Dear microscopists,

as announced earlier, we continue the demonstration and testing of microscopes for the L-Block in Hammersmith next week with the Zeiss widefield system. The system will come with a full incubation chamber, various cameras, LED illumination for fast switching and motorised stage. As an optional extra, which is probably beyond our current financial limits, but might be an interesting add-on later, they will probably also bring a Vivatome system, which offers fast, near-confocal imaging similar to a spinning disc, but based on a different principle (see <http://zeiss-campus.magnet.fsu.edu/tutorials/opticalsectioning/vivatomeopticaltrain/index.html> for details.

The Zeiss system will be available in room SAFB-530 (Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus) from Tuesday 18 to Thursday 20 October 2011 all day, please book your time slot for testing by replying to this email.

And as an introduction, this Friday, 14 October 2011, 15.00 in the seminar room SAFB-120 Zeiss will give an overview of their widefield and confocal systems, including explanations of the confocal GaAsp detectors, meta scan head, Vivatome, LED illumination etc.

And the next demonstrations will be the Leica systems. The Leica confocal SP5 demonstration (with sensitive Hybrid detectors) will be in the week from 31 Oct 2011, the Leica widefield demonstration is not yet fixed.

Please come along for testing, good imaging,

Martin

Martin Spitaler, PhD

FILM - Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy
- Facility Manager -
Sir Alexander Fleming Building, desk 401
Imperial College London / South Kensington
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ
UK

Tel. +44-(0)20-759-42023
E-mail m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk
Website: http://imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility