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Tampere Imaging Facility - light microscopy core

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Introduction

Tampere Imaging Facility (TIF) - light microscopy core

The light microscopy facility offers state-of-the-art equipment for mesoscopic and high resolution bioimaging of tissues, small model organisms, biomaterials, tissue engineering products and advanced cell cultures both in 2D and 3D thus offering services for both life scientists and biomedical engineers.

Tampere Imaging Facility (TIF) is a light microscopy core unit located in the Arvo building on the Kauppi campus of the Tampere University. It offers state-of-the-art imaging solutions for life and material scientists. Facility includes several microscope systems for bioimaging of living and fixed specimens: spinning disk and laser scanning confocal microscopes, structured illumination super-resolution microscope, and widefield microscopes. In addition to the fluorescent microsopes, there are data processing and analysis stations available with deconvolution, visualization and image quantification possibilities.

Light microscopy core facility provides training for users, organizes imaging related courses and actively participates teaching at the Tampere University. 

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Publishing results obtained at the Tampere Imaging Facility

All the users of the Tampere Imaging Facility (TIF) services are obligated to acknowledge the facility and Biocenter Finland (BF) in publications, prefereably using the following phrase:

“The authors acknowledge the Biocenter Finland (BF) and Tampere Imaging Facility (TIF) for the service.”

This facility is partly supported by the Biocenter Finland technology platform network.

Biocenter Finland logo.

TUNICRIS

In addition, we request that you add Tampere Imaging Facility as Facilities/Equipment for that publication in TUNICRIS.  

This allows us to monitor our contribution to the research community and helps us to gather funding to acquire new equipment.

Services for Companies

We are part of the three-year project: a collaborative platform for accelerating biomedical research and development through providing advanced microscopy services. The aim of the project is to make our services and knowledge better available also to the companies in the Pirkanmaa region. The project includes e.g. development of the facility's processes, clarifying the needs of companies in the area and performing private pilot projects according to companies’ exact needs. Read more about the project on its website.

Finnish Advanced Microscopy Node (FiAM) of Euro-BioImaging Finland

We belong to the Finnish Advanced Microscopy Node (FiAM) of Euro-BioImaging Finland together with bioimaging core facilities of Helsinki, Turku, Oulu and Eastern Finland.

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