In October, a workshop entitled "Dragonfly 600 - Deeper Imaging. Deeper Insight. Deeper Understanding." In collaboration with ANDOR , we presented the new Dragonfly 600 spinning disk confocal microscope, which focuses on super-resolution localization imaging of DNA-PAINT and high-resolution 3D tissue imaging, and which builds on the successful Dragonfly 500 series.
Three key technological innovations of the Dragonfly 600 confocal microscope:
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HLE-700 - a laser engine with 2-7 multimode laser lines in a single chassis (up to 10 lines in a dual configuration) providing the high powers, from hundreds of mW to units of Watt in the 400-785 nm range, needed for single molecule imaging
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B-TIRF - a new Boreali TIRF module for super-resolution and single molecule imaging, taking advantage of the uniform sample illumination and power density provided by the patented Borealis system
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3D-SMLM - 3D super-resolution module providing parfocal astigmatic encoding for super-resolution in all imaging modalities (widefield imaging, confocal imaging, B-TIRF)
The workshop started with a free morning lecture, followed by hands-on workshops with the opportunity to image your own samples.
Many thanks to all CELLIM members for the opportunity to use the laboratory facilities for this workshop and for their help in organising it. We would also like to thank all the participants for the large turnout, enjoyable discussions, interesting samples and friendly atmosphere.