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Hi Geroge and All,
Thanks, George. Yes I am aware of this survey and few others directed at
Core Facilities in general and certainly microscopy facilities were
included. In fact about 1/2 of the 36 included respondants ran EM
facilities. I recommend that others read this as well as there is much
useful information and a great resource. However, after attempting to use a
similar broad survey internally with 10 cores at my institution, I can only
get so far with this information for my own center and the others as well.
Our other cores, covering the gamut of technologies and services, have
greatly varying business models. While the survey I requested my
colleagues participate in has some fundamental overlapping questions with
other surveys, it has many questions that are highly specific to microscopy
that are never included in a broader non-microscopy specific survey.
Further, some overlap was intended as this will allow us to compare how
microscopy facilities compare to cores in general. I am hoping we get over
100 respondents (more if possible) specific to microscopy. When I walk into
my administration with the results, I want to be able to parse out the
details specifically with cores more like mine. I think this distinction
matters when I want to show what percentage of cores have or plan to add
super-resolution microscopy to their centers, for example. I think a survey
like this should also be held periodically so we can watch the changes of
microscopy centers as they evolve with time and as I mentioned before I
would welcome feedback on improving the questions in future iterations.
George, you bring up a good point about the other survey and we will be
sure to include this citation and others related to microscopy facilities,
microscopy salaries with the report.
Best Regards, Kirk
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:19 PM, George McNamara
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> Hi Kirk,
>
> The ABRF has conducted core facility surveys and publishes the results.
> See for example
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> http://jbt.abrf.org/index.cfm/**page/jbt_toc.htm<http://jbt.abrf.org/index.cfm/page/jbt_toc.htm>
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> J Biomol Tech. 2011 December; 22(4): 131--135.
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> PMCID: PMC3221449
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> </pmc/about/copyright.html>
> University Multi-User Facility Survey---2010
> Melissa B. Riley^*
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> George
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>
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> On 4/12/2012 12:16 PM, Kirk Czymmek wrote:
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>> Dear Microscopy Colleagues,
>> Periodically, my microscopy center and others send out requests through
>> the
>> listervers about usage and cost recovery and such for benchmarking to
>> share
>> with administrators or just to get a sense of how we are doing.
>> It occurred to me that rather than just compiling a few anecdotal
>> examples,
>> it might be helpful if a more formal survey and analysis was done and made
>> available through the web for as many microscopy facilities as possible. I
>> have put together a microscopy metrics survey with a 3rd party vendor who
>> will be kind enough to acquire, analyze and create a full report of the
>> compiled data.
>> Questions like equipment type, cost recovery, institutional support
>> levels, sources of equipment funding and advanced techniques specific to
>> microscopy center are asked. I anticipate this process and the questions
>> will evolve in future surveys as we get feedback, but I am hoping if you
>> manage/direct a microscopy facility that you would take about 5-10 minutes
>> to complete the survey. Any financial numbers could be reasonable
>> estimations if you are willing to share. Of course and
>> suggestions/improvements are welcome and you can email me directly or do
>> it
>> through the survey.
>> A full report will be available in a few months but feel free to ask
>> sooner
>> if you need it.
>> If you are willing to participate please go to the following link and
>> click
>> on the gray "Metrics on Microscopy Facilities" button on the right hand
>> side of the home-page: http://www.ideaelan.com/**public/index.aspx<http://www.ideaelan.com/public/index.aspx>
>> Disclaimer. I have no personal financial interest in the vendor hosting
>> the survey but do use their software to manage my center.
>> Best Regards,
>> Kirk J. Czymmek, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Biological Sciences
>> Director UD Bio-Imaging Center
>> University of Delaware
>> Newark, DE 19716
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Carlos Lizama<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> I need to get a tutorial for NIS element? someone knows where can i get
>>> one?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Carlos
>>>
>>>
>>>
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