We are missing the 3.5 cm dish holder that allows clamping a 3.5 dish onto the galvano stage of the SPE-2 confocal. Please return if you used it, other people need to use it!! It should be stored in the left cabinet behind the SPE-2 above the freezer.
Category Archives: Hardware issues
Photo/ film Scanner -Epson V750 pro (re-)installed
At the CCI office, a slide and photo scanner (link) was installed to scan negatives, overviews of histology slides and exposed ECL films. Please contact Richard if you want to use it.
5x plan-apochromat and 96 well PECON universal plate adapter
We obtained a 5x Plan ApoChromat lens for the Zeiss NLO-LSM880 together with a universal stage adapter from PECON (KM) that fits 85.5x 127.75 mm culture plates (i.e. 6, 12,24,48,96,384 well culture plates). Automated live cell multiwell analyses at 37 degrees C will be possbile but without CO2 and humidity control for now. The old slider holder is still available to accommodate 25×75 mmm slides, labtek slides and culture dishes (35, 60 mm diameter). Many thanks to Bart Spee and Louis Penning (DGK GZD) who made these accessories available to the equipment at the CCI.
NIKON TOKAI hit adapter screws replaced by magnets
The attachment of the different adapters for the TOKAI hit heating chamber on the A1R NIKON / STORM microscope has been changed. Magnets have been glued onto the MCL-piezo stepper adapter to snap sample holders by pairing magnets. Place a sample holder and carefully put the supplied separate 12 mm diameter plate magnets over the front-left and back-right corners.
Service OMX – replacing sCMOS camera
On Tuesday 28th of February to Wednesday the 1st of March the OMX will be unavailable. A sCMOS PCO camera will be replaced and the system will be fully re-aligned.
OMX service has been performed, GUI bug workaround
The OMX has been serviced and new OTFs have been made. We recommend using these. A strange bug in the acquisition software causes the 405 nm laser line (1st channel) to present wrong values, i.e. intensity % of the laser in the drop-down list do not represent the actual values. The desktop background picture of the PC instructs you restore the right interface (in 3 clicks).
New 63x with motorized correction collar on the ZeissLSM880 is working within ZEN
Our new 63x lens (NA 1.2) is working from within ZEN black. A slider becomes available when you choose the objective that allows adjusting the depth correction of the lens. It is very nice to get a better psf at the depth of your most interesting feature. Good when you plan to deconvolve images post acquisition.
Curtains around SPEII
Finally, we have curtains around the SPEII to seal the microscope space from the rest of the lab. This way we now can work normally in the wetlab again with the lights on.
New 63x Zeiss objective (NA 1.2) C-Apochromat for LSM880NLO
We are very grateful to the faculty to expand the Zeiss LSM880 NLO functionality with a hi NA (1.2, 63x) water immersion objective with an automated correction collar. This will allow high resolution imaging on the machine that is currently equipped with a 20x (NA 0.8) and a 32x (NA 0.85) objective. We are waiting for a connector unit to get it working and will be testing its performance shortly afterwards.
New NIKON 20x Plan Achromat objective
A new 20x Plan Achromat VC objective (air) has arrived and is installed on the NIKON A1R/STORM machine. The multi immersion objective is removed from the turret but will remain available for users (ask CCI staff if you prefer to use it). The new objective is more widely applicable, has a working distance of 1 mm, a NA of 0.75 and should work well with the perfect focus system. We will test it in the coming period.