Bioimaging

The Bioimaging Platform makes advanced optical microscopy equipment and techniques available to IDIBELL researchers for the performance of the maximum number of experiments requested by the various research groups. It provides technical assistance from the design stage of experiments to the analysis of the results obtained.

Services

Equipment

Optical Microscopy

Inverted confocal microscope Zeiss LSM980 equipped with an Airyscan2 detector, motorized stage, and incubation chamber.
2 Inverted confocal microscopes Leica TCS SP5 AOBS equipped with motorized stage and incubation chamber.
Leica TCS SPE confocal microscope.
Zeiss Observer Z1 inverted widefield microscope equipped with motorized stage, incubation chamber and Apotome structured illumination system.
Olympus IX81 Cell R inverted widefield microscope equipped with motorized stage and incubation chamber.
2 Leica DM6000 widefield microscopes.
Olympus IX81 inverted widefield microscope.
Nikon Eclipse 80i widefield microscope.
Olympus BX51 widefield microscope.
Leica MZ16 stereo microscope equipped with fluorescence module.
Leica Z16APO stereo microscope equipped with fluorescence module.
Olympus MVX10 stereo microscope.
Image analysis software: Imaris, Fiji (ImageJ), LAS AF, LASX.

Publications

Characterization of pluripotent stem cells.
Mercè Martí, Lola Mulero, Cristina Pardo, Cristina Morera, Meritxell Carrió, Leopoldo Laricchia-Robbio, Concepcion Rodriguez Esteban & Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte. Nature Protocols vol. 8, pages 223–253. 10 January 2013; doi:10.1038/nprot.2012.154

Mcad-mediated intercellular interactions activate satellite cell división.
Merce Marti, Núria Montserrat, Cristina Pardo, Lola Mulero, Laia Miquel-Serra, Alexandre Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues, José Andrés Vaquero, Bernd Kuebler, Cristina Morera, María José Barrero & Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte. J Cell Sci. 17 September 2013; doi: 10.1242/jcs.123562

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