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The UMCG Microscopy and Imaging Center (UMIC)

UMIC provides the microscopy infrastructure to support state of the art research in medical and biological sciences.

It offers training and access to advanced  microscopes and image processing  to researchers of the UMCG, RUG and  to external users.  

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Equipment:

Confocal microscopes:

• Zeiss LSM 780  two- and single photon  Confocal Laser Scan microscope
• Zeiss LSM 7MP two photon Confocal Laser Scan microscope
• Leica SP8X DLS   Confocal Laser Scan- and Light Sheet Microsope
• Leica SP8 easy to use Confocal Laser Scan Microsope
• Zeiss Cell Discoverer 7   High content Widefield/Confocal microscope (see also high content microscopes)

High content microscopes:

• Zeiss Cell Discoverer 7   High content Widefield/Confocal microscope
• TissueFaxs high content fluorescence Widefield microscope
• IncuCyte S3 live cell imaging and analysis station (bright and fluorescence)
• Incucyte ZOOM live cell imaging and analysis station ( bright and fluorescencenew in UMIC)

Fluorescence microscopes:

• DeltaVision Elite fast, high-resolution widefield imaging system
• Leica DM 4000B fluorescence microscope
• Solamere widefield fluorescence (using polychromator) Microscope for live imaging (on request)

Brightfield microscopes

• Olympus BX50 research light (no fluorescence) microscope and color camera
• Zeiss STEMI SV11 biocular and color camera ( on request)

Image processing

• Image processing several workstations and dedicated software

  Electron microscopes:

• FEI  CM100 Transmission EM (TEM) (100kV)
• Zeiss Supra 55 STEM with ATLAS for large-scale imaging and SECOM for correlative light and electron microscopy
• Thermo Fisher Thalos (2020q3) TEM-STEM and EDX
• FI FastEM (2020q4)

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Information:

• Location: Antonius Deusinglaan 1, building 3215, 6th and 7th floor
• Contact : Klaas Sjollema, tel.: 050- 3616169 , (manager LM)
• Contact : Jeroen Kuipers, tel +31 6 129 836 75, (manager EM)

• Registration for new user
• Intake Form for Zeiss system or EM user
• UMIC calendar to book equipment (for registered users)
• New UMIC / Cell biology site
• We participate in the NL-Bioimaging AM initiative.

Imaging course:

• Every year we organize courses on cellular imaging. For info, mail Greetje Noppert