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The only interference that I am aware of is with newer cordless telephones that work in the 2.5GHz range. If you plan to use a cordless phone in the lab, go for the older 900MHz ones.
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From: Vasseur Monique [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Net Wireless antenna interferences?
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> Hi all,
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>
> I don't know much about net connections and communication technologies. In
> our department, there is a project of installing a 10 megabyte antenna
> and/or a relay in the microscopy room or a few meters from it, so that
> students can connect their laptop to the local net without the need of cable
> connection. This is probably a stupid question but I am wondering if this
> is generating a kind of waves that could interfere with the output of CCD
> cameras. Any comments are welcome.
>
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> Monique Vasseur
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> Microscopie et imagerie
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> Département de biochimie
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> Université de Montréal
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> De : Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] De la
> part de Bill Miller
> Envoyé : 21 novembre 2006 10:11
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> Objet : Re: food and CLSM
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> Confocal Raman Microscopy certainly has wide spread application in food
> science. WITec has a new Application note on Food Analysis on their web
> site - http://www.witec.de/download/raman_01.html
>
> Bill Miller
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> Umberto
>
> As well as the "high end" techniques of multiphoton confocal, specific
> labelling and SEM, you may consider basic bright field light microscopy. It
> depends what you want to look for but I have seen several papers where
> speculations were made about ingredient locations based solely on SEM,
> whilst a good old fashioned light microscope would have revealed starch,
> protein, air bubbles etc. I have used a dilute I/KI solution to stain starch
> and fast green to stain protein.
>
> You can find out more about light microscopy of food materials in Olga
> Flint's Royal Microscopical Society Handbook 30: "Food Microscopy" published
> by Bios. There may be helpful sample preparation techniques for cereals that
> you could adapt to the confocal. I do feel that good old fashioned bright
> field or polarized light microscopy is a much neglected technique in food
> studies.
>
> Re: confocal techniques - you may be interested in this paper
> Auty, M.A.E., Twomey, M., Guinee, T.P. and Mulvihill, D.M. 2001. Development
> and applications of confocal scanning laser microscopy methods for studying
> the distribution of fat and protein in selected food products. Journal of
> Dairy Research. 68: 417-427.
>
> These are general methods for dairy products and don't distinguish between
> different proteins or specific lipids. You will probably have to develop a
> method yourself for this. A problem I have found with foods is that of
> immobilizing the substrate. Paraffin or resin embedding is one approach.
> Most published data on specific labeling of food ingredients used
> pre-labelled proteins (antibody-based) or polysaccharides (covalent
> labeling) then mixed them in a model system. I'd be interested to hear of
> anyone who has localized specific proteins/polysaccharides/lipids in any
> heterogenous food system.
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>
>
> Regards
> Mark
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>
> Dr. Mark Auty
> Food Processing & Functionality Department
> Moorepark Food Research Centre
> Teagasc
> Moorepark
> Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland
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> fax: +353 25 42340
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> From: Confocal Microscopy List [ mailto:[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ] On Behalf Of Umberto Fascio
> Sent: 20 November 2006 09:59
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> Subject: food and CLSM
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> Dear all
> I'm a food technologist and my field of research is Cereal Science and
> Technology. In the recent years I've approached to Scanning Electron
> Microscopy and I've found it very fascinating and really useful to my
> research. I'd like to go in depth with the knowledge of my materials by
> using the Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy: I had just a short "meeting"
> with it, but it was enough to catch me!!! Well, in my research I deal with
> kernels, flours and baking processes and I'd like to better study, also from
> a microstuctural point of view, these materials and the interaction between
> protein-starch-fiber-lipids when the flour is mixed to give dough ... but I
> absolutely ignore how to treat them (sample preparation, specific
> fluorescent labels...) for the CLSM observation. Please, would be so kind
> to give me any help?
> Many thanks in advance,
> Manuela
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>
> Dr. Manuela Mariotti
> DiSTAM - Food Technology
> University of Milan
> via G. Celoria, 2
> 20133 Milan, Italy
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> Dott. Umberto Fascio
> C.I.M.A.
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> Via Celoria 26 - 20133 Milano
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> fax:+39 0250314802
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