COMPARE Technologies

The equipment listed below are available to researchers in the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham, and to BHF-funded cardiovascular researchers across the UK.

Please contact compare@birmingham-nottingham.ac.uk for further information.

Diagram - Microscopes UoB and UoN

 

 

 Applications

Contact

Bioluminescence microscopy

 

 

Olympus LV200 Inverted Microscope

 Bioluminescence and Fluorescence

Joëlle Goulding

FRET microscopy and photometry

 

 

Cairn custom built FRET microscope 

Protein interactions

Joao Correia

Ligand hunting

 

 

AVEXIS technology

Identification of

protein interactions

Yi Sun

Light-sheet microscopy

 

 

3i Lattice LightSheet V2 

4D imaging of cellular and

subcellular dynamics

Joao Correia

3i Marianas diSPIM  

4D imaging of cellular dynamics

and isotrophic resolution

Joao Correia

Ultramicroscope II

3D fluorescent imaging

Joao Correia

Multi-photon microscopy

 

 

Zeiss LSM880 NLO MP laser system

In-vivo imaging

David Hodson

Ptychography

 

 

Phase Focus LiveCyte

 

Joëlle Goulding

Super-Resolution Microscopy    

Single molecule microscopy

   

Nikon N-STORM*

dSTORM (2D and 3D)

PALM (2D and 3D)

TIRFM

DIC 

Joao Correia

Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM)

   

Nikon N-SIM S microscope

3D SIM

2D SIM

TIRF SIM

H-TIRF

Joao Correia

Cairn four camera TIRF microscope 

Live single molecule imaging

dSTORM (2D and 3D)

PALM (2D and 3D)

FRAP

FRET 

Davide Calebiro

Image analysis platforms

Software

 

Six high performance work stations

Imaris
FIJI 
KNIME
Cell Profiler
Adobe Illustrator

Matlab

Huygens Professional

Arivis Vision 4D

Jeremy Pike

*Funded with the support of the British Heart Foundation

Summary of COMPARE Microscopes (PDF)

Other microscopes are available through SLIM at the University of Nottingham and the Medical School Technology Hub  at the University of Birmingham.