GIGA-Cell Imaging
The Cell Imaging Core Facility is specialized in advanced light microscopy. It manages a wide range of state-of-the-art cell imaging systems and supports their use by offering training and advice to researchers.
Services
Spatial omics
Spatial omics uses cutting-edge technologies to detect up to thousands of mRNAs and proteins in tissue to understand the complex ways that cells interact and work together in organisms.
Wide-field microscopy
Several standard wide-field epifluorescence microscopes (upright or inverted) are available at the GIGA Cell Imaging core facility, enabling acquisition of bright-field, phase contrast, DIC or fluorescent images.
Confocal microscopy
Our confocal microscopes offer several advantages over conventional wide-field microscopes: greater control of depth of field, elimination of background information away from the focal plane and collection of serial optical sections from thick specimens.
High content microscopy
High-content screening (HCS) allows automated image acquisition and analysis to simultaneously measure of fluorescence intensity, kinetics, and morphology in living or fixed cells.
Specific microscopy
Microscope designed to image large samples or to retrieve additional information on the protein or DNA/RNA composition of tissues.
Image treatment and analysis
The most important rule to remember for image analysis is: if you put garbage in, you get garbage out! For this reason we strongly advise researchers to discuss their experimental design before acquiring their images.
GIGA-Cell Imaging platform at a glance
Testimony
Expertise of the facility
«The accessibility and expertise of the facility staff allowed us to efficiently dissect our structures. We are really satisfied by this platform and we will it considered for future projects».
Soizic Garaud, Ph.D, Molecular Immunology Unit, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
