Confocal Microscope

Room D-124, Multi-Tenant Facility

Oakdale Campus

• Based on a Zeiss 100M inverted light microscope
• Argon laser
• 2 Helium neon lasers
  • Wavelengths: 458, 488, 514, 543, 633 nm
• Objective Lenses:
  • 5x
  • 10x
  • 40x water
  • 63x water
  • 100x oil
• Fluorescence Filters:
  • FITC
  • CFP
  • Rhodamine
• Digital Image Capture
  • 128 x 128 frame size to 2048 x 2048 frame size (8 or 12 bit)
• Programmable heating stage accepting cells cultured on 25 mm round glass coverslips
• Data Storage
  • Zip Disk
  • CD
  • College of Medicine Network
• Separate workstation for data manipulation and extensive off-line analysis