Light Microscope Facility (LMF)

Dr. Hans-Ulrich Fried
Head of Light Microscope Facility
hans.fried(at)dzne.de
+49 228 43302-894

The Light Microscope Facility (LMF) runs and maintains up to date equipment based on light microscopes. The LMF operates on a cost recovery basis were systems as well as technical support can be booked. We currently have more than 30 different advanced microscope systems with a variety of accessory equipment like environmental chambers, fully equipped small animal operation tables or micromanipulators. The LMF personnel have a wide-area scientific and technical background to ideally support your experiments. External users are welcome.

Equipment

Become a LMF User

  1. Contact Dr. Hans Fried
  2. Personal meeting with LMF staff to discuss the project (biological question, sample preparation, and data analysis) and to explain the booking/charging system.
  3. Agree and sign the rules.
  4. Depending on your background and the planed experiments you might need a theoretical introduction.
  5. Introduction to the hard- and software. Depending on your background a second or even a third training session might be necessary.

Terms of Use and Prices

Group Members

TitelNamePosition/ActivitiesContact
 Carmen RudertOffice Assistantcarmen.rudert(at)dzne.de
+49 228 43302-685
Dr.Hans-Ulrich FriedService Leader of Light Microscope Facilityhans.fried(at)dzne.de
Dr.Ireen KönigWissenschaftliche MitarbeiterinIreen.Koenig(at)dzne.de
Dr.Severin FilserWissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiterseverin.filser(at)dzne.de
Dr.Yangting FuWissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiteryangting.fu(at)dzne.de
 Mascha HammerStudentische Hilfskraft (SHK)mascha.hammer(at)dzne.de

Equipment New

The LMF has more than 30 different microscope setups and a large selection of accessory equipment. Click on the links to learn more about our equipment:

  • confocal microscopes
  • two- and three-photon microscopes
  • epi-fluorescence and widefield microscopes
  • stereology microscopes
  • microdissection setup
  • single plain illumination microscope
  • slide scanner
  • super resolution microscopes (STED)
  • spinning disk setup.
  • accessory equipment