Available Microscopes & Equipment
Available Microscopes & Techniques
Advanced Light Microscopy — Technology Platform offers several high end state-of-art microscope setups for a wide range of imaging techniques and applications:
Confocal Laser Scanning and 2‑Photon Microscopy:
| Leica TCS SPE | upright, with 405÷488÷561÷635 nm laser, 10x/20xOil/40xOil/63xOil objective, motorized stage |
| Leica TCS SP5 |
inverted, with 405÷488÷561÷633 nm laser, 10x/20xMI/40xOil/63xOil/63xW objective, tandem resonance scanner, 3 PMT and 2 HyD detectors, motorized stage, live cell incubator |
| Leica TCS SP8 |
inverted, with 488÷561÷633 nm laser, 10x/20xMI/63xGlycerol objective, tandem resonance scanner, 1 PMT and 2 HyD detectors, motorized stage, live cell incubator |
| Zeiss LSM 510 Meta NLO |
inverted, with 488÷561÷633 nm and 2‑Photon laser, 10x/25xMI/40xW/63xOil/63xW/100xOil objective, 2 PMT, 1 META and 1ND detector, motorized stage, live cell incubator |
| Zeiss LSM 710 NLO |
inverted, with 405÷488÷561÷633 nm and 2‑Photon laser, 5x/10x/20x/25xMI/32xW/40xOil/63xOil objective, 3 PMT detectors, motorized stage, live cell incubator |
| Zeiss LSM 700 |
inverted, with 405÷488÷555÷639 nm laser, 5x/10x/20x/40x/40xOil/63xOil objective, 2 PMT detectors, motorized stage, live cell incubator |
2‑Photon microscopy for in vivo/intravital imaging:
| LaVision TRIMScope |
upright, with 2‑Photon laser and OPO, 4x/20xW/63xW objective, 3 PMT and 2 high sensitivity PMTdetectors, EMCCD camera for single beam and multi beam scanning, incubation system |
Widefield fluorescence and TIRF microscopy:
| Olympus Cell^R |
inverted fluorescence microscope with 10x/20x/40xOil/63xW/63xTIRF/100xTIRF objective, 405÷458÷488÷514÷561÷640 nm laser for TIRF illumination, EMCCD camera, motorized stage and TIRF illumination, autofocus system, live cell incubator |
Widefield fluorescence and laser microdissection microscopy:
| Zeiss PALM MicroBeam |
inverted fluorescence microscope with 5x/10x/20x/40x objective, color and B/W camera for laser-assisted micro-dissection and catapulting |
Light-sheet microscopy:
LaVision Ultra light sheet microscope I whith white-light laser and sCMOS camera
Stereomicroscopy:
Leica MF165 fluorescence stereomicroscope
Cell culture incubator, steril bench and a small lab area in the ALM allows for short-time storage of live specimen and sample preparation.