Imaging Center Campus Essen

Imaging Center Campus Essen - ICCE

Imaging core facility of the Center of Medical Biotechnology (ZMB) at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

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Services of the ICCE

Services
Images: © C.Schubert/ZMB

The ICCE provides the following services for all ZMB researchers and collaborating groups of the University Duisburg-Essen or external universities and research institutions:

  • state-of-the-art equipment for advanced light microscopy techniques,
  • technical advice in sample preparation and
  • support in image analysis

Please, contact us to discuss if your project can be conducted at our microscope systems.

Highlights & News

Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy

April, 2025

Expansion microscopy  was published in 2015 by Fei Chen, Paul W. Tillberg and Ed Boyden in Science. It is a method utilizing polymers to expand biological samples to increase their size. Since 2015 several variations were developed, for example the Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to peserve ultrastructures for imaging by the Guichard lab. We got the opportunity to visit the Musacchio lab, our partners within the CRC1430, to learn this method from Verena Cmentowski.

 

If you are interested in using/learning this method for imaging, please contact us.

New ICCE office location

April, 2025

We are happy to announce that we moved to a new office. You will find us now in S03 S00 A37, close to the ZMB office.

© UDE/Anzhela Galstyan

New Publication of ICCE User Group

December, 2024

UDE scientists around Junior Professor Anzhela Galstyan and the ICCE used electrospinning to create photoactive membranes and investigate their potential antibacterial role. With FLIM measurements at our CLSM Leica SP8X active sites within the membrane were discovered and the study was published in the journal Angewandte Chemie

For further information please visit the university website:

UDE press release

 

Your Acknowlegment Matters

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If you publish data recorded on one of our instruments please acknowledge the ICCE. We need a good publication record - as much as you do - to apply for research grants and funding for new equipment.

In case of substantial scientific contributions, the respective ICCE member needs to be listed as a co-author on the publication.

Moreover, the acknowledgement of the publication MUST include a reference to the corresponding funding number given with the instrument name. You can find the correct project funding numbers on the respective equipment page.
Pay attention to the spelling of the ZMB in the affiliations. It should be uniformly named Center of Medical Biotechnology. Currently, spellings such as “Centre” or “Center for” are very common.

Please contact us before you submit a publication. We will be happy to help.

Your Acknowlegement matters!

 

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