Microscopy Facility
Fluorescence Microscopy
The facility houses five wide-field fluorescence microscopes.
- Olympus BX51 fluorescence microscope equipped with UV, FITC, TRITC, and FITC+Texas Red filtersets, 2x, 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x, and 60x objective lenses, a Prior Proscan XY motorized stage, a Heidenhain microcator, an Olympus OLY-750 color CCD camera, and an Optronics Magnafire camera
- Nikon ECLIPSE E800M fluorescence microscope equipped with UV, FITC, TRITC, GFP and FITC+TRITC filtersets, 0.5x, 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x, and 100x objective lenses, and a Diagnostic Instruments Spot RT CCD camera
- Zeiss AxioObserver (associated with the Atomic Force/Scanning Probe microscope)
- Olympus IX81 (associated with the TIRF microscope)
- Zeiss Axiovert 40 (associated with the microdissection system)
