Light microscopy
Find out about our cutting-edge light microscopy facilities and platforms.
The Faculty’s Light Microscopy Facilities provide a wide range of cutting-edge imaging systems for advanced microscopy, including confocal, multi-photon and super-resolution modalities, enabling users to address research questions in living systems across temporal and spatial scales.
UCL-ZEISS Multiscale Imaging Centre (UZMIC)
UZMIC was created in 2019, through a combined £4M investment shared between UCL and ZEISS. This new centre enables seamless dynamic imaging across scales, from single molecule resolution to organelles, cells and tissues, and across volumes, from a single sample to high throughput analysis.
Location | Anatomy Building
Contact details | Chris Thrasivoulou c.thrasivoulou@ucl.ac.uk
Centre for Cell and Molecular Dynamics
The CCMD is a leading Imaging Science Technology Platform accessible for all UCL researchers as well as external universities and occasional industry users, with a long track record of running advanced light microscopy imaging systems within the Division of Biosciences.
Location | Anatomy Building
Contact details | Chris Thrasivoulou c.thrasivoulou@ucl.ac.uk
Light and Super-resolution Microscopy
The LMCB Light Microscopy Platform supports research at the LMCB and UCL by providing access to advanced light microscopy technologies and expertise in image acquisition and analysis. The UCL Super-resolution Facility (SuRF) provides access to and expertise in such techniques as super-resolution by optical reassignment (SoRa), structured illumination microscopy (SIM), stimulated emission depletion (STED) and single molecule localisation microscopy (SMLM).
Location | LMCB Building
Contact details | Andrew Vaughan andrew.vaughan@ucl.ac.uk
Confocal Microscopy
Location | School of Pharmacy Building
Contact details | David Gathercole d.gathercole@ucl.ac.uk
High Content Biology Lab
The HCBL provides expertise and cutting-edge technology to facilitate research projects aimed at understanding fundamental processes in cell biology as well as drug discovery. Support is provided for running of high throughput, high-content, or siRNA screenings, low to medium throughput projects with assay development and equipment, and imaging assays with multiple conditions or readouts including fast response assays.
Location | Anatomy Building
Contact details | Christin Luft c.luft@ucl.ac.uk
Advanced Microscopy Facility
The AMF provides the SWC’s platform for high-throughput imaging of whole organs using serial section or lightsheet microscopy. We also assist with multi-photon functional imaging throughout the Centre.
Location | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Contact details | Rob Campbell rob.campbell@ucl.ac.uk