The Advanced Light Imaging facility has a wide range of instruments and technologies to facilitate the Toxicology Unit’s Research. Comprehensive training and on-going support on all instruments and technologies within the facility is provided by Dr. Lucia Piñon P. Giraldez. There are also software packages for the processing and analysis of light-captured images. The facility is equipped with top of the range instruments including, 3 laser scanning confocal microscopes, a spinning disk confocal, two live imaging systems, a high content imaging system and a number of widefield microscopes.
Instruments available
Confocal Zeiss LSM 980 multiphoton inverted with AiryScan2
Confocal Zeiss LSM 880 inverted with Airyscan
3i Spinning Disk confocal inverted microscope (with UV Ablate laser)
Zeiss Axio Observer 7 with high-speed calcium imaging
Laser microdissection Zeiss PALM Microbeam Microscope
Confocal Zeiss LSM 510 with multiphoton
Zeiss Elyra7 super-resolution microscope
Image analysis workstations with leading software packages
Zen Blue and Intellesis
Volocity software
FlowJo in two analysis computers
FCS Express
Live Imaging
IncuCyte (Sartorious)
xCELLigence
HepG2 cells (Mitochondria ATP5B)
