News

New Funding oppertunity: 2015 Simmons' Awards

August 19, 2015

The Harvard Center for Biological Imaging is excited to announce a new funding opportunity for all Harvard Graduate students (G2-G5) for the 2015-2016 academic year. Thanks to a generous donation from Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Simmons, the HCBI will be offering...

Tissue Clearing Workshop 2015 has been announced!

August 10, 2015

For more info, click here!

Tissue clearing review published

July 16, 2015

HCBI Faculty Director Professor Jeff Lichtman and HCBI Director of Imaging Doug Richardson have published an in depth review on tissue clearing in today's issue of Cell. It is currently offered as a free download at cell.com! Also, check out this article...

Lunch and Learn is back!

September 11, 2019

Please click here to view this fall's lunch and learn schedule.

New macros for conversion of Lightsheet .CZI files to .TIF released

May 13, 2015

Now available on our Resources page: ImageJ/Fiji macros for converting lightsheet files to .TIF stacks for downstream processing. You can find the macro, along with instillation and use instructions for multiview/timelapse data here, or for tiling data...

HCBI wins Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award

July 17, 2014

In partnership with arivis AG and Carl Zeiss microscopy, the HCBI was awarded a 2014 Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award. Please read the official announcements here and here.

GPU based deconvolution now implemented at HCBI

June 25, 2014

As described by Preibisch et al. here, GPU based deconvolution is now available at the HCBI on Workstation #1.

Tiling now available on the Lightsheet

June 02, 2014

We now have a small app to assist with tiling on the Lightsheet. Talk to Doug for help.

HCBI referenced in Science article

May 02, 2014

Click here to read an article in Science discussing the ever expanding number of microscopy components available today. The article includes comments from the HCBI's Director of Imaging, Doug Richardson.

New tissue clearing methods published

December 10, 2015

A number of new tissue clearing methods for microscopy have recently been published. If you interested in imaging in MILLImeters and not MICROmeters, check out these many papers, then come talk to us! Whole Body CUBIC, iDISCO, iDISCO plus, PACT/PARS...

Latest Evergreen system replacement complete

December 01, 2013

Three new Evergreen Microscopes arrived in 2013: Axio Scan.Z1 high-throughput slide scanner, Lightsheet Z.1 for rapid 3D volume imaging, and the LSM 780 upright NLO for multi-photon deep tissue imaging. Email Doug Richardson to set up training on any one...

HCBI Lightsheet featured in BioOptics World

January 29, 2014

BioOptics World recently ran a feature on Lightsheet microscopy, include some feedback from the HCBI! Click here to read the article.