The NIC has a conventional upright epifluorescence microscope, the Olympus BX60. It features 4 cubes for DAPI (UV excitation), GFP (blue excitation) with long pass or short pass emission, and Rhodamine (green excitation). This microscope has 2.5x, 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x, and 60x objectives.
In addition to fluorescence, the NIC Olympus microscope has excellent brightfield optics including DIC. For special applications it is possible to use this instrument for dark field or polarizing microscopy.
The color camera is an Olympus DP 72, with 12.8 megapixels and 24 bit RGB. This camera is run by Olympus’ cellSens software.
