The Keith Porter Imaging Facility in room 324 of the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences building houses the following instrumentation:
ZEISS LSM 900 confocal
The ZEISS LSM 900 Confocal with Airyscan 2 is a super-resolution confocal laser scanning microscope. The inverted Axio Observer 7 microscope includes a motorized stage that allows tiling, capture of multiple data points during time-lapse experiments and a built-in environmental chamber with heat, CO2 and O2 control. More information on the configuration and specifications.
ZEISS Axio Zoom
The ZEISS Axio Zoom microscope.V16 is fluorescence on-axis zoom microscope with magnification from 7x-112x. It is equipped with a monochromatic Axiocam 506 camera. Filters include DAPI, GFP and DsRed.
Image processing and analysis computer
The Keith Porter Imaging Facility offers state-of-the-art image processing and analysis capabilities including a custom-built workstation with Imaris (Oxford) for 3D and 4D analysis, Huygens Essential (SVI) deconvolution software, as well as assistance with Fiji/ImageJ. Use of the image analysis software is provided free of charge.