HERE ARE THE WINNERS!
4TH Annual Microscopy Facility
Image Competition
1/31/08
View all winning images
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Microscopy Facility Overview
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 Morphological
studies are at the heart of understanding tissue architecture, cell structure
and dynamics, as well as molecular function. Light microscopy has been routinely
used to determine spatial and topological information about cells and tissues.
During the last decade, the rapid development of new microscopic instrumentation
and specialized fluorescence probes has made it possible to visualize cellular
events in real time down to the molecular level. |
| The UNM Microscopy
Facility provides users with expert assistance and access to state-of-the
art facilities for multiple fluorescence and transmitted light microscopy
techniques. |
The Facility has three confocal microscopes. The Zeiss LSM 510 Meta system has four excitation lasers (405 nm laser diode; argon: 458,488,514 nm; 543 nm helium neon; and 633 nm helium neon), can collect up to eight fluorescence signals and can separate closely overlapping fluorescence spectra using the Meta detector. The Zeiss LSM 510 and a BioRad Radiance 2100 confocals are each capable of simultaneously exciting and collecting three fluorescence signals as well as a transmitted light, DIC image. Confocal imaging and quantitative analysis can be done on either fixed or living cells.
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Fluorescence ratio-imaging
microscopy and quantitation of ion fluxes in living cells can be performed
on a Till Vision, monochromator-based system.
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Conventional epifluorescence
microscopy and imaging capabilities are available on Zeiss Axioskop
and Axiovert microscopes outfitted with both monochrome (Hamamatsu ORCA)
and color (Zeiss Axiocam) digital cameras as well as an automated 35
mm film camera
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