Microscopy Facilities

There are a number of facilities for different types of microscopy at the University of Leicester.  This table aims to help you locate which different facilities are available and the person to contact if you are interested in using the microscopes.  We welcome contact from industry if you are interested in the facilities or services on offer.

Please contact the person listed, or use the link if you require any further details.  This page contains details of SEMs, TEMS and Fluorescence Microscopes - keep scrolling down if you cannot find your technique at the top!

Advanced Microscopy Centre

The Advanced Microscopy Centre comprises four instruments,  a UHV STM, an SPM, a FEGSEM and a TEM.  Further information can be found by following the link AMC.

Scanning Electron Microscopes
 

Location	Microscope	Ancillary Equipment	Who to contact
Department of Engineering Engineering Building	XL30 ESEM with Oxford ISIS 310 EDX facilities	Heating Stage up to 1500°C Microtensile tester with 300N force capability Peltier stage	Dr Sarah Hainsworth  svh2@le.ac.uk Mr Graham Clark gc19@le.ac.uk
Department of Geology Bennett Building	Hitachi 3600N (large chamber, variable pressure) SEM with Oxford INCA 350 EDX	GATAN PanaCL Cathodoluminesence Facitilies	Prof. David Siveter djs@le.ac.uk Rob Wilson rnw@le.ac.uk
EM-Suite Centre for Core Biotechnology Services Adrian Building	Hitachi S-3000H SEM	Polaron VG Microtech SC7460 Sputter Coater Bal-Tec Critical Point Drying Apparatus	Professor David Twell (Director) twe@le.ac.uk Mr Stefan Hyman (Chief Technician) sch10@le.ac.uk

Transmission Electron Microsopes
 
 

Fluorescence Microscopes
 
 

Location	Microscopes	Ancillary Equipment	Who to contact
Cell Physiology and Pharmacology Maurice Shock Building	Olympus Fluoview FV500 laser scanning confocal (3 laser) Olympus Fluoview FV300 laser scanning confocal (2 laser) Perkin Elmer Ultraview laser scanning confocal (one laser) Perkin Elmer "Merlin" Digital Imaging System	Olympus Fluoview and Tiempo data-capture Image Analysis Laser Densitometer	Profesor Stefan Nahorski srn@le.ac.uk
Advanced Imaging Facility (AIF) Centre for Core Biotechnology Services	Henry Wellcome Building: 2 Nikon TE300 inverted fluorescence microscopes Nikon Eclipse Ti-E microscope with LEDs and EM-CCD camera Leica TCS SP5 laser scanning confocal microscope Adrian Building: Olympus FV1000 confocal laser scanning microscope Olympus CellR/ScanR imaging station Olympus BX61 automated microscope with Scanview, Applied Spectral Imaging's scanning platform and software Maurice Shock Medical Sciences Building: Zeiss MP7 multiphoton microscope Olympus LV200 bioluminescence imaging system Nikon TIRF microscope Robert Kilpatrick Clinical Sciences Building: Nikon C1Si confocal laser scanning microscope	High resolution CCD and EMCCD cameras Stage climate chambers POC chambers microinjection and micromanipulators Off-line data processing: Volocity Imaris ImageJ Huygens deconvolution Photoshop Nikon NIS-Elements Leica LAS AF software Olympus CellR and ScanR analysis	Dr  Andrew Fry (Academic lead) amf5@le.ac.uk Dr Kees Straatman (SEO) krs5@le.ac.uk

Author: Sarah Hainsworth, last updated 2/9/2011.