Microscopy

Light and fluorescence microscopy

The Olympus IX81 and the Nikon Eclipse Ti2n are fully automated inverted microscopes for light and fluorescence microscopy. Both microscopes are equipped with motorized microscopy stages, the most common laser lines for fluorescence microscopy, a focus-hold system for stable long-term experiments, a FRAP module (fluorescence recovery after photobleaching) for kinetic live cell studies, a TIRF module (total internal reflection fluorescence) for selective fluorophore excitation in the cell membrane and high-resolution cameras. Thanks to their high-end equipment, these microscopy setups can therefore be used for a wide range of applications in cell and molecular biology.

Technical data

Motorized microscopy stage | 405, 488, 515, 561, 640 nm laser lines | Focus-hold system | FRAP module | TIRF module | Spinning-disk confocal unit (IX2-DSU) | Differential interference contrast (DIK) | Temperature and CO2 chamber | Mercury vapor lamp