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Light Microscopy

After being trained on how to operate the instrument best suited to their needs, users will be allowed to image their specimens with ongoing support from the staff. The light microscopy branch of the MIC operates several high-end confocal microscopes, each optimized for certain applications:

Point Scanning Confocals

Zeiss LSM 800 microscope.
Zeiss LSM 780 microscope.
Zeiss LSM 880 Airy microscope.
Zeiss 980 Airy microscope.
Leica Stellaris STD / FLIM microscope.

Spinning Disk / TIRF / STORM

Nikon Spinning Disk microscope.

Wide-Field Microscopes

Zeiss Wide-Field microscope.
Zeiss Axioscan Z1 microscope.
Zeiss Wide-Field microscope.
Zeiss Stereo Microscope microscope.
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