Red Española de Microscopía Óptica Avanzada
Leica Laser Scanning Confocal TCS-SP5 Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope
 
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia de Cantabria - IBBTEC - Servicio de Microscopia Optica Avanzada IBBTEC
 
Lab contact
 
 
Institutions:
  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
  • Universidad de Cantabria (UniCan)
Center:
  • Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia de Cantabria - IBBTEC
 
Address
Parque Cientifico y Tecnologico de Cantabria (PCTCAN).
39011, Santander, Cantabria.
 
 
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Lab members
 
 
Victor Manuel Campa
Maria Angeles Ros Lasierra
 
 
 
Equipment description
 
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (CLSM) LEICA TCS SP5 fitted with nine excitation lines (405, 458, 476, 488, 496, 514, 543, 594 and 633 nm) from UV-Diode, Ar and HeNe lasers and AOTF (Acousto-Optical Tunable Filter) – AOBS (Acousto-Optical Beam Splitter) System.
 
Other info
 
Equiped with temperature and C02 controled enviroment for live-cell experiments.
Motorized stage allows to mark and memorize multiple positions and to perform tile-scans.
Posible to adquire simultaneusly fluorescence and transmited light. Up to 4 PMT (3 fluorescence + 1 DIC).
Suited for mulilabeling experiments, FRET and FRAT.
 
Technologies for this equipment
 
Brightfield & other Transmission Microscopy Contrasts
 
Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy
 
Image Analysis/ Software
 
FRET- Förster Resonance Energy Transfer
 
Image Analysis
 
Live Cell Imaging
 
Photobleaching Techniques/ FRAP-Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching