Multi-user equipment approved in grant 2014/24814-0: confocal microscope Zeiss (confocal system Lsm 880)

• Grant number: 16/09813-2
• Support Opportunities: Multi-user Equipment Program
• Start date: May 01, 2016
• End date: April 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Biology
• Principal Investigator: Gilberto Fernando Xavier
• Grantee: Gilberto Fernando Xavier
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Paulo
• Associated research grant: 14/24814-0 - Annual Implementation Plan of the Technical Reserve Share for Institutional Infrastructure Costs for Research - 2014, AP.RT.INST
• EMU web page: http://www.ib.usp.br/pesquisa/caimi-equipamentos?layout=edit&id=75
• Type of equipment: Caracterização de Materiais - Microscopia ótica - Confocal
• Manufacturer: Zeiss
• Model: LSM 880

Abstract

With the Confocal Microscope, together with the Electron and the Scanning Microscope recently acquired via projeto INFRA-USP, also from Carl Zeiss, it will be possible in the future to integrate both microscopes functionally, since both possess a communication module that affords dual analyses of fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy images. With that, it will be possible to perform compared morphological studies of high complexity, providing a unique tool of great importance for the elucidation of biological phenomena associated with morphofunctional nature. In this way, the incorporation of the new Confocal Microscope to the CAIMi will certainly bring great impact to the several research groups, increasing the quality of the academic and professional formation of undergrad and grad students. (AU)