Equipment
The core facility is equipped with modern light and electron microscopic equipment and provides access to various preparation and sectioning technologies.
- Plunge Freezer KF 80
- Spray Fixing Device (propane jet)
- High Pressure Freezing Machine HPM 010
- Freeze Fracture/Freeze Etching Device BAF 060
- Freeze Substitution Unit FSU 010
- Possibility of using a LEICA Grid Plunger in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Kirsten Bacia
- Rotating Microtome HM 335E
- Cryo Microtome HM 560
- Ultramicrotome Ultracut R
- Ultramicrotome Ultracut S with Reichert FCS freeze cutting system
- Stereomicroscope SV 11
- Research microscopes for brightfield, phase contrast and fluorescence analyses (upright and inverted) equipped with Axiocam/Axiovision image acquisition system
- possible usage of Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope in cooperation with other groups
- EM 900 TEM with 1k slow scan CCD camera
- Libra 120 Plus cryo TEM with 2k slow scan CCD camera
- Possible usage of scanning electron microscopes in cooperation with other groups
