UPenn Cell & Developmental Biology
Equipment Details
Zeiss LSM 510 NLO/META Confocal
Deltavision Deconvolution Microscope
FEI Quanta 250 Scanning Electron Microscope
Leica TCS SP8 Confocal
Location: 1-126 Smilow Translational Research Center
List of Features:
- DMI 6000 inverted microscope
- LAS software for acquisition
- Excitation laser lines: 405, 488, 552, 638 nm
- Three spectral detection channels, including a HyD GaAsP detector
- Environmental chamber and motorized x-y stage for live imaging and tiling applications
Zeiss LSM 710 Confocal
Location: 1175A BRB II/III
List of Features:
- Zeiss AxioObserver inverted microscope
- ZEN 2011 software for acquisition
- Excitation laser lines: 405, 458, 488, 514, 561, 594, 633 nm
- Three spectral detection channels, including a 32-channel detector
- Environmental chamber and motorized x-y stage for live imaging and tiling applications
F. M. Kirby Center Zeiss LSM 510 NLO/META 
Location: B-110 Richards Building
List of Features :
- Zeiss Axiovert 200M inverted microscope
- Zeiss AIM software for acquisition
- 2 PMT detectors plus 32-channel META detector
- Tunable Ti-Sapphire laser for multi-photon excitation of DAPI and other dyes.
- Other laser lines: 458, 488, 514, 543, 633
Spinning Disk Confocals 1 & 2
Location: 1175B BRB II/III & 1-126 Smilow Translational Research Center
List of Features:
- Olympus IX71 & IX81 inverted microscopes
- Lasers:
- 442, 488, 523, 561 nm (spinning disk 1)
- 405, 488, 561 nm (spinning disk 2)
- Cameras:
- Hamamatsu ImagEM EMCCD camera (spinning disk 1)
- Andor iXon3 EMCCD camera (spinning disk 2)
- Motorized x-y stage for multi-point acquisition
- Computer-controlled ablation laser for FRAP or photoactivation (both systems)
- Stagetop environmental chamber (both systems)
- MetaMorph acquisition software (both systems)
Deltavision Deconvolution Station
Location: 1175C BRB II/III
List of Features:
- Olympus IX70 inverted microscope
- Photometrics CoolSnap HQ high-resolution CCD camera
- Applied Precision x-y-z precision motorized stage for multi-point acquisition of image stacks
- Software-controlled filter wheels with DAPI, FITC, TRITC, Cy5, CFP, YFP filter set
- Phase contrast & DIC available
- Environmental chamber surrounding entire microscope for temperature and CO2 control
- Deltavision Softworx software for acquisition and processing.
FEI Quanta 250 Scannning Electron Microscope
Location: 1175D BRB II/III
List of Features:
- Available for assisted sessions only
Leica Widefield Microscope
Location: 1175D BRB II/III
List of Features:
- Leica DMRBE upright microscope with halogen and mercury arc lamps
- QImaging MicroPublisher 5.0 MP high resolution color CCD camera
- iVision for Mac acquisition software
- phase contrast, DIC, and polarized light transmitted light options
- Filter sets for standard 3-color fluorescence imaging (DAPI, FITC, TRITC)
Zeiss Widefield Microscope
Location: B-110 Richards
List of Features:
- Zeiss Axioplan upright microscope with Zeiss FluoArc mercury lamp
- Zeiss AxioCam HRm high-resolution monochrome CCD camera
- AxioVision 4.5 software for acquisition and analysis
- Filter sets for standard 4-color imaging (DAPI, FITC, TRITC, Cy5); also CFP and YFP filter sets
Image Processing Computers
Location: 1110 & 1111 BRB II/III
Use of the workstations in room 1005 is on a first-come, first-served basis.
iMac Core Workstation (Mac OS 10.6.x)
27-inch iMac with 3.1 GHz Quad-Core Intel i5 processor + AMD Radeon HD graphics processor: perfect for those large multidimensional data sets!
- Volocity 6, sophisiticated software for visualization, deconvolution, and quantitative analysis of 3- and 4-dimensional image data. (Mac and Windows)
- Fiji (Fiji Is Just ImageJ)
Windows 7 Workstations
- Volocity 6
- MetaMorph Premier (powerful quantitative analysis software for 2D/3D image sets. Accommodates most file formats. Contact Andrea to be added to the user list.)
- Fiji (Fiji Is Just ImageJ)
- GIMP (open-source substitute for Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator)
- OpenOffice (substitute for Microsoft Office)
Deltavision Workstation (Linux)
Full version of SoftWoRx, Deltavision's processing and deconvolution software, used primarily for post-acquisition processing of images acquired on the Deltavision Widefield imaging station.