Advanced Medical BIOimaging Core Facility – Nikon Center of Excellence for Microscopy at the Charité
The Advanced Medical BIOimaging Core Facility (AMBIO) at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin has been established to provide both the infrastructure and expertise necessary for researchers with diverse backgrounds to efficiently perform advanced fluorescence microscopy imaging projects on the molecular, cellular and tissue level.
In partnership with Nikon Instruments Germany the Charité established the initial instrumental core of AMBIO as the first 'Nikon Center of Excellence' in Berlin.
AMBIO services include individual user training and assistance, and if necessary supervised image acquisition and guidance for data analysis.
AMBIO currently offers the following imaging modes:
- Widefield/ Deconvolution
- Point Scanning & Spinning Disk Confocal
- Single Molecule/ TIRF
- Multiphoton Scanning Confocal
- Super-Resolution (dSTORM/ PALM, DNA-PAINT, STED, SIM)
- Lattice Light Sheet
All AMBIO systems are equipped to allow multiplexed live-cell imaging projects, including time-lapse, multi-color, multi-position, large image scan and multi-well automation projects. The large range of available objectives offers imaging of diverse sizes of samples over scales ranging from the nanoscale (single molecules, sub-cellular structures) to the millimeter scale (tissues, small organs).
