Light Microscopy Facility

Our microscopes enable:

  • 2-photon and Intravital Microscopy
  • Biological / Soft Material Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
  • Confocal Microscopy - Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM)
  • Airy scan microscopy
  • Epifluorescence for live cell imaging
  • Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS)
  • Fluorometer and Lifetime Spectroscopy
  • Spinning Disc Microscopy
  • Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) Microscopy
  • Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM)
  • Superresolution Fluorescence Microscopy including photo-activation localisation microscopy (PALM)
  • Time-Resolved Single Molecule Imaging including Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)
  • Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) Microscopy
  • Structured illumination Microscopy (SIM)
  • Apotome - Structure illumination
  • Gaussian and Lattice Lightsheet microscopy (LSFM)
  • Multiplex Fluorescent Microscopy imaging and Spectral Unmixing
  • Second-Harmonic Generation (SHG) Microscopy
  • Ptychography - Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI)