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Partner Core Facilities

Central Imaging and FLow Cytometry Facility
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ncbsciff/about-ciff

NCBS

Imaging modalities available

Point Scanning Confocal

  • Olympus FV3000 Inverted with 4 Lasers

  • Olympus FV3000 Inverted with 6 Lasers and live cell chamber

  • Olympus FV3000 Upright with 4 Lasers

  • Olympus FV3000 Inverted with 5 Lasers and incubation chamber

  • Olympus FV3000 Invered with 4 Lasers, Resonant Scanner

  • Zeiss LSM 780

Spinning Disk Confocal

  • Nikon Spinning disk COnfocal with CrestOptics spinning Disk

  • Nikon Ti2E with Yokogawa CSU-W1 SoRa Spinning disk

  • Nikon TiE with You kogawa CSU Spinning Disk

Super Resolution 

  • Nikon NSIM and NSTORM

  • Abberior 2-Color STED

  • LSM 980 with Airyscan 2

Flow Cytomter anlyser

  • BD Fortessa X-20 SORP

  • BD Fortessa X-20

  • BD FACS Verse

Flow Cytomter Sorter

  • BD Aria III 4 Lasers

  • BD Aria III 3 lasers

  • BD Aria III 2 Lasers

  • BD FACS Aria Fusion

Services 

Contact: Dr. Sarvajith, Scientific Officer D and In Charge-CIFF        
                 ciff@ncbs.res.in/ sarvajithm@ncbs.res.in
                 krishna@ncbs.res.in/  venkatesaniyer@ccamp.res.in

Microscopy Facility

IISER Pune

Imaging modalities available

Confocal Microscope

Zeiss LSM710 ( inverted)

Zeiss LSM710 (inverted)

Leica SP8 (inverted)

Nikon AX (inverted)

Evident FV-4000 (upright)

Evident FV-4000 (inverted)

Fluorescence Microscope
Leica DM6

Zeiss Apotome 1

 

Multiphoton

Zeiss LSM 780 (inverted)

Leica TCS DM6 (upright)

 

 

Spinning Disk Confocal

Evident SpinSR

Super Resolution

Leica STED 3X

Zeiss Elyra 7

TIRF

Olympus IX81 CellTIRF

Scanning Electron Microscope

Zeiss EVO LS10

Services 

  • Light and Electron microscopy

  • Image Data Analysis

  • Training

Major Strength 

  • Confocal imaging

  • STED and Multiphoton Imaging

  • Microscopy Training

Contact: Dr. Santosh Podder (microscopy@iiserpune.ac.in)

Single-Molecule and Super-Resolution Imaging Facility

IIT Hyderabad

Imaging modalities available

Super-Resolution Imaging system

  • Nikon N-STORM with TIRF module and two cameras for simultaneous two-color imaging

  • Leica DMi8 infinity TIRF microscope

Services 

  • Single-Molecule Tracking in live cells

  • Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy
    (SMLM/STORM/PALM/DNA PAINT)

  • Single-Molecule FRET/FISH

  • 5D-6D imaging of live and fixed cells

  • Image processing and data analysis

Contact: Dr. Gunjan Mehta (gunjanmehta@bt.iith.ac.in;
                                          dbtsahaj@iith.ac.in)

Shiv Nadar University

Fluorescence Microscope
Nikon Ti2,
Leica DM6M, Z
Zeiss Axiozoom V16

Imaging modalities available

Point Scanning Confocal Microscope

Nikon Ti2E AXR NSPARC 
 

Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope

Aurox

Nikon Ti2

Multiphoton Microscope

Nikon Ti2E A1R MP

Services 

  • Light and Electron microscopy

  • Image Data Analysis

  • Training

Contact: Rajan Singh (rajan.singh@snu.edu.in)

Core Imaging Facility

JNCASR

Imaging modalities available

Point Scanning Confocal Microscope

  • Zeiss LSM 510 META (Inverted)

  • Zeiss LSM 880 live cell imaging (Inverted)

  • Zeiss LSM 880 Airyscan (Inverted)

 

Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope

High content imaging

Yokogawa CQ1

Multiphoton Microscope

Olympus FV MPE RS

Super-resolution Microscope

Zeiss Elyra7

(Lattice SIM2 with dual sCMOS camera)

Contact: Suma.B.S. (suma@jncasr.ac.in)

Services 

  • Light microscopy

  • Whole slide scanning system

  • Multiphoton (deep tissue imaging)

  • High content screening

  • Apotome mode, super resolution, SMLM, TIRF

Confocal Facility (TIFR)

Imaging modalities available

TIFR Mumbai

Fluorescence Microscope
Zeiss Apotome 3

Point Scanning Confocal Microscope

  • Zeiss LSM880 ( Upright)

  • Leica SP8 (inverted)

  • Olympus FV1200 (inverted)

  • Olympus FV3000 (inverted)

  • Zeiss LSM 980 (Upright) with Multiphoton

Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope

Olympus SpinSR

Light Sheet

Ziess Lightsheet 7

FLIM

BeckranBecker & Hickl FLIM on Zeiss 980

 

Super Resolution

Leica STED 3X

Services 

  • Imaging and training

Contact: Boby K V (bobykv@tifr.res.in)

Central Imaging Facilty

Ashoka University

Imaging modalities available

Fluorescence Microscope
BX-63 Olympus (upright)

Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope

Olympus Yokogawa disc

Point Scanning Confocal Microscope

LSM 900 with Airyscan2

Slide Scanner

Aperio Versa 8 (Leica microsystems)

Ashoka-Zeiss Core Imaging Facility

Imaging modalities available

Multiphoton microscopyLSM 980 NLO (Zeiss)

Volume Imaging

Lattice Lightsheet 7

High Content Microscopy

Cell Discoverer 7 with LSM 900 Airyscan (Zeiss)

Super-resolution Microscopy

Elyra 7 LS (Lattice SIM2) with Dual sCMOS Camera

Contact: Dr. Jitender K. Verma (jitender.verma@ashoka.edu.in)

BITS Pilani

BITS Pilani Hyderabad

Central Analytical Lab
 

Imaging modalities available

Point Scanning Confocal Microscope

Leica SP8

 

Contact

Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Facility 

CCMB Hyderabad

Imaging modalities available

Stereo Fluorescence Microscope

     Zeiss AxioZoom V16 Stereo Microscope with Apotome​

Fluorescence microscopes

  • Axio Imager Z2 with Axiocam 503 camera with apotome

  • Axioplan 2 Imaging with Digital Monochrome Camera.

  • Axioimager Z2 Fully Motorized Microscope Mono and color Camera.

Point Scanning Confocal Microscope

  • Olympus FV3000 (Inverted) with 6 Lasers and live cell chamber

  • Leica TCS SP8, DMi8 with 7 laser lines 

Super-resolution Microscopy

  • LSM 880 with airyscan2

  • Leica 3x STED with White light lasers and tuneable from 470 nm to 670 nm and 405 nm diode

  • Zeiss Elyra SIM II

Volume Imaging

​   3i Marianas Light sheet

Raman Confocal Microscope

​   Renishaw Invia with 532, 633, 785 lasers

Contact: Dr. Nitla Venkata Mahesh (maheshnitla@ccmb.res.in)

University Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre (USIC)
Website: JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research | INSTRUMENT REQUEST FORM

Point Scanning Confocal Microscope

​   Leica, Stellaris 5

Fluorescent Microscope

​   Axio imager Z2, Ziess - Karyotyping and FISH workstation for diagnostics in JSS Hospital

Flow Cytometer

​   BD FACS

Services 

  • Imaging

  • Training

  • Diagnostics

Small Animal Imaging

​   Vilber Newton 7.0 FT 500

ContactDr. Prashant V (prashantv@jssuni.edu.in)

DST-FIST Advanced Bioimaging Facility
Website: https://sites.google.com/smail.iitm.ac.in/biosaifiitm/home

Widefield fluorescence microscopy (with FRET imaging)

​   Olympus IX83

Point Scanning Confocal Microscope (with live cell imaging)

​   Olympus FV3000

Major Strength 

  • Live cell imaging

  • FRET imaging on widefield and confocal

  • Hands-on training

  • Live cell imaging, Confocal scanning & cell sorting

Services 

  • Imaging

  • Training

Contact: Dr. Shantanu Pradhan, Faculty-in charge (spradhan@iitm.ac.in)
                Danisha, Technical staff (advancedimagingfacility@smail.iitm.ac.in)

Microscope Facility
Website: https://gbu.edu.in/instruments/

Inverted Motorized Fluorescence Microscope

​   Nikon Eclipse Ti2

Point Scanning Confocal Microscope 

​   Nikon AX R Laser-Scanning Confocal Microscope (6 Lasers)

Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope

Olympus SpinSR

Flow Cytometer with Cell Sorter

​   BD Accuri, BD Lyric & BD Discover S8

Services 

    Imaging

Major Strength 

  • Live Cell Imaging

  • Confocal Scanning

  • Cell Sorting

Contact: Faculty-in Charge: Dr. Rohini Nair (rohini.nair@gbu.edu.in)

Central Imaging Facility
Website: https://www.niab.res.in/facilities_cif/

Fluorescence Microscope

​   Zeiss, Axio Observer 7 with Apotome

   Zeiss, Axio Observer 7 equipped with a live-cell imaging system

   Leica, THUNDER 

Point Scanning Confocal Microscope 

​   Leica, TCS SP8

   Evident FV 4000 

Super-resolution Microscopy

   Zeiss, LSM880 with Airyscan and Elyra P.1

High Content Imaging

   Revvity(Perkin Elmer), Operetta CLS™ high-content analysis system, LED based

Scanning Electron Microscope

   Zeiss, Evo 18 with EDAX

Transmission Electron Microscope

   Jeol, 120KV

Flow Cytometer Analyser

​   BD, Foretessa

Flow Cytometer Sorter

   BD, Melody

Services 

  • Imaging

  • Training

  • Elemental Analysis

Contact: Shashikant Dasharath Gawai, Technical Officer & Facility Manager (shashikant@niab.org.in)

Advanced Optical Microscope Facility
 

Polarization Microscope

Leica DM750P 

Fluorescence Microscope

​  Olympus IX73 (inverted)

Fluorescence lifetime imaging

ISS TCSPC, USA

Confocal Imaging System

ISS XY galvo system, Olympus IX73

Services 

  • Imaging

  • Microfluidics

Multiphoton Microscope

​   Home-built, dual-output femtosecond laser (760–840 nm tunable, 1030 nm fixed)

Micro-engraving system

Home-built, dual-output femtosecond laser (760–840 nm tunable, 1030 nm fixed)

Contact: Faculty-in Charge: Dr. Nirmal Mazumder (nirmal.mazumder@manipal.edu)

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