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Available Microscope Systems
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If you want to consult our system list directly, you will find the list scrolling down.
Please contact us for a project discussion at imcfunibasch in order to discuss your research project with our microscopy experts.
If you need a very special technique that we can not offer (e.g. MINFLUX), you can also reach out to our collegues of the Microscopy Network Basel (MNB). Please make sure to keep us in the loop such that we can still help you with data analysis and data managment.
List of Microscopes
| Microscope type and name | Inverted | Incubation | Special features(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Point Scanning Confocal | |||
| Leica "SP8" (BSL2) | yes | yes | Hybrid detectors, BSL2 |
| Leica "Stellaris 8 FALCON with STED" | yes | yes | Suitable for FLIM and STED, equipped with 4 HyDs, pulsed White Light Laser and STED laser |
| Zeiss "LSM700 Upright" | no | no | Upright, 2x PMT and 1x T-PMT |
| Zeiss "LSM800 Inverted" | yes | no | 2x GaAsP-detectors, Zen Blue 2.6 |
| Zeiss "LSM880 Inverted" | yes | yes | fast scanning with AiryScanFAST, high resolution with AiryScanSR technology |
| Widefield Microscope | |||
| API "DeltaVision Core" | yes | yes | very sensitive live-cell system |
| Nikon Ti2 "seqFISH" | yes | yes | large field of view, sensitive sCMOS camera, strong laser for bleaching |
| FEI "MORE" | yes | yes | our fastest live-cell system with TIRF and FRAP |
| Leica "DM6000B" | no | no | color camera |
| Spinning Disk Confocal | |||
| Olympus SpinSR | yes | yes | Yokogawa CSU-W1, highly sensitive sCMOS camera, fast, thick sample imaging possible |
| Olympus SpinD | yes | no | Yokogawa CSU-W1, highly sensitive sCMOS camera, fast, thick sample imaging possible |
| Nikon CSU-W1 | yes | yes | Yokogawa CSU-W1, highly sensitive sCMOS camera, fast, optimized for live samples, BSL2 |
| SIM Super-Resolution | |||
| API "OMX Blaze" | yes | yes | structured illumination and localization based super-resolution |
| Lightsheet Microscope (SPIM) | |||
| Zeiss "Lightsheet 7" | yes | selective plain illumination microscopy (SPIM) | |
| "Benchtop mesoSPIM" | no | mesoscale selective plane illumination microscopy (mesoSPIM) | |
| Slidescanner | |||
| Zeiss Axio Scan.Z1 "Slide Scanner" | no | no | fully automated, highthroughput scanning of up to 100 slides |
| Spatial Transcriptomics | |||
| Vizgen MERSCOPE | yes | no | Microfluidics and flow chamber for MERFISH, automated and powerful image processing |
| Microscopes at other facilities in Basel (MNB) | |||
| DBM Microscopy Core Facility | Microscopy Core Facilities of the Department of Biomedicine | ||
| DBSSE Single Cell Unit, | Microscopy and FACS Facilities of the Department of Biosystems Sciense and Engineering | ||
| FMI FAIM | Microscopy Facility of the Friedrich Miescher Institute |