Our Microscopes
The imaging facility houses state-of-the-art microscopes specifically designed for fluorescence imaging ranging from widefield and confocal fluorescence systems, lightsheet, bespoke and commercial super-resolution systems to electron microscopes.
Widefield and Confocal Systems
DeltaVision Elite
DeltaVision Core with EMCCD (Yoyo)
DeltaVision Core Zippy
New Biochemistry Room 00-030
An inverted widefield fluorescence system with EMCCD camera equipped for live-cell imaging (temperature & CO2 control).
DeltaVision Core Zippy
DeltaVision Core with EMCCD (Yoyo)
DeltaVision Core Zippy
New Biochemistry Room 00-030
An inverted widefield fluorescence system with a CCD camera
DeltaVision Core with EMCCD (Yoyo)
DeltaVision Core with EMCCD (Yoyo)
DeltaVision Core with EMCCD (Yoyo)
New Biochemistry Room 00 - 030
An inverted widefield fluorescence system with an EMCCD camera
PerkinELmer Spinning Disc 1 (SD1)
PerkinELmer Spinning Disc 1 (SD1)
DeltaVision Core with EMCCD (Yoyo)
New Biochemistry Room 00-030
An Ultraview spinning disc system equipped with an environmental chamber for live-cell imaging (temperature & CO2 control). Suitable for both live and fixed samples.
PerkinELmer Spinning Disc 2 (SD2)
PerkinELmer Spinning Disc 1 (SD1)
PerkinELmer Spinning Disc 2 (SD2)
New Biochemistry Room 00-030
An Ultraview spinning disc system equipped equipped for live-cell imaging. Suitable for both live and fixed samples.
Olympus FV1000
PerkinELmer Spinning Disc 1 (SD1)
PerkinELmer Spinning Disc 2 (SD2)
Dunn School of Pathology Room 214.00.25
Olympus FV1000 Laser Scanning Microscope with Becker and Hickel FLIM system.
Olympus FV1200
Zeiss LSM780 inverted
Olympus FV1200
Dunn School of Pathology Room 214.00.25
This microscope is equipped with Sensitvie GASP detectors, a 355nm DNA damage laser and an environmental chamber for live cell work.
Olympus FV3000
Zeiss LSM780 inverted
Olympus FV1200
New Biochemistry Room 00-030
A high-speed, laser scanning confocal capable of high-quality imaging deep in tissues and super-resolution.
Zeiss LSM780 inverted
Zeiss LSM780 inverted
Zeiss LSM880 Airyscan inverted
New Biochemistry Room 50-059a
The Zeiss 780 is an inverted laser scanning confocal microscope equipped for live-cell imaging (temperature & CO2 control).
Zeiss LSM880 Airyscan inverted
Zeiss LSM880 Airyscan Fast upright
Zeiss LSM880 Airyscan inverted
Dunn School of Pathology Room 214.00.33
A Zeiss 880 laser scanning confocal fitted with an Airyscan detector capable of super-resolution
Zeiss LSM880 Airyscan Fast upright
Zeiss LSM880 Airyscan Fast upright
Zeiss LSM880 Airyscan Fast upright
New Biochemistry Room 00-060
A Zeiss 880 laser scanning confocal fitted with an Airyscan detector capable of super-resolution
Lightsheet System
Zeiss Z1 Lightsheet
New Biochemistry Room 00-060
This is a commercial lightsheet microscope designed primarily for time-lapse imaging of thick specimens.
Super-Resolution Systems
DeltaVision OMX V2
DeltaVision OMX V2
DeltaVision OMX V2
New Biochemistry Room 00-056
The OMX V2 is a cutting-edge fluorescent structured-illumination microscope.
DeltaVision OMX V3
DeltaVision OMX V2
DeltaVision OMX V2
New Biochemistry Room 00-057
The OMX V3 BLAZE is a 'turn-key' microscope for very rapid widefield imaging or super-resolution imaging of fixed and live samples.
PALM/TIRF
DeltaVision OMX V2
Nanoimager
New Biochemistry Room 00-060
Bespoke super-resolution localisation microscope.
Nanoimager
Cryo-3D-SIM
Nanoimager
New Biochemistry Room 00-058
The Nanoimager is a compact, bench top super-resolution microscope.
DeepSIM
Cryo-3D-SIM
Cryo-3D-SIM
New Biochemistry Room 00-031
A super-resolution system that will allow specimens to be manipulated for electrophysiology and/or chemical treatments while being imaged.
Cryo-3D-SIM
Cryo-3D-SIM
Cryo-3D-SIM
New Biochemistry Room 00-054
OMX-T cyro SIM/STORM system developed in Micron as part of our research programme.
Electron Microscopes
The electron microscope facility is managed by Dr. Errin Johnson. We have three electron microscopes housed in the Dunn School that are available for use. They are
- Philips Technai 12 electron microscope
- Scanning JOEL JSM-6390 EM
- Zeiss 3View
For further information or to enquire about training on the electron microscopes please click here