Instrumentation

Fluorescence and Bright Field Microscopes

TissueFAXS SL Fluorescent Slide Scanner

  • Rapid fluorescent scanning of fixed tissues
  • Up to 7 fluorescent tags
  • 120 slide loader

DeltaVision Ultra Microscope for Well-plates

  • Best for live cell imaging in well-plates
  • Inverted microscope with XYZ nano-motion stage, environmental chamber, solid state illumination module, Ultimate Focus for long-term observation
  • Softworx deconvolution software

DeltaVision Microscope with Ultimate Focus and TIRF module

  • Best for live cell imaging, photokinetics experiments and TIRF imaging
  • Inverted microscope with XYZ nano-motion stage, environmental chamber, solid state illumination module, four lasers, Ultimate Focus for long-term observation, TIRF module
  • Softworx deconvolution software

DeltaVision-OMX Super-Resolution Microscope 

  • Best for imaging thin samples
  • Experimental microscope (OMX) with XYZ nano-motion stage, Structured Illumination, four lasers, three cameras, heated stage
  • Softworx processing software

Leica SP8 Spectral Confocal Microscope

  • Best for imaging live or fixed thick samples and for Intravital Imaging.
  • Leica inverted DMi8 microscope with heated & CO2 environmental chamber, White Light and 2 other lasers, Transmitted light detection, 1 PMT and 3 High sensitivity detectors.
  • Leica software

Nikon Spinning-Disk Confocal Microscope with TIRF module

  • Confocal mode has a small field-of-view and is primarily for live cell imaging on thicker samples. It is not intended for scanning large samples.
  • Nikon inverted microscope with XYZ stage, left lateral arm Yokogawa spinning disk module and Andor Clara camera, right lateral arm wide field epifluorescence module, transmitted light detection and Photometrics camera, back illumination TIRF module, environmental chamber, four lasers, seven line solid state illumination source
  • Nikon NIS Elements software

Nikon A1R Ultra-Fast Spectral Scanning Confocal Microscope

  • Best for imaging live/fixed thick samples
  • Nikon inverted microscope with XYZ stage and environmental chamber, left lateral arm scanning head with a four standard detector unit and a 32 ultra fast spectral (resonant scanning) detector unit, four lasers, seven line solid state illumination source, and right lateral arm wide field epifluorescence module, transmitted light detection and Andor Clara camera, and Lumen illumination source
  • Nikon NIS Elements software

Olympus FV1000 Multiphoton Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope

  • Best for imaging live/fixed thick samples and intravital imaging
  • Olympus inverted IX81 microscope with heated and CO2 stage incubator, MaiTai laser, photomultiplier detectors -four channels
  • Olympus software

Olympus FV1200 Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope

  • Best for imaging live/fixed thick samples
  • Olympus inverted IX83 microscope with heated and CO2 stage incubator, five lasers, transmitted light detection, three PMTs and two high sensitivity detectors
  • Olympus software
  • Hamamatsu ImagEM high sensitivity camera

Image processing workstations/computers

Nemo Imaris Workstation

  • 3D workstation with ImageJ and Imaris 3D software for image processing

Marlin StrataQuest Workstation

  • 2D workstation with StrataQuest for whole-slide image analysis
  • Paired with TissueFAXS Slide Scanner

Specialty Microscopes

RETIRED Arcturus Laser Capture Microdissection system

  • Ideal for precise, under-microscope collection of tissue cells for molecular analysis
  • Compact system incorporating an inverted microscope for direct visualization of the cells of interest, an IR diode laser and a UV laser