Short Description
The Imaging & Optics Facility (IOF) is one of nine Scientific Service Units that supports scientists at Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). The Imaging & Optics facility provides an state-of-the-art infrastructure for advanced (optical) imaging applications. The Imaging and Optics infrastructure (582.3 m2) is distributed over the ISTA campus, and sub-divided in 3 main service hubs across ISTA campus:
1. Central Building & Berthalanffy Foundation building (i01/i04 – 278.5 m2)
2. Lab Building East (i06 – 79.3 m2)
3. Sunstone Building / Moonstone Building (i23/i24 – 224.5 m2)
Our state-of-the-art machine park consists of high-end microscope equipment, flow cytometry devices and diverse image analysis that allow scientists across disciplines .(e.g. Chemistry, Material Science, Physics and Life Science) to utilize equipment that is at the forefront of the current available technologies to perform their research.
Machine park: Our machine park consists of a wide selection of (optical) imaging platforms, such as: Widefield, Confocal, Multiphoton, Spinning Disk, TIRF, Light sheet, Force probing, (bio-)luminescence imaging, as well as Fluorescence-Assisted Cell Analyser and -Sorters, and Image analysis workstations with diverse advanced software applications, as well applications for force probing, material characterization and rheology. Additional accessories, optical tools and high-end objectives are available via our Automated Rental System.
Contact Person
Gabriel Krens
Research Services
Microscopy, flow cytometry, image analysis, optical development
Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
Microscopy, flow cytometry, image analysis, optical development
Equipment
- FACS Aria III (BD Biosciences)
- TIRF / FRAP microscope (Visitron)
- IX83/TIRF microscope (Olympus)
- Inverted Widefield Microscope
- Probing atomic force microscope (AFM) Cell Hesion 200 (JPK Berlin).
- Inverted LSM 900 confocal microscope
- Inverted scanning confocal microscope LSM800 (Zeiss)
- Vertical LSM 800 confocal microscope (Zeiss/optical development)
- Confocal Microscope LSM 880 - upright
- Inverted LSM 900-01 confocal microscope
- Inverted Confocal Microscope LSM800
- Zeiss LSM 980 Airyscan
- Inverted Widefield Microscope (Ti-2)
- Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope: LSM800-06+Airyscan - Vertical
- Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope: sp8 FALCON+WLL – Inverted
- Multimodal microscope: Dragonfly 505 - inverted
- Cell Sorter FACS SH800
- Widefield microscope: Ti-2E - inverted
- Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope: LSM 900 – upright
- Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope: SP8 FALCON+WLL – upright
- Multiphoton Microscope: SP8 DIVE CS FALCON – upright
- Multimodal Spinning Disk microscope: CSU-W1-SoRa - inverted
- Spinning Disk microscope: CSU-W1-02
- Spinning Disk microscope: CSU-W1-03
- Inverted Widefield Microscope + Micropatterning System (Ti2E-03 PRIMO)
- Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope Stellaris 5 + WLL
- Lightsheet Microscope (LS7)
- Cell Analyser Cytoflex LX
- Multi-modal Superresulution microscope with Lattice Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM)
- TIRF / FRAP microscope (Nikon)
- Lattice Lightsheet Microscope