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Advanced Light Microscopy

The Advanced Light Microscopy (ALM) is the i3S scientific platform specialized in state-of-the-art optical microscopy to study cellular systems in biosciences research areas like cell biology, oncobiology, neurobiology, immunology, and biomaterials. The ALM provide open access to high-end imaging technology and large expertise in advanced light microscopy applied to multidimensional imaging of cells and tissues, live cell imaging, functional and molecular imaging (ex. FRAP, FRET, FLIM), as well as in bio-image data analysis. The equipment available includes transmission/widefield fluorescence microscopes (one with TIRF), spinning disk microscopes (one with SR-SIM), laser scanning confocal microscopes (one with STED, FLIM and FCS) and a light-sheet microscope. Also are available workstations with software for bioimage analysis .

The unit offers scientific advice in experimental planning, training in hands-on operation of the equipment and in image analysis, as well as scientific consulting in research projects development. We are committed to increasing the knowledge in bioimaging of scientific and industrial communities. With that goal in mind, we organize several post-graduation courses in light microscopy and image analysis. The ALM is a core facility of the national research infrastructure PPBI-Portuguese Platform of BioImaging and of the European research infrastructure Euro-Bioimaging ERIC.

Platform Head

Team

Resources

Image analysis software

ImageJ / Fiji

CellProfiler

Huygens (Nyquist rate calculator)

Imaris

ilastik

ICY

MATLAB

Graphpad

 

Microscopes

 

Laser Point Scanning Confocal System

Leica STELLARIS 8 STED FALCON

Leica TCS SP8

Leica TCS SP5

 

Widefield upright microscopes

Zeiss Axio Imager Z1

Zeiss Axio Imager Z1 Apotome

 

Widefield inverted microscopes

Leica DMI6000 FFW

Leica DMI6000 Timelapse

Nikon ECLIPSE Ti TIRF 

 

Spinning Disk Confocal Systems

Nikon Crest X-Light V3 with DeepSIM

Andor Revolution XD

 

Digital Scanning Light-sheet Fluorescence Microscope

Digital Scanning Lightsheet Fluorescence Microscope (dSLFM)

Services

  • Open-access to light microscopy equipment
  • Open-access to workstations and specialized software for bioimage analysis
  • Scientific advisement in experiment planning
  • Advisement and support in bioimage analysis
  • Hands-on training on equipment operation

 

 

Fees apply for use of ALM resources (price information soon available)

Partnerships

PPBI – Portuguese Platform of BioImage

 

ELMI - European Light Microscopy Iniciative

 

NEUBIAS – Network of European BioImage Analysts (COST action CA15124)

 

COMULIS - Correlated Multimodal Imaging in Life Sciences (COST action CA17121)