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Spinning Disc 2 Nikon-Roper ILAS PhotoAblation

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

Primary tasks:
Confocal Spinning Disc microscopy, 3D imaging

Microscope: Nikon Eclipse Ti with Perfect Focus System (3rd generation)

Confocal Head: Yokogawa CSU-X1-A1

Objective:
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Demonstration of the Keyence Digital Microscope VHX-2000

2013.06.26
Demonstration of the Keyence Digital Microscope VHX-2000

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20130626 Demonstration of the Keyence Digital Microscope VHX-2000 -2

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Simon Hermans (Keyence) is demonstrating the digital microscope.

 

Cell Biology Utrecht University, Room O-523

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Testing Zeiss Light Sheet Z1

2013.06.14
Testing Zeiss Light Sheet Z.1 microscope at Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research

2013.06.14 Testing Zeiss Light Sheet Z1 at Hubrecht 1

2013.06.14 Testing Zeiss Light Sheet Z1 at Hubrecht 2
Jack Boenders (Carl Zeiss) is installing the sample into the microscope.

2013.06.14 Testing Zeiss Light Sheet Z1 at Hubrecht 3
EB3-GFP and mCherry-LifeAct in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells, grown in matrigel.
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New Spinning Disc-2 system installation

2013.06.10
New Spinning Disc-2 system installation

20130610 New Spinning Disc system installation 1
Christophe Grolleau (Roper Scientific SAS) is installing the laser launch.

20130610 New Spinning Disc system installation 2
The focusing of the Spinning Disc pinholes.

 

Cell Biology Utrecht University, Room O-524

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Testing Zeiss Spinning Disc system

2013.02.19-21
Testing Zeiss Spinning Disc system

20130219 testing Zeiss Spinning Disc 1
Sven Terclavers (Carl Zeiss) is explaining the interface of the Zen 2011-Blue software.

20130219 testing Zeiss Spinning Disc 2
The stopped spinning disc, imaged with                    Growing microtubule plus ends,
Rolera EM-C2 (1004 x 1002) EMCCD camera            visualized with EB3-GFP in … 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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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Zeiss

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Zeiss

Zeiss company was founded by Carl Zeiss in Jena (Germany) in 1846. In 1866 physicist Ernst Abbe joined Zeiss and designed greatly improved lenses for the microscopes they were producing. Carl Zeiss together with Otto Schott and Ernst Abbe … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Wild Heerbrugg

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Wild Heerbrugg

The Wild Heerbrugg company was founded in 1921 in Switzerland by Heinrich Wild. Heinrich Wild (1877–1951) was a leading designer of geodetic and astronomical instruments. In 1908, having invented a military rangefinder and after convincing Zeiss to manufacture … Read more

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