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Instruments & Services

Contact

Name: Philip Wedegaertner, PhD
Position: Co-Director
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Name: Claudio Giraudo, PhD
Position: Co-Director
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Name: Jason Hill, PhD
Position: Associate Director
Name: James Muller, PhD
Position: Facility Manager
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Andor TIRF & CSU-X1 SDC

  • Nikon TiE inverted microscope
  • Motorized XY stage (Ludl) and Z focus drive with Perfect Focus System
  • Piezo Z drive for fast Z stacks
  • 100x/1.49 NA TIRF objective
  • Motorized, Dual-Channel TIRF
  • Nikon TIRF E Motorized Illuminator
  • Andor Ion X3 EM-CCD camera
  • Dual-view2 camera splitter with Green/Red emission set
  • Dual Channel Spinning Disk Confocal
  • Yokogawa CSU-X1 SDC
  • Hamamatsu Fusion sCMOS camera
  • Gemini camera splitter with Green/Red emission set
  • Andor FRAPPA unit for photobleaching and photoactivation  
  • Light Sources
  • Andor laser launch with four (4) excitation laser lines (405, 488, 561 and 640 nm - 100mW each)
  • Sutter Lambda DG4-Plus illuminator
  • Halogen transmitted light with DIC
  • MetaMorph Premier image acquisition and analysis software
  • Okolab stage-top incubator (35 mm dishes, 6-well plates, and 1" x 3" chamber slides)
  • Anti-vibration air table

  • High Speed, Delicate Confocal Microscopy
  • High Contrast Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF)
  • Simultaneous dual-channel imaging
  • Live Cell Imaging