IMPACT is a multi-user optical microscopy facility of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS) in the Edinburgh Medical School : Biomedical Sciences. Our aim is to provide high quality imaging equipment and support for the biomedical and life science research community in Edinburgh.At present the facility hosts a Nikon AXR-NSPARC super-resolution confocal microscope, an upright Zeiss confocal system (LSM800 with Airy scan2) and a Leica SP8 confocal. In addition we have an Olympus total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscope capable of 4 colour simultaneous imaging.We also have a number of inverted and upright widefield capable of fluorescence and histological imaging. One system is dedicated to live cell imaging.The IMPACT facility also has a dedicated computer suite with the following software packages for image analysis: Huygens, Imaris, Arivis Pro, Matlab, Zen Blue, NIS Elements and Image J/Fiji.There are two facility staff within IMPACT who are available to help with experimental planning, microscope training, image processing and data analysis.IMPACT provides imaging and image analysis support for students and researchers from within the University of Edinburgh and is also available to external users. People IMPACT Imaging facility is supported by: Our location The IMPACT facility is located in the Hugh Robson Building, 15 George Square. This article was published on 2024-08-05
