Equipment
Bio Optics Facility
Confocal Microscopes
Zeiss LSM 780 NLO Airyscan
Confocal laser scanning microscope on a fully motorised inverted stand with six visible laser lines. It is equipped with photomultiplier tubes for deep blue and deep red/ near infrared imaging and the very sensitive GaAsP detector based Quasar unit for normal and hyperspectral imaging in the visible range. With its pulsed and tunable infrared laser and its two non-descanned GaAsP detectors the microscope can also be used for two-photon imaging.
Olympus Fluoview 1200
Confocal laser scanning microscope on a fully motorised inverted stand with 2 scanheads, one for imaging and one for simultaneous sample manipulation. It is equipped with standard photomultiplier tubes as detectors as well as very sensitive GaAsP detectors. It can be used with a standard range of lasers for imaging and manipulation and has an additional pulsed UV laser for sample manipulation only.
Leica TCS SP8
Confocal laser scanning microscope on a fully motorised upright stand for routine work. It is equipped with four diode lasers and hosts one standard photomuliplier tube as detector as well a s three very sensitive hybrid detectors.
Widefield Microscopes
Zeiss AxioImager
Upright widefield microscope with a fully motorised stand. It has a highly sensitive sCMOS camera dedicated for fluorescence imaging and a high resolution CCD colour camera. It hosts a large set of fluorescence filters and can be used for a broad range of transmitted light modalities.
Zeiss AxioObserver
Inverted widefield microscope with a fully motorised stand. It is a dedicated system for live imaging with a stage-top incubator, fast switching LED illumination for transmitted light as well as fluorescence illumination and a very fast and sensitive sCMOS camera. This microscope offers a high flexibility in terms of lighting conditions and objectives.
Acquifer Imaging Machine
Inverted widefield microscope with a fully motorised stand. It is a dedicated system for live imaging with a stage-top incubator, fast switching LED illumination for transmitted light as well as fluorescence illumination and a fast and sensitive sCMOS camera. This microscope holds multiwell-plates on a stationary stage so samples don't need to be immobilised for long term imaging.
Zeiss AxioZoom
Upright widefield microscope with a fully motorised stand with zoom optics. With its large field of view at a high resolution it is dedicated for large specimen. It is equipped with a highly sensitive and very fast sCMOS camera for fluorescence imaging and a high resolution CCD colour camera.
Sorting
FACS Melody
Simple and easy to use fluorescence based cell counter/ sorter with three lasers and up to four detection channels. Cells can be sorted into tubes or multiwell plates.
Other Equipment
We also host microscopes equipped for reflective imaging and epi-darkfield, with camera lucida, with dipping objectives, etc. We have incubation options for all our inverted systems to enable long term live imaging. There are also two workstations available for image analysis and processing.