Spinning disk confocal microscope

• Subject Area: Neurosciences
• Term: Funded in 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 429332012

The Faculty of Biology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz does not have a spinning disk confocal microscope. Recent recruitment of several new faculty members in addition to new projects of already established faculty members at the University require the acquisition of a spinning disk confocal microscope system. High-speed live cell imaging coupled to high resolution and high imaging sensitivity, high-speed ablation laser and minimal bleaching of the samples during time-lapse live cell imaging are required and critical for the projects of several research groups of the Faculty of Biology. The acquisition of a spinning disk confocal microscope is thus mandatory to allow new faculty members to continue their projects in the Faculty of Biology at JGU Mainz and for existing faculty members to carry out their new projects. The current projects of the Faculty of Biology requiring a spinning disk confocal microscope include studies of nervous system degeneration and regeneration modelled in mammalian cell cultures in microfluidic devices, protein complex assembly and disassembly, trafficking, targeting and turnover in fission yeast, Drosophila motoneurons and mammalian cells.

• DFG Programme: Major Research Instrumentation
• Major Instrumentation: Konfokales Spinning-Disk Mikroskop
• Instrumentation Group: 5090 Spezialmikroskope
• Applicant Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Leader: Professorin Dr. Claire Jacob