Welcome to the Microscopy and Electrophysiology Facility

This website contains an overview of the microscopes housed in the Faculty of Science, information and user guides on the LSM 700, and a link to book the LSM 700 for your own use.

Sponsors:

  • National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
  • Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
  • University of Waterloo

News

A Zeiss Personal 700 confocal microscope is available to use for Waterloo faculty to use, housed in Biology 1-173 for $20 per hour cost for training or use.

It has 10x, 20x, 40x (oil), 63x (oil), 100x (oil) objectives.

DIC is available for all except the 10x objectives.

Solid state confocal laser lines: 405 nm (UV), 488 (green), 555 (red), 639 (far red).

Motorized X-Y stage for tiling and mark&find, LED light source for epi-fluorescence