The Dundee OMX Microscope -

Spectacular Resolution!

Meiosis in barley: The two strands of the synaptonemal complex, labelled with Asy1 (green) and Zyp1 (red), and spaced by a distance of only 100nm, can be clearly discerned. 3D_SIM image by Dylan Phillips, University of Aberstywyth, Wales

In delivery of our mission we are achieving production line Super-Resolution Microscopy, supporting users with advice and expertise from experimental setup, to data acquisition and processing, all the way to data analysis.

We are running 3D-Structured Illumination, for highly improved spatial and axial resolution as well as fast, multi-channel Time Lapse Microscopy, at an up to 90 fps frame-rate. The commercial OMX system (Applied Precision, a GE Healthcare company) was purchased by SULSA Logo (the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance) and is currently running as a version 3 system.

Serving more than 72 different projects from Scotland, the UK and Europe over 2+ years has allowed us to build a wide expertise on big diversity of samples with a wide variety of different biological backgrounds and questions.

 

The Dundee University OMX is a Proof-of-Concept Studies Site

(Advanced Light Microscopy – Access to Innovative Technologies)

The opportunity to submit project proposals closed on November 30th, 2011. Proposals are currently evaluated -

we are expecting great projects on the Dundee OMX !

last updated Dec 2011