeks before it becomes available again. Please take this in account with the planning of your experiments!

Please be informed there is no CO2 available in LBE for the whole days on 23.20.2018 due to a planned ventilation maintenance: 23.10.2018 from 6:00am till 3:00pm Please your experiments accordingly (also overnight experiments!!). Many thanks for your cooperation.

In response to a constantly increasing number of non-booked usage and no-show events at our analysis workstations, we would like to inform you that from today onwards our workstations are equipped with a usage tracking application. In addition, we inactivated the local ‘imaris’ user profile and you can only use your IST credentials for login. Importantly, please don’t forget to log out from your personal account at the end of your booked slot. Reminder: you are obligated to cancel your bookings in PPMS & send out a SIFFY email as soon as you know that you will not use your session. This allows other users to make Read More …

Due to an off campus event, we can not provide service on Friday October 12th. please take this into account with the planning of your experiments