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Hi Kirk,

At the recent ABRF annual meeting in Orlando there was an organizing 
session for what may become two regional chapters: Mid-Atlantic (i.e. 
you) and Southeast (multiple individuals from U Florida, U Miami, MD 
Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and more). The chapters and 
affiliates web page is 
http://www.abrf.org/index.cfm/page/home/affiliates_chapters.htm   ... 
there is one international chapter (India).

At a University - or even just considering a medical school (most of 
UM's research funding are at the med school) - there should not be a 
wide variety of "business models". The ABRF web site - and various 
articles in its house journal - have contacts and resources for aligning 
the core's.

Best wishes,

George



On 4/13/2012 4:58 AM, Kirk Czymmek wrote:
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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,
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>> The ABRF has conducted core facility surveys and publishes the results.
>> See for example
>>
>> 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^*
>>
>>
>> George
>>
>>
>>
>> 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,
>>>>
>>>> I need to get a tutorial for NIS element? someone knows where can i get
>>>> one?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> Carlos
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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