Two new microscopes have been installed in the Pelling Lab by Nikon Canada under our new partnership agreement. The newly installed systems consist of two fully motorized Eclipse Ti-E microscopes capable of DIC/Phase/Epi-Fluorescence imaging modes. One Ti-E is equipped with a laser total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) observation unit and the second is equipped with the new A1R-A1 resonant scanner high speed confocal (First in Canada) and a Perfect Focus System (PFS). This facility is supported by the Canada Foundation of Innovation - Leaders Opportunities Fund, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, the Canada Research Chairs Program, the University of Ottawa and Nikon Canada - Microscopes and Optical Instruments.

The delivery!


The two Ti-E microscope stands


Assembly


Side view


Top view - Perfect Focus System


Attaching the illumination tube


Pillar and stage are on!


Graduate student Zeinab Al-Rekabi (L) and Nikon rep Alexadra Mohr (R)


Front view


Almost there!


Unpacking the confocal unit - a blurry Chris Cathcart (L) and Andre Levesque (R) from Nikon


A1R scanner - the first in Canada!


Chaos in the lab!


More chaos in the lab!


Chaos in the hallway!


Almost two microscopes


Laser system for the confocal - 4 lasers covering the visible spectrum


Laser system from above


The guts of the confocal


TIRFM and confocal almost complete


All done!