The Zeiss LSM 880 with Airyscan is a point scanning confocal microscope able to generate high-resolution three-dimensional images of thick specimens with high sensitivity, high speed and low photodamage. It is an inverted microscope especially suitable for live cell imaging and photobleaching experiments, equipped with a large cage incubator and a stage top incubator for temperature control and CO2 supply and with Definite Focus for hardware focus control during long time-lapse acquisitions. The stage is motorized and furthermore equipped with a piezo for Z displacement so fast 4D imaging is possible in multiple stage positions. Its Airyscan with 32 concentrically arranged GaAsP detection elements is able to collect all light from an Airy pattern simultaneously, allowing for increased resolution (140 nm laterally and 400 nm axially, at 488 nm). It can also be used in Fast Mode, which enables parallel excitation and detection of four image pixels. The result is a speed improvement by a factor 4x, while maintaining the sensitivity of Airyscan and 1.5x resolution improvement. Its scanning unit further includes two PMT detectors (one of them cooled) as well as a GaAsP detector for increased sensitivity (45% QE compared to ~25% QE for conventional PMT). It is equipped with lasers from violet to far red (405, 458, 488, 514, 561, 594 and 633 nm excitation wavelengths).

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Data files older than 1 month will be automatically deleted on this system, please copy your data to the iMM server using the desktop link.

1. Users can book at maximum 8 hours per week
2. This usage restriction does not apply for weekends and for working days before 9:00 and after 21:00
3. Exceptions to these rules require approval from José Rino.

Upon request:

The system should be always on, you only need to:

• Turn on the HXP lamp
• Turn on the computer
• Log into Windows with your Agendo credentials
• Start ZEN

If there is another user for this microscope in the next hour:

• Exit the ZEN software
• Leave the Ar laser on Standby
• Leave all other used lasers and HXP lamp on
• Log off the computer
• Clean up immersion objectives

Else:

• Turn off the lasers on ZEN
• Turn off the HXP lamp
• Clean up immersion objectives
• Exit the ZEN software
• Shutdown the computer

If the system is completely off, please follow this procedure:

• Turn on the MAIN SWITCH
• Turn on the SYSTEMS/PC switch
• Turn on the COMPONENTS switch
• Turn on the HXP lamp
• Turn on the computer and login into Windows with your Agendo credentials
• Start the ZEN Black software

Please only shutdown the system if instructed to do so by the Bioimaging Unit.

• Turn off the lasers on ZEN
• Exit the ZEN software
• Shutdown the computer
• Turn off the HXP lamp
• Turn off the two switches SYSTEMS/PC and COMPONENTS
• Wait 5 min. for Ar laser to cool down
• Turn off the MAIN SWITCH (do not turn the key)

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