Helpful information and How to Guides

Adding Figures/Images to Word Documents

Microsoft Word is an entity on to its own and does crazy stuff...no more so when you try and insert an image into a document, only for Word to compress it to a blurry mess and then proceed to randomly move it upon every keystroke. There are no-sure fire solutions to this, but below is way to help improve things.…

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Big Boy Mask Pattern: How to guide

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Big Boy Mask How to Video

With the help of my designer wife we have made a pattern and how to video for making larger masks that are great for men and those with a bigger face. They are double layered with a pocket for a filter, with great chin coverage and a super comfy pliable fit around the nose. Hope this is helpful for everyone as we all try and get thru Covid-19.

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How to analyse single cells time-lapse movies using Fiji and/or Photoshop

In the following powerpoint tutorial I run through how you can use ImageJ/FIJI to import your raw microscopy image files and then analyse and track individual cells to generate single cell fate maps. Note, unless you are also planning on quantifying fluorescent intensity data in your movies, I strongly suggest converting all of your image files to high quality JPEGs…

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Using ImageJ to Measure Cell Fluorescence

Image J can be downloaded for free from here . This guide can also be downloaded as a complete PDF here: Measuring Cell Fluorescence using ImageJ Here is a very simple guide for determining the level of  fluorescence in a given region (e.g nucleus) Select the cell of interest using any of the drawing/selection tools (i.e. rectangle, circle, polygon or freeform) From the Analyze menu…

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2014 Garvan Cancer Division PhD Open Day, 10th September !

Are you interested in Cancer Research and want to do a PhD at the Garvan? Then come along to the open day and where you can meet with all the supervisors, discover some amazing projects, and get all the information you need to start your career in Cancer Research. Information Date: Wednesday 10th of September 2014 Time: 1.45-5pm Venue: The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan…

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ImpactStory: A new way to track individual article metrics

UPDATE: ImpactStory is not free, as I first thought, they currently have a 30 day free trail, then the cost is $45/year. Its clear that judging a researchers output purely on the impact/quality of the journal they do/don't publish is not always the best way to accurately judge individual achievement and output. To that end, article level metrics have recently…

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Immunofluorescence Guide

The Mitchison Lab has an excellent guide on staining and fixing cells for Actin and Microtubules which is worth reading [Link] Coverslips Most coverslips come with a fine film coating to stop them sticking to each other. This can reduce the ability of coating agents such as poly-L lysine from working properly, and can thus reduce the ability of cells to…

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