Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics

Upright fluorescence microscope Nikon Ni-E

Upright FL microscope Nikon Eclipse Ni
Jingchao Wu is studying

Primary tasks: Imaging of fixed samples

Microscope: Nikon Eclipse Ni-E

Objective:

  • Plan Apo Lambda 100x N.A. 1.45 oil
  • Plan Apo Lambda 60x N.A. 1.40 oil
  • Plan Fluor 40x N.A. 1.30 oil
  • Plan Fluor 20x N.A. 0.75
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Super-Resolution STORM/PALM custom made system

Primary tasks:
3D Single Molecule Localization Microscopy using Adaptive Optics

Microscope: Nikon Eclipse Ti with Perfect Focus System 3

Objectives:

Nikon Apo TIRF 100x/1.49 NA oil 
Nikon PLAN FLUOR 10x/0.3 NA air

Camera: 2 x Hamamatsu Flash 4.0v2

Lasers:
Omicron … Read more

TIRF Nikon Ti – Roper iLas-2 FRAP/Photoablation

TIRF 3 Nikon-Roper ILAS-2 PhotoAblation
Kai Jiang is studying the microtubule minus end proteins in the cells

Primary tasks:
TIRF microscopy, Single Molecule Imaging, FRAP, Photo-Activation, Photo-Ablation (532 nm)

Microscope: Nikon Eclipse Ti with Perfect Focus System

Objective: Apo TIRF 100x / 1.49, oil, WD=0.09-0.16 … Read more

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

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

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