Scientific Core Facilities

The Faculty of Science and Medicine provides access to shared scientific infrastructure through core facilities in order to enable scientists to carry out research at the highest level.

Mission

New microscope
New multi-photon microscope

The new 2-photon / 3-photon microscope produced its first images (with a real sample) this August. Stay tuned.

Bioimage analysis
Imaris 10.1 release

The imaris version 10.1 comes with several bug fixes and new machine learning functionality for surface creation.

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Bioimage analysis
New number cruncher

New image processing workstation. Our newest number cruncher - Gérine - comes with beastly specs and Ubuntu!

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New microscope
Live cell imager

The Cytation 5 equiped with an incubator BioSpa8 from Agilent/BioTek was integrated in the Bioimage Core Facility

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Bioimage analysis
AI FilamentTracer

With the Imaris 10.0 relase comes a machine learning powered FilamentTracer module, well suited for neurons, blood vessels, microtubules, etc.  
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Resources

Besides the research instrumentation, there is a number of resources that concern all core facilities and which are a result of a community effort.

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Technologies

Putting technologies in context of scale and applications - a tour d'horizon of past and current developmpents.

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