Microscopy Facility

• Lattice light sheet imaging and image processing

• Fluorescence lifetime imaging and image processing

• STED imaging

• Ongoing image analysis training workshops

• Confocal Microscopes

  • Leica STED 3X Super Resolution Microscope and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy

  • Zeiss LSM 880 Confocal with Fast Airyscan Detector

  • Zeiss LSM 710 Confocal Upright

  • Zeiss LSM 710 Confocal and multiphoton with Airyscan

  • Zeiss LSM 710 Confocal with GaAsP detectors

  • Andor Dragonfly Spinning Disc Confocal with TIRF

  • Zeiss Spinning Disc Confocal

• Deconvolution microscopes

  • Lattice Lightsheet Microscope

  • Deltavision

  • Nikon Deconvolution

• Widefield microscopes

  • Brightfield/Darkfield

  • Fluoro 5 Olympus BX51

  • Fluoro 1 Olyupus BX51 Upright

  • Fluoro 2 Zeiss Axioimages Upright

  • Fluoro 3 Olympus IX80 Inverted

  • Fluoro 4 Nikon Ti-U Inverted

• Stereo microscopes

  • Stereo 1 Olympus SZX12

  • Stereo 2 Nikon SMZ18

  • Stereo 3 Nikon SMZ1500

• Specialty microscopes

  • Optical Projections Tomography

  • FLIM/FRET

• Image analysis

  • Virtual Machine

    • 4 machines that each have up to 1.5TB of RAM and 3 GPUs for rapid image analysis

  • Analysis Programs

    • FIJI

    • Imaris

    • Microvolution

    • Huygens professional

    • Arivis

    • Amira

    • FLIMfit

    • LASX

    • Zen Blue

    • Zen Black

    • NIS Elements Viewer

    • TeraStitcher

    • XuvStitch

    • ImarisStitcher

• Resources

  • Connectivity for IMB users
  • General Information
  • Sample Prep
  • Image Capture
  • Image Analysis
  • Visualisation
  • Structured Training

More information

• James Springfield​

  • Microscope development, hardware optimization
  • Brightfield and mullti-channel fluorescence microscopy
  • Confocal laser scanning microscopy
  • Rapid, live-cell 3D imaging using spinning disk confocal
  • 2-photon confocal imaging for tissue imaging and micro-ablation experiments
  • Rapid-acquisition live imaging for intracellular processes and live embryo imaging
  • High-throughput imaging and analysis of fluorescence in multi-well plates and dishes

• Nicholas Condon​

  • Lattice Light Sheet microscopy and image processing
  • Brightfield and mullti-channel fluorescence microscopy
  • Confocal laser scanning microscopy
  • Rapid, live-cell 3D imaging using spinning disk confocal
  • 2-photon confocal imaging for tissue imaging and micro-ablation experiments
  • Rapid-acquisition live imaging for intracellular processes and live embryo imaging
  • Image processing and analysis including automation in ImageJ/FIJI

• Deborah Barkauskas

  • Fluorescence lifetime imaging FLIM and analysis
  • Brightfield and mullti-channel fluorescence microscopy
  • Confocal laser scanning microscopy
  • Rapid, live-cell 3D imaging using spinning disk confocal
  • 2-photon confocal imaging for intravital tissue imaging and dynamic analysis
  • Image processing and analysis including automation in ImageJ/FIJI
  • Image processing and analysis using Python and Matlab

• Alpha Yap

• Jenny Stow

• Paul Alewood

• Chandima Ekanayake

• Brett Collins

• Mark Cooper

• David Craik

• David Fairlie

• James Fraser

• Frederic Gachon

• Emma Gordon

• Ben Hankamer

• Nick Hamilton

• Ian Henderson

• Glenn King

• Anne Lagendijk

• Richard Lewis

• Nina Mitter

• Quan Nguyen

• Nathan Palpant

• Rob Parton

• Kate Schroder

• Matt Sweet

• Brandon Wainwright