Welcome to 間眅埶AV's Confocal Microscopy Facility website.
Microscopy equipment
WaveFX spinning disc confocal system (Quorum Technologies)
- Zeiss Axio Observer inverted microscope
- Yokogawa CSU-10 confocal head
- lasers: 441, 491, 561, 647 nm
- objectives: 10X, 25X multi-immersion, 40X oil, 63X oil, 63X water/glycerin, 100X oil
- Hammamatsu 9100 EMCCD camera
- capabilities: FRAP (405 300mW laser); Photoactivation; FRET
- software: Volocity acquisition, quantitation, visualization, deconvolution; FRAP modules; Improvision License Server
- Training and Standard Operating Procedures for WaveFX spinning disc confocal system
Nikon A1R laser scanning confocal system
- Nikon Eclipse Ti inverted microscope
- lasers: 405, 457, 477, 488, 514, 561, 647 nm
- objectives: 10X, 20X multi-immersion, 40X oil, 60X oil
- 4 fluorescent channel PMT detectors and 1 transmitted light PMT detector which can all scan simultaneously
- capabilities: FRAP; photoactivation; FRET; spectral unmixing with spectral detector; hi-speed resonant scanner
- Software: Nikon Elements acquisition software and Nikon Advanced Research analysis software with Autoquant deconvolution module
- Training and Standard Operating Procedures for Nikon A1R laser scanning confocal system
- Appendix to Training and Standard Operating Procedures for Nikon A1R laser scanning confocal system
Funding
This facility has been generously funded by
Microscopy technician
Tim Heslip
trh2@sfu.ca
778-782-6807 office
Mon-Fri 9:30-4:30pm
Location of Facility
The facility is situated in room SSB7145 of the South Science Building ().
Useful Microscopy Resources
- from Invitrogen to plot and compare spectral profiles of different fluorophores
- additional resources:
- for information on the Volocity software
- A1Rsi confocal microscope simple operation manual
Microscopy oversight committee
Please feel free to contact the oversight committee with suggestions for improving the Facility.
Policies
All users, please read carefully.