Imaging Core Facility

Image Gallery

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Transgenic Drosophila wing imaginal disc carrying patches of ectopic Decapentaplegic. It is expressing dad-GFP (red), and was stained for Wingless (green) and Cubitus interruptus (blue). Acquired at the SP5 MP confocal, F. Hamaratoglu.

C. elegans larvae stained with Hoechst (DNA, blue), AJM-1::GFP (Apical Junction Molecule-1, epithelial cell-cell junction, green) and ajm-1-atto 647 (Apical Junction molecule-1, smFISH, red) Sample by Poulomi Ray (Mango lab), acquired by Alexia Ferrand and Max Gorelashvili on a Zeiss Elyra 7 Lattice SIM, 63x Oil.

Centrosome, stained with distal (green), proximal (cyan) and wall (purple) components of the centrioles. Multi-z projection, acquired at the OMX 3D-SIM super-resolution microscope, A-M. Gabryjonczyk and A. Ferrand.

Rotifer specimen collected in the Basel Botanical garden, stained with Phalloidin 488. Tiles acquired at the LSM700 Inverted confocal and reconstructed using the XuvTools stitching software, A. Ferrand.

Movie of a Vibrio cholerae strain expressing VipA-sfGFP (Type VI secretion system component, Fire LUT). Images were taken every 5 seconds for a total of 5 min. Andrea Vettiger (Basler lab), acquired by Alexia Ferrand on a GE Healthcare OMX Blaze, with a 60x Oil objective.

Embryonic chicken limb stained with MF20 AF488 (myosin heavy chain, muscles in green) and NF200 Cy3 (neurofilament, nerves in red) at day 9 of development. Maeva Luxey, Bianka Berki (Tschopp Lab) imaged by Alexia Ferrand with ZEISS Z.1 lightsheet microscope, 5X air.

Mitotic HeLa cell, stained with DAPI (grey), and two kinetochore components: Hec1 (purple) and ACA (green). Deconvolved multi-z projection, acquired at the DeltaVision Widefield microscope, A. Ferrand.

Video of developing blood vessels in a zebrafish embryo. Endothelial cells are the building components of the blood vessels and the ìlarge branched structureî is a subset of blood vessels (endothelial cell bodies) while the "crawling structuresî are the nuclei of these endothelial cells. With the confocal we can image individual cells and follow their behaviour within a developing tissue - single cell analysis on a tissue level. Maria Kotini, (Affolter lab), Zeiss LSM880, 25x Oil

Overview tile scan and high resolution tile scan of the subventricular stem cell zone (SVZ) in a gfap-CreERT2;Tomato transgenic mouse brain (parenchymal astrocytes, neural stem cells and their progeny, in red) stained with DAPI (DNA, blue) and GFAP (astrocytes, white). Fabrizio Favaloro (Doetsch lab), acquired by Alexia Ferrand on a Zeiss LSM800, with a 5x (fast overview tile scan) and a 40x Oil (high-resolution tile scan).

Mounted Drosophila brain, GFP enhancer trap, with intensity color-coding. Acquired at the SP5 MP confocal, M. Metzler.

Mitotic HeLa cell, stained with Pericentrin (centrosome, red), ACA (kinetochore, purple) and A-Tubulin (microtubule, green). Deconvolved multi-z projection, acquired at the DeltaVision Widefield microscope, A. Ferrand.