Recent News

NCMIR scientist selected to judge the annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

May 2007 —
Nikon Instruments Inc. has announced the judging panel for the 33rd International Small World Photomicrography Competition. The panel includes Thomas Deerinck, a Research Scientist at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research at UCSD. The other judges chosen by Nikon for this year’s competition include John Hart, an Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Professor at University of Colorado; Malcolm Ritter, AP Science Writer; Daniel Sieberg, Science & Technology correspondent for CBS News; and Nicole Dyer, Senior Editor at Popular Science. more



December 2006 —
strikingly colorful light microscopic image of mouse retina has earned first place for NCMIR scientist Thomas Deerinck in the 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition.  The quadruple-fluorescence confocal image, taken as part of a study on neurofibromatosis, shows the highly complex organization of some of the different cell types present in the retina. more



November 2006 —
Collaborators from the National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR), the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), the University of Illinois' Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), and NCMIR demonstrate how researchers at multiple locations can take advantage of advanced networks, software, and computational resources to extend the capabilities of bioscience instrumentation and informatics at the 2006 Super Computing Conference. more



October 16, 2006 —
NCMIR’s “Computational Oral and Speech Science on E-science Infrastructure” team will face off against other finalists in the SC06 High Performance Computing (HPC) Analytics Challenge, during a special session of the annual Super Computing Conference on November 14th.  SC06 is the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage. SC06 will be held November 11-17, 2006, in Tampa, Florida. more



September 2006 —
At the invitation of Japan’s Emperor Akihito, Mark Ellisman presented an overview of NCMIR’s research on multi-scale imaging and multi-scale modeling of the nervous system. Ellisman presented a multimedia poster and summarized research advances made possible by an alliance of leading researchers in biology and brain research, as well as advanced computing technologies. more


September 2006 —
Tiffany Moisan of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center at Wallops Island Virgina teamed up with NCMIR researchers to investigate the morphological changes associated with a marine alga, Phaeocystis antarctica, grown in light-limiting and high light environments. Their study, reported in the journal Marine Biology, presents the first 3D structures determined by electron tomography of an ecologically important phytoplankton species. more



August 2006 —
The Telescience™ Project started over a decade ago as an effort to make rare scientific instruments globally accessible. Researchers at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research began developing technologies to remotely control bio-imaging instruments over the Internet, and in 1992 the first system was demonstrated when attendees at a conference in Chicago interactively acquired and viewed images from one of NCMIR's intermediate voltage electron microscopes in San Diego. more



May 2006 —
Albert Lawrence and NCMIR colleagues from the Center for Research in Biological Systems (CRBS) recently published a technique to increase the resolution of electron microscope-derived tomograms. A major benefit of the mathematically sophisticated model is the ease of adapting the code for parallel computation. more


October 2005—
Cell biologists at UCSD’s National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) demonstrate the suitability of Quantum dots (QDs) for determining the specific location of endogenous proteins in cells and tissues—using correlated light and electron imaging techniques. more




July 2005—
In a collaboration between computational neuroscientists and neuroanatomists, researchers have created a 3-D, nano-scale “anatomically correct” neuronal synapse that provides new insights into the way synapses work. more




March 2005—
The Cell Centered Database (CCDB) was featured in the journal Science’s “NetWatch” column, which named the site as a novel way of making microscopic imaging data available to the science community... more








December 2004—
NCMIR’s “BioWall,” a newly designed 20-tile wall of high-resolution flat-panel displays that project massive, detailed 2D and 3D images of the brain, was featured in Bio-IT World this month.
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November 2004—
NCMIR microscopist Thomas Deerinck's image of a rat cerebellum won fifth place in the Olympus Bioscapes International Digital Imaging Competition. The image, a photomicrograph of a section of rat cerebellum, was achieved using Quantum Dot technology and multiphoton microscopy. more