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Announcing the 1st Annual Combined AIM and LFD FLuorescence Advanced Imaging Research (FLAIR)
We are thrilled to announce the combining of two storied microscopy workshops: the UC Irvine Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics Advanced Fluorescence Imaging and Dynamics Workshop (LFD) and the UC Berkeley Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop (AIM) into the all new FLuorescence Advanced Imaging Research (FLAIR) Workshop. This first iteration of this workshop will be held in Irvine January […]
Welcome New Instrument!
The MIC is excited to announce the installation of our newest instrument, purchased via NIH S10 Award to Dr. Lin He, the Bruker TruLive 3D Imager. We have colloquially named it C-3PO. It is a light sheet microscope perfect for sensitive samples such as mouse embryo and developing c. elegans, drosophila or organoids. We hope […]
Announcing the 22nd Annual Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop, January 21-23, 2025
Early registration rates are open at https://aim2025.eventbrite.com/ AIM2025 is a 3-day event focused on new and emerging microscopy techniques and their applications to biological systems. AIM maintains a special focus on time-resolved techniques such as fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. AIM is hosted by the CRL Molecular Imaging Center at UC Berkeley. This workshop […]
Come to Advanced Imaging Methods January 23 – 25, 2024
We hope you can join us at our next AIM Workshop on campus this year! http://aim2024.eventbrite.com
AIM 2023 Back In Person!
We are so thrilled to be able to be back in person for our 20th Anniversary! That’s right, the 20th Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop will be held in Berkeley, California, January 24 – 26, 2023, at the beautiful new conference center at the Residence Inn by Marriott. https://aim2023.eventbrite.com/ We hope you can join us!
AIM 2021 Will be Virtual
Well, it’s been a crazy year, and while we dodged the Covid-issue for the most part last January, we will be hosting AIM completely online this year. Join us on the Hopin platform for AIM 2021, February 10 – 12, 2021: https://hopin.com/events/advanced-imaging-methods-workshop-2021#top
MIC COVID-19 Update
Please note that the Molecular Imaging Center is operating on a very minimal basis only for on-campus, essential research projects approved by the VCR’s office. If you would like to use the instruments, please forward your VCR approval letter to Director Aaron. More information here: https://live-cancer-research-lab.pantheon.berkeley.edu/mic-covid-19-regulations/ If you would like help or guidance with image […]
MIC Holiday Party to be in Barker Hall
The annual MIC Holiday/Calendar Contest Party will be held in 318 Barker Hall on Friday, December 14, 2:30 β 5P. Please come for food, drink, image contest awards, and to christen our new home in Barker Hall.
Former CRL Director Jim Allison wins Nobel Prize!
Jim Allison, the former UC Berkeley Cancer Research Laboratory director, has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine, shared with Tasuku Honjo, βfor their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.β You can read all about the history of this work done at Berkeley here. Also see the UC Berkeley News story for […]


