Category: Equipment

Super resolution and confocal microscope Leica TCS SP8 STED3X SMD FLIM

Confocal Leica SP8 FLIM STED3X super-resolution
Joanna Lipka is studying the microtubules in primary hippocampal neurons  

Primary tasks:

  • STED super-resolution imaging
  • Confocal live cell microscopy
  • FLIM
  • FCS

Microscope
Leica DMI 6000 CS AFC with Adaptive Focus Control
Confocal module with filter free spectral detection, 2 … Read more

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Confocal Laser Scanning microscope Zeiss LSM700 (2)

Confocal Zeiss LSM 700-2

Maud Martin is studying microtubules in endothelial cells

 

Primary tasks:

  • Confocal microscopy
  • 3D imaging
  • FRAP

Microscope: Axio Observer Z1 (inverted) (Zeiss, Germany)

Stage: motorized (Märzhäuser, Germany)

Objectives:

    EC Plan-Neofluar 10x/0.3  WD=5.2mm, Air (Zeiss, Germany)
    Plan-Apochromat … Read more

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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 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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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 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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Plasma Cleaner

Plasma Cleaner 1

Plasma Cleaner 2
Eugene Katrukha and Bas Cloin are cleaning the cover glasses for the single molecule imaging

Primary tasks:
• Cleaning the cover glasses for the single molecule imaging

Model: Harrick Plasma Cleaner PDC-002

Includes a 6″ diameter x 6.5″ length Pyrex … Read more

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