Scientists from across Southern Africa visited the CNE to experience the automated high content microscope, Dr Sebastian Gleim and Dr Iman van den Bout in front of the Zeiss CellDiscoverer 7 platform.Dr SebastianGleim, product specialist from Zeiss demonstrated the platform and presented a number of expert lectures on different aspects of microscopy. Researchers fromthe CNE including Dr Iman van den Bout and Dr Ross Anderson as well as Dr Andre Stander from the Department of Physiology had the opportunity to use the platform to generate terrabytes of real time imaging data which are revealing interesting new avenues for further research.