New Intravital Imaging Facility
The new Intravital Imaging Facility (IVI) is now open to researchers, enabling the imaging of neurons, blood vessels and organs in living animals over time.
The facility is equipped with a Leica Stellaris 8 multiphoton microscope offering state-of-the-art capabilities for visualising dynamic biological processes in living organisms.
It allows intravital imaging of, for example, Drosophila and zebrafish, as well as different animal organs, neurons, and vessels in living mouse brains over time with exceptional penetration depth. It is located in a brand new facility with capacity for animal housing during imaging experiments, support from expert staff and lab space for surgery and animal manipulation.
Unique new services thanks to collaboration across core facilities and research centres
The IVI is the first major collaboration between the Animal Core Facility (ACF) and the Core Facility for Integrated Bioimaging (CFIB) under the new Center for Core Facilities (CCF), in partnership with the LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center (SIC).
This collaboration brings together interdisciplinary expertise towards advanced imaging in vivo, involving support to generate transgenic animal models at the Transgenic Core facility, perform surgery for window implementation, and animal housing for longitudinal studies to support a wide range of life science applications.
“The Intravital Imaging Facility serves as a model for how the new Centre for Core Facilities will continue to develop its services by combining technologies and expertise across facilities to better support research,” says Director Clara Prats.
Contact
The facility is now fully operational and ready for imaging. Researchers interested in using the new service should contact Xiaowen Wang at CFIB.
Xiaowen Wang
Multiphoton Applications Specialist, Light Microscopy
Email: xiaowen.wang@sund.ku.dk