SERVICES
Zeiss Axio Imager2 with Apotome microscope is an upright with an Axio Cam MrC5 color camera and a Roper/Photometrics CoolSnap HQ2 monochrome camera for fluorescence. Filter cubes installed are:
Filter Set 49 DAPI,EX G365
Filter Set 38 HE GFP, FITC
Filter Set 43 HE Cy3
Filter Set 64 HE mPlum
Filter Set 50 Cy5, EX BP640/30
The microscope can be used in widefield or Apotome structured illumination mode which provides reduced background and moderate optical sectioning capability. The system uses Axiovision 4.8 software. The installed lenses are: EC Plan-Neofluar 5x/0.16, EC Plan-Neofluar 10x/0.30, Plan-Apochromat 20x/0.8, EC Plan-Neofluar 40x/1.3 DIC. The stage is manually operated.