Transmission Electron Microscopy
FEI Tecnai T12 (with EDX) and Hitachi HT7800 (with tomography) - click here to find out more.
The BIU is equipped with a wide range of state of the art microscopes and associated equipment to support research and diagnostic imaging with a wide variety of different imaging modalities; light, electrons and X-rays.
Scanning Electron Microscopy
Tescan Clara with serial block face imaging and EDX - second system coming soon - click here to find out more.
Confocal and Lightsheet Microscopy
Leica SP5 and Leica SP8 laser scanning confocal microscopes on Leica inverted microscope frames and LaVision Ultramicroscope II light sheet microscope - click here to find out more.
Live Cell Imaging
Olympus IX81 fully automated, inverted phase contrast and fluorescence system - click here to find out more.
Digital Microscopy
Olympus dotSlide manual brightfield slide scanners (x2) and Olympus VS110 high throughput slide scanner with fluorescence and phase contrast imaging - click here to find out more.
MicroCT and Whole Animal Imaging
A Milabs whole animal microCT and optical imaging system and Nikon Medex 1 and Medex 2 microCT instruments designed for X-ray histology / soft tissue / low contrast imaging - click here to find out more.
General Photomicroscopy
A range of Olympus, Zeiss and Nikon compound and dissecting photomicroscopes with brightfield, darkfield, phase contrast, polarising, fluorescence and DIC imaging modalities - click here to find out more.
Image Processing and Analysis
Very high end graphics workstations with touchscreen monitors and a wide range of 2D and 3D image processing and analysis software linked to a multiterabyte network filestore - click here to find out more.
Spatial Biology
Bruker-Nanostring CosMx and GeoMx instruments with AtoMx online analysis platform, 10x Genomics Visium Cytassist. CosMx and GeoMx instruments are run as a service by BIU - click here to find out more.
Coming Soon
A second serial block face SEM system, STED super resolution system, Cryo-fluorescence Tomography system - click here to find out more.
Notes:
- Instrument time on our transmission and scanning electron microscopes, confocals, lightsheet, slide scanning, timelapse and CT systems is charged for in order to cover the costs of service contacts, repairs, upgrades, reagents and consumables.
- For Grantholders, access charges should be costed into, and itemised on, all University of Southampton grant applications at full economic cost. For current charges for access and services, and advice on including facility access in grant applications please contact Patricia Goggin .
- After tuition, users are expected to drive our instruments for themselves. Microscope tuition is not charged for and help and advice are always freely available.
- Sample processing charges only apply if this is carried out by BIU staff on behalf of users. A charge is not usually made for users who process their own material. After tuition, students will be expected to do all of their own processing and cutting and therefore will not be charged for this.
- We operate an online booking system for all of our equipment (only available within the UoS domain). Please contact Dave Johnston to be added to the relevant user groups for equipment you have been trained to used.