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Specialty Microscopes

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OPT (Optical Projection Tomography)

Current Status:  Fully Operational


Resource Links:

  • OPT Training Manual
  • Microscope location - Room 6.025d
  • Make a Booking

​OPT

Room 6.025d - Custom Microscope Stand with Photometrics Coolsnap HQ2 CCD camera

Custom widefield microscope with Whitelight Mercury lightsource and CCD camera. Suited for imaging large fixed samples in 3D.

Features Include:

  • Fully motorised X-Y-Z stage

Transmitted Light: 100W LED Lamp

Reflected Light:  Exfo Xacte 200W Mercury White Lightsource

Objectives:

Position Objective Magnification N.A. Immersion W.D. (mm) Type Type Thread
1 Plan Apochromat 0.18x 0.04 Dry 50      
2 Plan Apochromat 0.5x 0.1 Dry 45      
3 Plan Apochromat 1x 0.2 Dry 40      

Fluorescent Filter Sets:

Position Name Excitation Dichroic Emission Suitable Dyes
1 DAPI - 5060C 377/50 409LP 447/60 DAPI, Hoechst
2 CFP - 2432C 438/24 458LP 483/32 CFP, Cerulean
3 GFP-3000B 488/10 505LP 530/60 GFP, A488
4 mCherry LP 560/20 580LP 585LP mCherry, Cy3
5   - - -  
6   - - -  

Computer:

Dell PC - 3GHz Xeon Processor - 8GB RAM - 256GB nVidia Quadro GPU

1TB Raid Array

30" LCD Monitor

Software: 

OPTiscan

FLIM/FRET

Current Status:  Fully Operational


Resource Links:

  • FLIM/FRET Training Manual
  • Training Videos
  • Microscope location - Room 2.138
  • Make a Booking​

Room 2.138 - Olympus IX71 - Inverted Microscope Stand with Intensified CCD camera

Inverted widefield microscope with Mercury and LED lightsources and CCD camera. Suited for imaging fixed samples on slides, samples with low fluorescence and live imaging.

Features Include:

  • Manual X-Y-Z stage
  • CO2 and temperature incubation for live cells and tissue
  • Tiled imaging
  • Multi-position imaging

Transmitted Light: 100W Halogen Lamp

Reflected Light:  Olympus Mercury White Lightsource, Lambert LED Lightsource

Objectives:

Position Objective Magnification N.A. Immersion W.D. (mm) Type Type Thread
1 Plan Apochromat 4x 0.5 Dry 2 PhL ADL M27
2 Plan Apochromat 10x 0.75 Dry 0.5 Ph1   M27
3 Plan Apochromat 20x 0.75 Dry 0.4 Ph2 ADL M27
4 Plan Apochromat 40x 0.95 Dry 0.2 DIC I   M27

Fluorescent Filter Sets:

Position Name Excitation Dichroic Emission Suitable Dyes
1 DAPI - 5060C 377/50 409LP 447/60 DAPI, Hoechst
2 CFP - 2432C 438/24 458LP 483/32 CFP, Cerulean
3 GFP-3000B 488/10 505LP 530/60 GFP, A488
4 mCherry LP 560/20 580LP 585LP mCherry, Cy3
5   - - -  
6   - - -  

Computer:

Dell PC - 3GHz Xeon Processor - 8GB RAM - 256GB nVidia Quadro GPU

1TB Raid Array

Dual 27" LCD Monitors

Software: 

Lambert Intruments

Accessories:

Incubation chamber with CO2 and Temperature control

  • Microscopy
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Queensland Facility for Advanced Genome Editing
  • Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics (QFAB)
  • Queensland Emory Drug Discovery Initiative
  • Clive & Vera Ramaciotti Facility for Producing Pharmaceuticals in Plants
  • Centre for Solar Biotechnology Facility
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