Imaging Center Equipment
About Our Equipment
Abberior FACILITY Line 3-D STED (STimulated Emission Depletion) Microscope
- Better than 20 nm lateral resolution, 50 nm axial resolution.
- Compatible with fixed and live samples.
- FLIM (Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy) allows separations of multiple dyes and allows other insights into samples.
- Equipped with 20x, 40x, and 60x objectives.
Purchased with New York State grant funding (Empire State Development Fund).
Zeiss LSM 980 with AiryScan 2 inverted LSM
- Fast, gentle, 3-D and timelapse live-cell super-resolution confocal imaging with 100 nm lateral and 200 nm axial resolution.
- Temperature and CO2 incubated imaging chamber.
- Inverted 3-D confocal microscopy with spectral unmixing to image and many (>8) color channels.
- Photoactivation, photobleaching, and other optical manipulations in live cells.
- Tiled imaging for high-resolution 3-D confocal imaging of tissue sections and mm-scale samples with many color channels.
- Equipped with 10x, 20x, 40x, 63x, and 100x objectives.
ONI Nanoimager S SMLM
- Super-resolution and single-molecule localization microscope (SMLM).
- 3-D, 3-channel single-molecule imaging -20 nm XY -60 nm Z
- dSTORM, DNApaint, PALM, smTracking.
- Equipped with a 100x objective.
Zeiss Axio Examiner.Z1 2-photon LSM
- NLO LSM upright confocal microscope with a mks Spectra-Physics Insight 3 two-photon laser.
- Two-photon laser scanning microscope to image into thick tissue samples and live animal models.
- Equipped with 10x and 20x objectives.
BRUKER NanoString CosMx SMI (Spatial Multiomics Imager)
- Highest commercial plex RNA (1,000-plex) and highest plex protein (>100-plex).
- Analyze RNA and protein with any sample type (FFPE, fresh frozen, organoid).
- High-resolution: Subcellular with 3-D resolution.
- End-to-end platform with multi-site reproducibility.
- Complete cloud solution: Image-share/collaborate, multi-data types, scalable computing.
Zeiss Axio Observer with Apotome 2 for SIM
- Widefield fluorescence microscope.
- Tiled imaging for high-resolution 3-D confocal imaging of tissue sections and mm-scale samples with many color channels.
- Equipped with 5x, 10x, 20x, and 63x objectives.
Zeiss Axio Scan.Z1
- Automated slide scanner for tissue section imaging with brightfield (pathology stains) and immunofluorescence with automatic imaging of 100 slides at a time.
- Equipped with objectives for 5x, 10x, 20x, and 40x magnification
Nikon C2 confocal LSM
- Upright confocal laser scanning microscope with AI-based super-resolution deconvolution software.
- Equipped with 10x, 20x, 40x, and 60x objectives.
Bio-Techne Namocell Pala Cell Sorter
- Low pressure, microfluidics-based cell sorter for single-cell analysis.
- Small footprint.
- Gene therapy.
- Single-cell transcriptomics.
- Cell lines, primary cells, nuclei, bacteria, yeast, virus, EVs.
Image Analysis Facilities
- Comet ORS Dragonfly Workstations
- Custom Lume SMLM Software
- MBF Stereoinvestigator Desktop