Fluorescence microscope image featuring individual cell as bright green dots and blue lines.

Imaging Facility

Our Imaging Facility supports scientists from both of the institute’s locations, Seewiesen and Martinsried. We help design experiments including the choice of fluorophores, clearing method, image modality and possible processing and analysis pipeline. We provide theoretical and practical trainings to students and postdocs. Furthermore, we assist in designing and purchasing commercially-available microscopes as well building complex prototypes and optical setups ranging from multi-photon microscopes to behavioral arenas.

Our instruments

For staff: Detailed information on all equipment is found in our MAX intranet

Leica STELLARIS 5 DMi8 (inverted) - This is an inverted confocal microscope suitable for a variety of samples from neuronal cell cultures to brain slices. — **Leica STELLARIS 5 DMi8 (inverted)** - This is an inverted confocal microscope suitable for a variety of samples from neuronal cell cultures to brain slices.

**Leica STELLARIS 5 DMi8 (inverted)** - This is an inverted confocal microscope suitable for a variety of samples from neuronal cell cultures to brain slices.

Leica STELLARIS 5 DM6 (upright) - This upright confocal microscope is suitable to image to image fixed samples such as whole Drosophila brains or slices. — **Leica STELLARIS 5 DM6 (upright)** - This upright confocal microscope is suitable to image to image fixed samples such as whole *Drosophila* brains or slices.

**Leica STELLARIS 5 DM6 (upright)** - This upright confocal microscope is suitable to image to image fixed samples such as whole *Drosophila* brains or slices.

Zeiss LSM700 (upright) - Upright confocal laser scanning microscope whose short beampath from the objectives to the detectors allows the detection of dim fluorescent signals. — **Zeiss LSM700 (upright)** - Upright confocal laser scanning microscope whose short beampath from the objectives to the detectors allows the detection of dim fluorescent signals.

**Zeiss LSM700 (upright)** - Upright confocal laser scanning microscope whose short beampath from the objectives to the detectors allows the detection of dim fluorescent signals.

Leica SP8 (upright) - This upright confocal laser scanning microscope is particularly suitable to image slices thanks also to its stage with wide travel range and the Leica navigator system. — **Leica SP8 (upright)** - This upright confocal laser scanning microscope is particularly suitable to image slices thanks also to its stage with wide travel range and the Leica navigator system.

**Leica SP8 (upright)** - This upright confocal laser scanning microscope is particularly suitable to image slices thanks also to its stage with wide travel range and the Leica navigator system.

Leica SP8 Matrix (upright) - This is an inverted confocal microscope suitable for a variety of samples from neuronal cell cultures to brain slices. — **Leica SP8 Matrix (upright) -** This is an inverted confocal microscope suitable for a variety of samples from neuronal cell cultures to brain slices.

**Leica SP8 Matrix (upright) -** This is an inverted confocal microscope suitable for a variety of samples from neuronal cell cultures to brain slices.

Nikon Spinning disk CSU-W1 SoRa (inverted) - This microscope is the popular system of choice for live-cell experiments, thanks to its speed and very gentle illumination. — **Nikon Spinning disk CSU-W1 SoRa (inverted)** - This microscope is the popular system of choice for live-cell experiments, thanks to its speed and very gentle illumination.

**Nikon Spinning disk CSU-W1 SoRa (inverted)** - This microscope is the popular system of choice for live-cell experiments, thanks to its speed and very gentle illumination.

Olympus FV1000 with tunable MaiTai DeepSee laser unit (upright)

This microscope has a tunable femptosecond Ti:Sapphire laser and can host whole animals (e.g. Drosophila or zebrafish) as well as brain slices for functional or structural in-vivo studies.

Miltenyi Biotec Ultramicroscope II

This is a lighsheet microscope with a large chamber which can hold whole brains or small animals. It is equipped with many laser lines as well as magnification objectives ranging from 1x to 12x

STED STEDYCON microscope (upright)

This microscope can achieve superresolution imaging and is equipped with 488, 561, 633 nm lasers as well as a 775 nm STED beam.

High power analyzer with Amira and Arivis Vision4D

Our workstation has an Intel Xeon E5-2620V3 processor, 256 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD and a Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN X. Users can log in and analyse or visualize their data with Arivis Vision4D or Amira.