Microscopes in Health Sciences Research Buildings I, II


Zeiss AxioScan 7 | upright widefield slide scanner | HSRBII


  • Upright widefield slide scanner
  • 7 wavelength Colibri LED light source (385, 430, 475, 511, 555, 590, 630, 735nm)
  • Color and monochrome cameras for brightfield, TIE contrast, and fluorescent imaging
  • Automated sample detection and imaging
Zeiss Axioscan 7

BioTek Lionheart LX | inverted widefield | HSRB I


  • Automated widefield imaging system
  • Six filtercubes: DAPI, CFP, GFP, YFP, Texas Red, Cy5
  • Fluorescence, bright field, color bright field, phase 
  • Reads slides, dishes, and 6 - 1536 well plates
BioTek Lionheart LX

Leica STELLARIS 8 | inverted confocal | HSRB II


  • Point scanning inverted confocal
  • Galvano and resonant scanners
  • 5 detectors: 3 Power HyD-S and 2 Power HyD-X
  • Tokai Hit stage top incubator for CO2 and temperature control
  • Whitlight lasers, 440-790
  • Navigator software for tiling
  • TauSense for FLIM
  • LIGHTNING for optimal extraction of image details and maximum resolution
  • Software option includes Aivia
Leica STELLARIS 8

Leica Thunder | inverted wide field | HSRB II


  • fully motorized DMi8 microscope
  • highly sensitive K8 camera
  • multi-line, high-intensity fluorescence LED light source
  • Live cell imaging with a Tokai Hit stage top incubator
  • Computational clearing to minimize out of focus blur 
Leica Thunder Widefield

Miltenyi Blaze LFOV Lightsheet |HSRB II


Super resolution achieved through the clearing of tissue, organs or small animals allowing for complete 3D mapping at single cell resolution​.

Miltenyi UltraMicroscope Blaze LFOV Lightsheet

Nikon SoRa Spinning Disk | inverted | HSRB I


  • Fast and gentle spinning disk confocal
  • two disks, one for confocal, one for super resolution
  • easy switch between the two disks
  • Four laser lines [nm]: 385, 475, 550, and 621
  • Z-stacks, timelapse, multi-point imaging, tiling
  • Live-cell imaging with stage top incubator
Nikon SoRa