LCAM-FNWI
welcomes you
The Van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy (LCAM) is a collaboration between three innovative microscopy centres at the Academic Medical Centre (AMC), the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (FNWI) and the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI).
LCAM offers visualisation and microscopical analysis of cell organelles, cells and tissues.
The first upcoming LCAM events are:
- 1 October 2018UvA Advanced Microscopy
- 12 November 2018Methods and Techniques in Neurobiology
- 12 December 2018LCAM Confocal training day
- 29 January 2019Basics in Fluorescence Microscopy
For more info about past and future LCAM-courses & events visit www.microscopycourse.nl
Avr2-Six5 pair alters plasmodesmatal exclusion selectivity
Plasmodesmata are gated junctions regulating symplastic transport between adjacent plant cells. Two secreted proteins from the tomato pathogen Fusarium oxysporum were found to manipulate plasmodesmatal selectivity. This manipulation allows the proteins to move from one cell to neighbouring cells to suppress immune responses, signifying a new mechanism of host manipulation by fungal pathogens.
In order to better understand how this works Avr2 and Six5 proteins were labeled with FPs and have been visualized using confocal microscopy. Read more.
The research, carried out at Molecular Plant Pathology (SILS-FNWI) mainly by Lingxue Cao & Mila Blekemolen has been published in the latest edition of
Molecular Plant.
Would you like to display your experimental data here? Contact us!
LCAM-FNWI operates directly under the research group Molecular Cytology at the University of Amsterdam. Here you will find a wide range of instrumentation for fluorescence-, confocal-, super-resolution & living cell microscopy combined with equipment for functional imaging.
LCAM has become a Euro-BioImaging Flaghship centre for Functional Imaging and High Content Microscopy.
For more info about LCAM-FNWI:
Director: Dorus Gadella
Website: Mark Hink
For microscope-specific questions communicate with the contact person indicated in the Facilities-section