FLIM microscope in operation
Our new FLIM microscope is now available for your experiments
24.02.2020
The fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) microscope that was funded in December 2018 is up and running. After a rather lengthy aquisition process by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft it was delivered in December 2019, shortly before Christmas. Company provided training was completed in January and now a further piece of equipment was installed: A pulsed 405 nm laser. Among other things this laser allows to excite CFP (and thus CFP-YFP FRET-pairs) with one-photon excitation. It therefore nicely complements the pulsed white light laser (470 - 670 nm) and the multi-photon laser (up to 1300 nm).
The new microscope, a Leica TCS SP8 FALCON DIVE, was named Gaviola, after an Argentinian scientist who did the first reliable fluorescence lifetime measurements during his PhD in Germany in the 1920ies. The technical specifications are given here.
