Training
If you would like to use the equipment at the NIC, please fill out the training request form. The NIC staff will contact you via e-mail to consult about your imaging needs and schedule a 1-2 hour training session for the microscope best suited for your project. Further training on other microscopes is always available. After the training session we will give you access to the NIC calendar on MyCores and you can reserve time on the microscopes on which you have been trained.
Scheduling
Time on all microscopes must be reserved through the iLab calendar. After training, we will grant access to the calendars, which you will allow you to reserve time in iLab.
To help ensure availability of the microscopes for all users:
- Microscope time may be reserved no more than 14 days in advance.
- Users may reserve a maximum of:
- 12 hours per week between 8am and 8pm, Monday to Friday
- An additional 12 hours a week between 8pm and 8 am or on weekends
- On the time lapse microscope, users may reserve up to 48 hours per week.
- Users may always book time in the next 24 hours without this counting against their allotment of time
If your project requires more time than allowed under this system please contact the core; exceptions may be made with good cause.
Acknowledgements
Formal acknowledgements help us demonstrate to companies that have provided equipment to the NIC that the center is producing useful scientific results, justifying their continued support. Acknowledgements also help us justify the importance of the center to granting agencies as we apply for grants in the future. When you publish a paper incorporating data acquired at the NIC please send a reprint or complete citation of the paper the core staff.
Occasionally the NIC staff may become substantially involved in experimental design, data acquisition, or data analysis meriting co-authorship. Ordinary training and assistance with the microscope does not merit co-authorship. However, in cases where the project probably would not have been successful or would not have been possible without the involvement of the NIC staff both the user and staff should consider whether this merits co-authorship.