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Hello, Lovely RMS Community -

I am Holly Aaron, Director of the Molecular Imaging Center (MIC), part of the Cancer Research Labortory at University of California, Berkeley, in the US. The MIC has all light microscopes, including confocal (spinning and scanning), lightsheet, slide scanning, and more. I got tricked into taking this job way back in 2001 and somehow I really enjoyed it. So much so that I tried to quit and just couldn't. So I look forward to learning from the world.

And if anyone can send kind wishes our way tomorrow, that would be most appreciated. Trying not to think about it, but hard to completely block it out, even when working in a dark room on beautiful glowing specimens. Le sigh.

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