Instruments & Services
Andor TIRF & CSU-X1 SDC
Specifications
- 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
Applications
- High Speed, Delicate Confocal Microscopy
- High Contrast Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF)
- Simultaneous dual-channel imaging
- Live Cell Imaging