We updated the charges for using CCI equipment due to a change in the financial re-organisation to maintain the facility. In the coming weeks, active users will recieve a mail with the tarifs that apply as of the 1st of March 2023. The updated pricing is also listed at the CCI site in Organization issues.

The Zeiss LSM880 MP system has been upgraded with a 405 nm laser to do 1P imaging of UV dyes. Please contact Eva Mulder for details.

The wide field imaging system for histology and fluorescence was found with a broken Olympus 100x lens last week. It must have been a terrible noise to crack the top lens, please come forward if this happened during your session, we can offer mental support. We would like to prevent this so please let us…

After extensive testing we have a new microscopy setup at the CCI. It is a spinning disk automated microscope from Olympus (now Evident) that has the possibility to image fast, sensitive and at different imaging modes (wide field, confocal, bright field and in an Enhanced resolution mode -SoRa). Our intention is to replace the outdated…

Working on the Leica SPE2: Entry: General entrance AG East 1 st floor, direct right turn to access the Confocal room O.161, knock before entry and apply to the hygiene rules that are supplied. A second person can be present in the room yet distance of 1.5 m should be kept at all times. Exit:…

The CCI is closed for all purposes with exception for people that need to finish essential experiments and the work performed on corona at the virology subdepartment. We are one week in this setting now and hope everybody is safe at home trying to get a workroutine. Great initiatives to learn microscopy related (and unrelated)…

Happy 2017. May this year bring you happiness, health, joy, strength and success.