About the Biological Imaging Laboratory
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History
This project was proposed by Professors Manoel Luis Costa, Cláudia
dos Santos Mermelstein and Leila Francisco de Souza for the 2° Project
to Support the Renewall of Undergraduate Teaching (PARG II) of the Rio
de Janeiro Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The Head of the Department,
Prof Leila Francisco, iniated a metodological revolution in the Department's
teaching methods and the renewall of one of the most traditional groups
in the Histology and Embriology in our country. The admission of Cell Biology
teachers was part of this modernization proccess, which led to the substitution
of more than a third of the staff since 1990.
Unfortunately, due to a delay in financial support liberation and in
equipaments import, we could only recently regularize the use of Slice
of Life and of our products by students.
Prof. Carlos Azambuja helped us for a while, what was essencial in establishing
the project , on the training of personel and in the generation of some
products.
On February of 1995 we submited to the PARG 95 program of the UFRJ an
important update and growth of our Laboratory, which included the purchase
of Sillicon Graphics Indy workstations and CDROM recorders. This would
enable us with better ways to generate and distribute our products. Unfortunately,
we still have no answer from the University.
Equipment
We have three sets of Pioneer LVD 2400 videodiscs, a Sharp 14 ' television,
a Macintosh Quadra 610 (16MB RAM/160MB HD) computer and a Macintosh 14'
monitor to make use of Slice of Life.
In order to produce educational material, we have a Macintosh Quadra
840AV (32MB RAM/1 GB HD) computer, a Macintosh 16' monitor, a truecolor
LaCie SilverScanner, a Pinnacle Sierra (1.2 GB) magnetic-optic disc and
a Hewllet Packard DeskJet 660C colour print. We also have a Dell Optiplex
GL 575 (16MB RAM/514MB HD) computer with a Dell monitor and a Zeiss Axiovert
complete optic microscope with phase contrast, interferencial, polarization,
fluorescency, photography and video from the Imaging Processing Laboratory.
Staff
Professors Leila Francisco de Souza e Leila Del Caro collaborated in the
set up phase. The trainees Yugo Murakami and Tompson Peccini also participated.
Carlos Azambuja's help was essential for the hole Lab's project. Not only
in designing but also in programming, helping to teach the many programs
we use.
Susana Hoette and Maria Vitoria F. de Oliveira, undergraduated students,
are working with us now.
Sometimes, we admit trainees.
Products
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3D animated recontructions (models of the membranne, of the cell, of citosqueleton
components) that can be visualized as digital films;
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multimídias interativos, que podem funcionar independentemente no
computador (sobre ovulação, neurogênese na retina),
ou ligados ao VideoDisco (sobre Biologia Celular);
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reconstruções de eventos dinâmicos, como a morfogênese
no embrião.
Em princípio, estes produtos podem ser distribuídos em disquete,
CDROM, ZipDrive, disco magneto-óptico, ou pela rede WorldWideWeb.
Também temos transportado esses produtos para outros meios, como
vídeos, slides, panfletos.
Current projects
Estamos trabalhando num projeto de vídeo e multimídia sobre
reprodução e biologia celular, junto com o Prof. Maurício
Luz, do Colégio de Aplicação - UFRJ.
Estamos atualizando o Banco de Imagens Digitais.
Histology and Embriology Department
Nosso Departamento trabalha
com Biologia Celular, Histologia e Embriologia, participando (em geral
no ciclo básico) de todos os cursos do Centro de Ciências
da Saúde da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Nossas linhas
de pesquisa incluem desenvolvimento e citoesqueleto de células musculares,
organização do sistema óptico de invertebrados, características
de alguns clones de Trypanosoma cruzi, histopatologia das células
do fígado, matriz extracelular e secreção de prolactina,
histologia de tegumentos, etc. Também estamos ligados ao Programa
de Pós-graduação em Ciências Morfológicas,
recentemente estabelecido.
Support
O Laboratório foi estabelecido dentro do Projeto PARG II da Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Temos recebido indiretamente o apoio do Conselho
Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico CNPqe
da Fundação José Bonifácio FUJB. Também
tem nos apoiado as firmas Carl Zeiss, Micronal e Olympus.
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About the Bio Img Lab
Basic Research
Cellular Biology
Histology
Embriology
Image Bank
Slice of Life
Profs Manoel Luís Costa & Cláudia
dos Santos Mermelstein;
Rio, 9/19/96
