About our microscopes

We have three microscopes, housed in the fabulous Russian Tea Room, that are in various stages of construction.

Ivan the Terrible.

This deconvolution and image restoration microscope, made by Applied Precision, features an Olympus IX70 microscope with a Deltavision image aquisition and analysis package. One nasty dude.
Vlad the Impaler.

This Nikon TE-2000E stand is a state of the art photobleaching and spinning disc confocal microscope. It is outfitted with an 8 channel Neos AOTF and Roper Scientific 512B EMCCD camera.

Yes, we know he was not Russian. But being the real-life Dracula earned him some points.

Krupskaia.

A Nikon Eclipse 80i stand with objectives the size of baseball bats.

Wife of Lenin and overall a lovely lady.



There are lots of good references on-line about microscopy. One of the most thorough is Molecular Expressions, a library of information for both microscopists and anyone who is interested in how microscopes work and what they can do. For a more basic introduction, try the one at HowStuffWorks.