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Core Facility Nikon Imaging Center (NIC)

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The Nikon Imaging Center at Heidelberg University, located centrally on campus at Bioquant INF267, provides access and training in a wide variety of light microscopy techniques for the life sciences.

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Project Request

All researchers of Heidelberg University, Heidelberg and Mannheim University Hospital, DKFZ, MPImF and EMBL can get training and access to the NIC microscopes. Training is mandatory, after which reserachers can use the equipment independently. The NIC staff is always available for advice and can help to improve image acquisition.

Illustrated Service Request Timeline with 7 steps: 1. First contact (nic@uni-hd.de) 2. Registration in booking software PPMS 3. Training request form 4. Project disussion -> instrument assignment 5. Training on selected microscope 6. Independent image acquisition 7. further support (optional) project optimization, image analysis/ deconvolution/ rendering

Fees per hour apply for microscope use, depending on type of instrumentation and user affiliation.

 

Equipment & Services

Contact

Dr. Ulrike Engel
Head of Facility

Room U05
BioQuant
INF 267
69120 Heidelberg

Phone: +49 6221 54 5652
ulrike.engel@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

 

Portrait photo: Ulrike Engel, a middle-aged white woman with straight brown hair a bit above shoulder length, smiles softly into the camera. She is placed in front of a light grey background, wearing a grey-blue button-up top, which is not buttoned all the way, but rather a bit légère.

Dr. Christian Ackermann
Assistant / Training on most Set-Ups
christian.ackermann@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
 

Dr. Nicolas Dross
2 Photon and Light Sheet Specialist / PPMS Contact Person
nicolas.dross@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Publications

Selection of recent publications with significant contribution of the Nikon Imaging Center

Table

Englert, D., E.M. Burger, F. Grun, M.S. Verma, J. Lackner, M. Lampe, B. Buhler, J. Schokolowski, G.U. Nienhaus, A. Jaschke, and M. Sunbul. 2023. Fast-exchanging spirocyclic rhodamine probes for aptamer-based super-resolution RNA imaging. Nat Commun. 14:3879. PMID: 37391423.
Garg, N., U.K. Stibler, B. Eismann, M. Mercker, B.G. Bergheim, A. Linn, P. Tuchscherer, U. Engel, S. Redl, A. Marciniak-Czochra, T.W. Holstein, M.W. Hess, and S. Ozbek. 2023. Non-muscle myosin II drives critical steps of nematocyst morphogenesis. iScience. 26:106291. PMID: 36936784.
Kubikova, J., G. Ubartaite, J. Metz, and M. Jeske. 2023. Structural basis for binding of Drosophila Smaug to the GPCR Smoothened and to the germline inducer Oskar. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120:e2304385120. PMID: 37523566.
Ohara, S., M. Rannap, K.I. Tsutsui, A. Draguhn, A.V. Egorov, and M.P. Witter. 2023. Hippocampal-medial entorhinal circuit is differently organized along the dorsoventral axis in rodents. Cell Rep. 42:112001. PMID: 36680772.
Seidl, C., F. Da Silva, K. Zhang, K. Wohlgemuth, H. Omran, and C. Niehrs. 2023. Mucociliary Wnt signaling promotes cilia biogenesis and beating. Nat Commun. 14:1259. PMID: 36878953.

Funding Resources

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