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First Contact

Send email to lichtmikroskopie.mtz@tu-dresden.de or contact us by phone +49 351 458 16426
Fill the Checklist for new user and bring or send it to us
We'll arrange a personal meeting for your first introduction and recommend which system fits well for your experiments

First Introduction	Second Introduction
Without your own sample , Estimated time: usually around 2hours	With own sample!!! , Estimated time: project dependent, usually around 3 hours (time for working alone)
Introduction to hardware: how to switch on/off. Introduction to software: how to properly acquire an image, z-stack, time series (it might sometimes not be possible to cover all of that in the 1st intro). How to clean objectives. Data handling: explain about original file formats and metadata; advantages/disadvantages of storing data on either hard drive or fileserver Data safety: Point out that the CFCI-Light Microscopy Facility holds no responsibility for data whatsoever!	Recap contents of first intro Introduce user to things that couldn't be covered in the first session Help user to set up the system for their own imaging experiment. Stay with user until he/she feels save to use the system independently. Invite user to contact the CFCI-Light Microscopy Facility about questions / problems / changes in their imaging projects at any time. Administrative issues (CFCI-Light Microscopy Facility Homepage, Scheduling Database, Mailing List, access to the room, payment and billing)

First Introduction

Second Introduction

Without your own sample , Estimated time: usually around 2hours

With own sample!!! , Estimated time: project dependent, usually around 3 hours (time for working alone)

Introduction to hardware: how to switch on/off.
Introduction to software: how to properly acquire an image, z-stack, time series (it might sometimes not be possible to cover all of that in the 1st intro).
How to clean objectives.
Data handling: explain about original file formats and metadata; advantages/disadvantages of storing data on either hard drive or fileserver
Data safety: Point out that the CFCI-Light Microscopy Facility holds no responsibility for data whatsoever!

Recap contents of first intro
Introduce user to things that couldn't be covered in the first session
Help user to set up the system for their own imaging experiment.
Stay with user until he/she feels save to use the system independently.
Invite user to contact the CFCI-Light Microscopy Facility about questions / problems / changes in their imaging projects at any time.
Administrative issues (CFCI-Light Microscopy Facility Homepage, Scheduling Database, Mailing List, access to the room, payment and billing)

Important: in order to keep the disk free for imaging - data older than 30 days will be deleted on automatically basis without warning.

User Rules & Safety regulations: laser safety, S1 safety, correct use of wastebins.