To do list
as 06/16/2005 (rizal)

= Myself
- learn about optical microscope 
  - source: www.microscopyu.com
            Fundamentals of light microscopy book
  - how lens work?

= MICROSCOPE 
[X] understand the current setup with 40x lower objective and cheap camera
  [X] do all the quick tests that Bernie, Heun Jin, Erik, and Zahid suggested me to do

- with the cheap CCD connected to the tv
  [X] being able to align the microscope quickly
  - get consistent image with the 40x lower objective o
       [X] beads
       [X} SEs tube with 0.1x cyber gold dye
       [X] FAM SEs tube (TAMRA tube does not form well)
       - zig-zag
   - get fluorescence image with 100x objective
     [X] beads
     - FAM SEs tube
     - zig-zag
   - get fluorescence image with 100x TIRF objective
     [X] beads
     - FAM SEs tube
     - zig-zag
   - get TIRF working
     - beads
     - FAM SEs tube
     - zig-zag

X re-install the Hamamatsu CCD

- repeat all the test/imaging with the Hamamatsu CCD

= MACHINE SHOP 
[X] ask access for Psaltis' machine shop
[X] install the 2m long synchrotron tube
[X] install the revolving nosepiece to the translation stage
[X] install the new translation stage for the upper objectives
- fix the tilted sample stage
- increase the hole for the sample stage

= QUAD IMAGER 
- get more $$$ and purchase quad imager
- install the quad imager
- multiple wavelengths excitations [ask Bernie]
- software to analyze the images

= BEAM CHOPPER
[ask Bernie]
currently, the beam chopper is just a 3M sticky notes

= WET LAB 
- know the protocol to passivate microscope slides
- obtain the recipe of the oxygen scavenger buffer [ask Harry]

= SOFTWARE 
- bug other lab members to help me with the software

= OTHERS
- solve the vibration problem -> move the microscope to ???
  - optical table in the AFM room
  
= UTILITIES 
- collect the catalogs
  [X] Edmund Scientific
  - ThorLabs

- purchase more lens paper
- find/purchase 3 hole covers for the revolving nose piece
[X] purchase two missing screws for the black box above the upper objective
- purchase optical cleaner from Edmund Scientific
- purchase low fluorescence immersion oil from Cargill Inc

[X] move gel scanner monitor to storage room