Skip to main content

Illinois IGB

Core Facilities

Core Facilities: What's New

Zeiss 880 Airyscan Upgrade

The Core Zeiss 880 will be upgraded next week to run 4 times faster.

Zeiss officially announced a 4x speed improvement for their Airyscan detector May 3, 2016.  The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology has been selected as a Demo site and Zeiss will be installing the upgrade in our instrument May 9, 2016.  Zeiss will also be presenting a talk Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at noon covering the details.  This is your chance to be the first in the nation to collect data from this cutting edge instrument.

  • Performance 27 fps at 480 X 480.

  • Liner scanning give 80% of scan time for photon collection.

  • Equal pixel integration time.

If you would like to use the fast mode, the Core will be hosting free demonstration times on May 16-18, 2016.  Please contact Joyce, Glenn or Shiv to schedule a time.

Zeiss LSM 880 with Airyscan Product Information

Airyscan with Fast Mode - Introductory White Paper