Important Announcement: Microscopy Suite Users

We have opened the Microscopy suite to our existing user base. For users who have already been trained, please read and acknowledge that you have read this notice before signing up for time: Microscopy Suite Covid 19 Safety SOP. (email speyton@illinois.edu) Presently we cannot train new users due to social distancing requirements. We are available, however, to prepare and image or collect spectra of samples you may bring to us.

Important Announcement: Vis Lab Users

Please see the Vis Lab safety plan for on site work at Beckman. The Vis Lab computers will remain REMOTE ONLY for the time being.

If you need to use the studio or any of the equipment in the Vis Lab studio (Room B0650G), please email speyton@illinois.edu acknowledging that you have read the below information. Additionally, please send along your certificate indicating that you have taken the DRS Covid-19 training found here: https://drs.illinois.edu/Page/COVID19CampusSafety.

ITG — The Imaging Technology Group

The Imaging Technology Group (ITG) provides sophisticated microscopy, spectroscopy, and visualization facilities (including macrophotography, ultra-high-speed imaging, and custom journal covers/figures), as well as a comprehensive list of 2D and 3D image analysis software packages. These services are available for researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, other universities, startups, and industry. The secondary mission of ITG is to develop advanced imaging technologies with an emphasis on projects in remote instrument control and novel types of scientific visualization.

While you are here, go check out Bugscope!

Bugscope is a free educational outreach program that allows educators to access the Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope in the Beckman Institute from a regular web browser over a standard broadband signal. Students all over the world can engage with the microscopic world of insects from the comfort of their classroom!