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News

Now Available New Super Resolution Confocal Microscope

The Bacterial Imaging Cluster platform is happy to announce that the new confocal laser scanning microscope with super resolution, the Zeiss LSM 880 with Airyscan, is now ready to use! 

Zeiss LSM 880 is an inverted confocal laser scanning microscope with Airyscan, a new detector concept featuring a 32 channel GaAsP-PMT area detector. The Airyscan detector thus brings forward simultaneous improvements in spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio in comparison with conventional confocal microscopy. This allows the LSM 880 to resolve small structures up to 120 nm (XY) and 350 nm (Z) even in thick samples.

The introduction of a Fast module for the Airyscan offers a satisfactory compromise between perfect optical sections and live cell imaging experiments. The Fast Airyscan mode reduces photo-bleaching and allows acquisition speeds of up to 19 frames per second at 512 x 512-pixel image resolution.

The LSM 880 with Airyscan highlights the needs of your research for quantitative data in live cell experiments at superior resolutions.

Please contact Mariana Ferreira for training and any questions regarding the system.

Courses

Super-Resolution Microscopy Workshop - iMM-JLA

September 4-5, 2019 | iMM – Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes
Registration deadline: August 24, 2019

Super-resolution microscopy represents a group of recent techniques that can break the diffraction-limited resolution barrier (less than 200 nm). This workshop will introduce the principles and present the most recent advances of super-resolution microscopy, focusing on structured illumination microscopy (SIM). The workshop is designed for cell biologists with prior experience in light microscopy that are interested in using super-resolution for their research. It will consist of lectures focusing on the theoretical understanding of super-resolution microscopy and practical hands-on sessions in the microscopes where participants will learn how to correctly set-up and acquire super-resolved images. The workshop will feature the new Zeiss Elyra 7 with Lattice SIM and will include time to image participants samples.

The workshop is open and free of charge to all CAML members and external participants.
The hands-on component of the workshop is limited to 20 participants (selection based on workshop application letter).

Speakers:
Davide Accardi - Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Georg Wieser - Carl Zeiss Microscopy
José Rino - iMM - Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes
Pedro Pereira - ITQB-NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier
Telmo Pereira - CEDOC - Chronic Diseases Research Center - Nova Medical School

For more information and registration link:
https://imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt/facility/bioimaging/doku.php?id=super-resolution_workshop
Contact: imm-bioimaging@medicina.ulisboa.pt