Microscopy Laboratory
The Microscopy Laboratory is located at Gemini-South 4.02.
The microscopy room is part of the <link en university departments biomedical-engineering the-department facilities laboratory-for-cell-tissue-engineering>Laboratory for Cell and Tissue Engineering. It is a fully blindable room inside this laboratory that houses our microscopy equipment. We have microscopes for brightfield, DIC, phase contrast, polarization, and epi-fluorescence microscopy, as well as four laser scanning microscopes. Between our laser scanning microscopes, there are two with a two-photon laser, one with a white-light laser, and one spinning disk confocal system. We can e.g. do confocal- and two-photon laser scanning microscopy, FLIM, FRET, FRAP and SHG with these microscopes. The spinning disk confocal microscope is equipped with mechanical testing devices in order to visualize material deformations during mechanical testing, and two of our microscopes are equipped with incubation boxes for live cell imaging.
List of equipment
Zeiss Axio Observer Z1 | Brightfield, polarisation, DIC, phase contrast, fluorescence Live cell imaging with incubation box |
Zeiss Axiovert 200M | Dedicated (epi-)fluorescence microscope |
Zeiss Discovery V8 stereo microscope | |
Zeiss LSM510 | Confocal laser scanning microscope With Argon and Helium/Neon laser |
Zeiss LSM510 Meta NLO | Confocal laser scanning microscope Two-photon laser scanning microscope Non linear optics for e.g. SHG Argon laser, Helium/Neon laser, and two-photon laser |
Andor spinning-disk confocal | Spining-disk confocal microscope Argon/Ion laser With parallel plate rheometry and indentation set-up for live imaging of deformations in mechanical tests |
Leica TCS SP5X | Confocal laser scanning microscope Two-photon laser scanning microscope White-light laser and two-photon laser Live cell imaging with incubation box FLIM with Picoquant extension |
Keyence VHX-500 FE digital zoom microscope | Up to 1000x magnification Free-angle observation system Exceptional depth-of-focus |
Leica DM2000 (2x) | Brightfield and epi-fluorescence microscopes for education |