ZEISS Elyra 7 Lattice SIM
The Oxford-ZEISS CoE and Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics were awarded a MRC Multiuser Equipment Grant to purchase a ZEISS ELYRA 7 Lattice SIM. Accessible to users from the Kennedy, IDRM and beyond.
GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Structured illumination microscope (SIM) allowing super-resolved images of live samples
- CO2 and thermal environment control
- RAPP FRAP module for photo-manipulation
MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVES
- C-Apochromat 63x/1.20 W Corr UV-VIS-IR
- PApo 40x/1.4 Oil DIC (UV) V-IR
- Plan-Apochromat 63x/1.40 Oil DIC
- alpha PApo 63x/1.46 Oil Corr
- Plan-Neofluar 10x/0.30 WD=5.2
ILLUMINATION
- Halogen lamp
- 488 nm, 100 mW
- 405 nm, 50 mW
- 561 nm, 500 mW
- 642 nm, 500 mW
DETECTORS AND AVAILABLE FILTERS
- FL Filter Set 77 GFP/mRFP/Alexa 633
- Filter Set 96 EX BP 390/40, BS FT 420, EM BP 450/40
- pco.edge sCMOS
SOFTWARE
- ZEISS Zen Black acquisition software
- Dedicated analysis workstation
- ZEISS Zen Blue analysis software
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We request that publications that include data or analysis performed with the facility include the following acknowledgment- “We gratefully acknowledge the Imaging Core in the Centre for Human Genetics and Oxford-ZEISS Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Imaging for their support and assistance in this work. The ZEISS Elyra 7 was funded by MRC Equip grant MC_PC_MR/X012069/1, Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research, Centre of Human Genetics and supported by Carl Zeiss GMBH.”.