Category: Equipment

Confocal Spinning Disc 3 Nikon Ti2 – Yokogawa X1

Spinning-Disc-3
Suzan Ruijtenberg and Mike Boxem are imaging the worm (Ceanorhabditis elegans), in which their newly developed CRE-loxP based recombination system is illustrated in the intestine. Tissue specific expression of CRE leads to an intestine specific knock-out of their gene of … Read more

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Confocal Spinning Disc 2 Nikon Ti – Yokogawa X1 – Gataca iLAS FRAP/Photoablation system

Spinning Disc 2 system
Marina Mikhaylova and Philipp Schätzle are studying the synaptic targeting of the protein in dissociated neurons.

Primary tasks:

  • Confocal live cell imaging
  • 3D imaging
  • FRAP
  • Optogenetics
  • Photo-Ablation

Microscope: Eclipse Ti-E with PFS (Nikon, Japan)

Stage: MS-2000-XYZ with Piezo Top Plate… Read more

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Upright FL microscope Zeiss Axioskop

Upright fluorescence microscope Zeiss Axioskop
Karin Boekhoorn, studying Tau-transgenic mouse brain, stained for Tau-hyperphosphorylation

Primary tasks: Imaging of fixed samples

Microscope
Manual upright
DIC optics

Objectives
A full set of objectives from 2.5x to 100x is available for all our wide-field fluorescence microscopes. Dry … Read more

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Upright fluorescence microscope Olympus AX70

Olympus AX70
Emine Korkmazare and Ankie van Geffen are working on the skin samples of intracranial aneurism from a patient, looking for the collagen aberrations.

Primary tasks: Imaging of fixed samples

Microscope: Olympus AX70

Objective:
A full set of objectives from 2.5x … Read more

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Confocal Zeiss LSM 5 Pascal

Zeiss Pascal
Dora Panagaki is studying the primary neuronal cells, fixed and stained for early endosomes, mitochondria and Golgi apparatus.

Primary tasks:
• Confocal microscopy
• 3D imaging
• FRAP

Microscope
Axiovert 200M (motorized inverted)
DIC optics

Objectives
10x (dry)
40x (water … Read more

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Inverted Microscope Nikon TS-100

Inverted Microscope Nikon TS-100
Benjamin Bouchet is checking the growth of the colony of the primary mammary cells

Primary tasks: Cell Culture Observation

Microscope: Nikon TS-100

Objective:
    Plan Fluor 4x N.A. 0.13 phase-contrast
    ADL 10x N.A. 0.25 apodized phase contrast… Read more

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Upright FL microscope Olympus BX53

Upright fluorescence microscope Olympus BX53
Catia Frias and Marleen van Coevorden are discussing the external control of synaptic cargo transport

 

Primary tasks: Imaging of fixed samples

Microscope: Olympus BX53

Objective:
UPLSAPO 20xO 0,85 oil
UPLFLN 40xO /1,3 oil
UPLSAPO 60xO /1,35 oil
UPLSAPO 100xO … Read more

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Upright fluorescence microscope Nikon Eclipse 80i

Upright fluorescence microscope Nikon Eclipse 80i
Helma van Riel and master student Kim Boonekamp are checking microtubule binding of kinesin Kif21A mutants


Primary tasks: Imaging of fixed samples

Microscope: Nikon Eclipse 80i

Objective:

  • Plan Apo VC 100x N.A. 1.40 oil
  • Plan Apo VC 60x N.A. 1.40
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