Fluid Preserved Arthropds
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Working Group Meetings
Meetings are held online at https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/invertimaging
- 14 January 2014, Noon-1:00 p.m. EST, Robin Delapena & Beka Baquiran, Imaging myriapod genitalia Meeting Recording
- 11 February 2014, Noon-1:00 p.m.Sandy Brantley, Imaging spiders Meeting Recording
- 18 March 2014, Noon-1 p.m., Brian Patrick, Imaging spiders Meeting Recording
- 15 April 2014, Noon-1:00 p.m., Gisela Canales, High speed and high resolution imaging with NanoZoomer Meeting Recording
- 13 May 2014, Noon-1:00 p.m., Colin Favret (University of Montreal), High-throughput Scanning for Microscopic Slides Meeting Recording
- 17 June 2014, Noon-1:00 p.m., Rob Meyer (Meyer Instruments), The Use of Scanners in Insect Photography Meeting Recording
- 16 September 2014, Noon-1:00 p.m., Gene Cooper, Graham Bird, Naomi Cooper (GIGAmacro ), High Quality Imaging of Biological Specimens Meeting Recording
- 15 October 2014, Noon-1:00 p.m. EDT, Rob Meyer and Scott Blakely, High resolution scanning of insects on microscopic slides.Meeting Recording
This meeting/webinar is a follow-up to a previous meeting (15 April 2014) featuring the Nanozoomer scanner by Hamamatsu. At the earlier webinar, Hamamatsu scanners were deemed to have limited use for the purposes of scanning microscopic slides of biological specimens due to their limited depth of field (approximately 100 um). Rob Meyer reports that these scanners have been tweaked and are now able to reach up to 2.0 mm depth of field, enough to scan most insects under a cover slip. Hamamatsu offers scanners that can accommodate multiple slides (6, 210 or 320) for fully automated XYZ scanning.
Fluid-preserved arthropod imaging and Microscopic Slide Workshopo Ann Arbor, MI, September 16-18, 2013)
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Image Sharing and Critique
Standard Views for Fluid-preserved Arthropods
Microscopic Slide Imaging
- Taxonomic value
- Capturing the organism
- Available slide-scanning technology