Welcome to LSI IMAGING @ UBC

LSI IMAGING is a core research imaging facility of the Life Sciences Institute with state-of-the-art fluorescence microscopy equipment. Microscopy equipment is located in proximity to expertise and access coordinated through a centralized website. Our goal is to facilitate access to equipment, promote the exchange of expertise and enable quality science.

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Events

  • June 10, 2022, The 18th D. Harold Copp Lecture: Emerging imaging technologies to study cell architecture, dynamics and function by Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz via Zoom (Registration required)
  • FOSI seminar on May 30th at 1:30pm in MSL Auditorium or Zoom (Hybrid): 3D modelling of peculiar cellular structures in the eukaryotic parasite genus Selenidium by Sam Livingston
  • FOSI seminar March 28th (Monday) at 1pm in LSC3 or Zoom (Hybrid): Full scale imaging techniques at LSI imaging Core Facility by Guang Gao
  • Feb-March 4 2022 Leica THUNDER Imager demo at LSI IMAGING, UBC
  • FOSI seminar Feb 28th at 3-3:30pm via Zoom
  • Nov 9-17 2021, LSI IMAGING Hosts ZEISS On Your Campus (ZOYC) Event ZEISS Elyra 7
  • October 29, 2021, Dr Jacky Goetz, “Forces shape tumor metastasis”
  • July 2021, EMBL Course Super-Resolution Microscopy: Time-Resolved STED Nanoscopy
  • April 27-29, 2021, Olympus Discovery Summit–Looking Forward: A New Era of Research
  • Dec 1, 2020, LSI Imaging: Future of BioImaging – Aivia Online Workshop

    • Publications

    The application of super resolution
    Arp2/3 complex-driven spatial patterning of the BCR enhances immune synapse formation, BCR signaling and cell activation

    Lipid transfer machinery is present at membrane contact sites associated with the internalization of junctions in Sertoli cells

    Reticulon and CLIMP-63 regulate nanodomain organization of peripheral ER tubules