Molecular and Cellular Imaging Equipment
Ancillary
The Denton DCP-1 is a Critical Point Dryer for preparing SEM samples.
The Denton Desk V TSC is a high resolution unit suitable for oxidizing and non-oxidizing metals.
The Leica EM HPM100 High Pressure Freezer is used for freezing aqueous specimens
Electron Microscopes
A versatile, high-performance instrument with three modes (high vacuum, low vacuum and ESEM) to image a wide range of samples, with or without preparation.
A 200kV field emission TEM that is used for cryo-temperature, low dose operation and atomic resolution.
Includes an Edax Sapphire x-ray detector and a top mount SIS/Olympus Morada 11 megapixel CCD camera
Optical Microscopes
An upright Leica DM RE microscope connected to a Leica TCS SP2 system with 3 different visible light lasers, covering 6 excitation wavelengths.
An upright Leica DM 6000B microscope connected to a Leica TCS SP5 system with 8 visible laser excitations and a Radius 405 nm laser.
Image acquisition with Volocity for regular confocal imaging and with MetaMorph for Super-resolution.
An upright Leica DM 5000B connected to a Hamamatsu Orca-Flash4.0 digital camera and Volocity™ imaging software.
An inverted Zeiss microscope connected to a Hamamatsu Orca-R2 digital camera and Volocity™ imaging software.