Equipment Biology Imaging Center (BIC)

Name: Biology Imaging Center (BIC), Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University.

Contact person: Ilya Grigoriev, I.S.Grigoriev@uu.nl

Web-link: http://cellbiology.science.uu.nl/facilities/biology-imaging-center-bic/

 

Overview:

 

List of equipment:

Widefield phase-contrast/DIC microscopy

  • Inverted microscope Nikon TS-100
  • Inverted microscope Nikon Ti “PEX”

 

Widefield fluorescence microscopy

  • Upright fluorescent microscope Nikon Eclipse 80i
  • Upright fluorescent microscope Nikon Eclipse Ni
  • Upright fluorescent microscope Olympus BX53
  • Upright fluorescent microscope Olympus AX70
  • Upright fluorescent microscope Zeiss Axioskop
  • Inverted digital fluorescent microscope EVOS

 

Spinning disc confocal microscopy

  • Two spinning disc microscopes Yokogawa X1 Nikon Ti Roper ILAS FRAP PhotoAblation
  • Spinning disc microscope Nikon Ti Andor Revolution 500

 

Confocal microscopy

  • Confocal microscope Zeiss LSM 5 Pascal
  • Two confocal microscopes Zeiss LSM 700

 

TIRF microscopy

  • TIRF microscope Nikon TE2000 Roper FRAP
  • TIRF microscope Nikon Ti Roper ILAS FRAP/ PhotoAblation
  • TIRF microscope Nikon Ti Roper ILAS-2 FRAP/ PhotoAblation

 

Super-resolution microscopy

  • Confocal AiryScan super-resolution microscope Zeiss LSM 880 fast AiryScan
  • Confocal STED super-resolution microscope Leica SP8 FLIM STED3X
  • Localized microscopy super-resolution Nikon Ti STORM/PALM home made system
  • Localized microscopy super-resolution Nikon Ti STORM/PALM home made system with adaptive optics
  • Localized microscopy super-resolution ONI Nanoimager S microscope

 

2-photon microscopy
(contact person Corette Wierenga, http://cellbiology.science.uu.nl/research-groups/corette-wierenga-synaptic-physiology/)

  • 2-photon microscope Femtonics 2D
  • 2-photon microscope Femtonics 3D
  • Two electrophysiology patch clamp setups

 

The detailed specs of all the systems mentioned above can be found at
http://cellbiology.science.uu.nl/facilities/biology-imaging-center-bic/equipment/