AIC at HHMI Janelia

You can appreciate a lot by looking – using the best microscope in the world – A day in the life of an AIC visitor

Posted by AnjaSchmidt, on 24 November 2025

In November 2024 a group from the Kevin Hamill lab (https://lantsandlaminins.com/) at the University of Liverpool (UK) visited the AIC for 3 weeks to image components of the basal cell membrane using interferometric PALM (iPALM). In this post, Kevin describes their visit and a typical imaging day.

Posted by aicjanelia, on 20 November 2025

In 2014, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus embarked on an experiment – creating a fully open-access imaging center to make Janelia-developed imaging technologies available to scientists across the globe at no cost. This blog series aims to give readers a glimpse into collaborating with the imaging center.

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