ZEISS Microscopy Solutions Centre in the Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute
ZEISS Microscopy is set to launch a new initiative that hopes to improve collaboration between scientists. The X-ray and microscope manufacturer will partner with a few research institutes for the project, including the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute Biomedical Research, and the FAU John D. MacArthur Campus.
Key information:
- ZEISS Microscopy announces new initiative to improve collaboration between scientists.
- The X-ray and microscope manufacturer will partner with various institutes for the project, including previous collaborators, the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.
- Scientists involved in the initiative will receive additional support with their hardware and software, as well as during experiments. They will also receive advanced training and development of specialised microscopy workflows.
The initiative will run out of the ZEISS Microscopy Solutions Centre in the Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute. Any scientists opting to get involved with the project will receive training and development in a variety of different areas. The X-ray and microscope manufacturers are hoping to provide advanced training and development of specialised microscopy workflows to help scientists accelerate their research. Additional alleged benefits include help during experiments, real-time feedback, and experts will be on hand to help scientists modify their hardware and software to improve usability.
"Our main mission of supporting and advancing science is achieved by putting more collaborative resources into innovation," said Mary Phillips, PhD, Solutions Marketing Manager for Neuroscience at ZEISS Microscopy North America. "By partnering with research institutions and developing artificial intelligence machine learning models, we can translate images into actionable data and disseminate this software to other labs to benefit from this work."
ZEISS and Max Planck have already seen success during a previous collaboration, with the two companies having made scientific discoveries in the neuroscience realm. Using ZEISS’ imaging technology and correcting for distortions, scientists imaged ten different colours in the living brain. This allowed the team to study the neural activity encoding social memory. Following this success, ZEISS plans to create more partnerships and solution centres with more universities and institutes, to expand its technology reach and amplify the voices of scientists.
"Having the people developing the technology in the same setting as the scientists addressing the question results in new ideas on how to get to the next discovery,” said McLean Bolton. PhD, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Florida Institute. “That kind of interaction is necessary to step forward and accelerate discovery.”