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20. AMBIO STED Abberior Facility Line

Carrier: Charité

Usable by: HU | TU | FU | Charité

Abberior Facility Line STED

 

AMBIO-satellite at Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF) department of clinical physiology and nutritional medicine

 

Hindenburgdamm 30
12203 Berlin (Steglitz)
Main building, 5th floor, elevator 15, room 5505A

 

Maintenance, training and assistance is done by Prof. Dr. Dorothee Günzel and PD Dr. Jörg Piontek. Please contact us regarding labelling–especially if trying to push resolution limits (dorothee.guenzel@charite.de; joerg.piontek@charite.de).

MAIN FEATURE: High-end confocal and super resolution imaging platform:

  • One STED laser (775 nm) and four excitation lasers (405, 485, 561, 640 nm)
  • Patented adaptive illumination methods enable imaging with reduced photobleaching and phototoxicity
  • Multi-channel, multi-position, time series, multi-ROI & tiling/stitching
  • FRAP, FLIP, photoactivation, colocalization

Olympus IX83 inverted basis:

  • Fully motorized stage for accurate repositioning (IX3-SSU ultrasonic XY-scanning stage for IX83)
  • Z-drift compensation (Olympus IX3-ZDC-12 z-drift compensation unit for steady confocal/STED imaging)
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    Specifications

    Imaging Modes

    STED plus confocal:

    • Two main STED (stimulated emission depletion) -channels: StarRed/Atto647N/SiR (with excitation at 640 nm) & StarOrange/Alexa Fluor 594 (with excitation at 561 nm)
    • An optional third less efficient STED channel, for instance for STAR 460L (long Stokes-shift dye) with excitation at 485 nm
    • Plus up to two confocal channels: DAPI & Alexa Fluor 488/GFP (or similar fluorophores)
    • 2D-STED: Resolution XY > 40 nm, Z > 500 nm including Z-stacks for 3D-imaging
    • 3D-STED: Resolution down to XYZ > 100 nm including Z-stacks for 3D-imaging

    Confocal only:

    • Resolution down to XY > 220 nm, Z > 500 nm
    • 4 channels with fluorophores similar to DAPI, Alexa Fluor 488/GFP, Alexa Fluor 555/Alexa Fluor 594 & Alexa Fluor 647/Cy5

    Widefield EPI fluorescence:

    • 4 channels with fluorophores similar to DAPI, Alexa Fluor 488/GFP, Alexa Fluor 555, Alexa Fluor 594, Alexa Fluor 647/Cy5

    Excitation Lasers

    • 405 nm (cw)
    • 485 nm (pulsed)
    • 561 nm (pulsed)
    • 640 nm (pulsed)
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      STED-Laser

      • 775 nm (high-power variant, pulsed)
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        Detectors

        • Three ultra-sensitive single-photon-counting APDs with tunable detection bands between 400 and 800 nm
        • Matrix detector: MATRIX array detector with more than 20 avalanche photodiodes in single photon counting mode
        • Four-color widefield module for epifluorescence with camera port on Olympus (405/470/590/635)
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          Objectives

          • 10x UPLSAPO 10X2 Air         NA 0.4 WD 3100 µm   
          • 20x UPLFLN 20X Air              NA 0.5 WD 2100 µm   
          • 20x UPLXAPO 20X Oil           NA 0.8 WD 610 µm    
          • 60x UPLSAPO 60XW Water  vNA 1.2 WD 280 µm     
          • 60x UPLXAPO 60XO Oil        NA 1.42 WD 150 µm     

          Special

          • Adaptive illumination via RESCue, DyMIN, and MINFIELD
            • RAYSHAPE dynamic aberration correction
            • EASY3D STED
            • Confocal & STED autofocus
            • Spectral RAINBOW detection
            • Autoalignment
            • Software Base Package Imspector for Facility Line

            Further information about the Abberior Facility Line STED can be found at the product homepage or obtained from the AMBIO satellite at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, CBF,  Med. Klinik f. Gastroenterologie, Infektiologie und Rheumatologie – Klinische Physiologie / Ernährungsmedizin (dorothee.guenzel@charite.de; joerg.piontek@charite.de).

            Further information:

            https://bua.openiris.io/Landing/Res...

            Possible user: No restrictions

            Conditions of use:

            The User and PI hereby declare to have understood and accepted the AMBIO User Guidelines and Rules
            including the Safety Rules, as available online at: https://ambio.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites/ohne_AZ/sonstige/ambio/Procedures/AMBIO_User-Guidelines-Rules_2025-01-30.pdf. It is further
            understood that these Guidelines and Rules may be updated or changed in agreement with the AMBIO
            steering committee. Registered Users and PIs will be notified of essential changes (service fees).
            Furthermore, the new User and PI have understood that a fee will be charged for the usage of AMBIO services
            as outlined in the AMBIO User Guidelines and Rules, and that they are willing and able to pay the fees.

             

            Email: ambio@charite.de

            Provider:

            Advanced Medical BIOimaging Core Facility

            Provider Location:

            Campus Charité Mitte (CCM)
            CharitéCrossOver (CCO)
            Rm 01-306
            Virchowweg 6
            10117 Berlin
            Germany

            Location:

            Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin Department of clinical physiology and nutritional medicine Hindenburgdamm 30 12203 Berlin (Steglitz) Main building
            5th floor
            elevator 15
            room 5505A