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DBT Builder – IISER Kolkata STED Facility

Super-resolution nanoscopy

DBT Builder – IISER Kolkata STED Facility

A Facility Line STED super-resolution microscope from Abberior Instruments, built on an inverted Olympus IX83 body, with four excitation lasers (405, 488, 561, 640 nm) and a pulsed 775 nm STED laser. Adaptive-illumination methods (RESCue, DyMIN) allow live-cell imaging with substantially reduced photobleaching and phototoxicity, alongside FLIM capability, an Okolab stage-top incubator, and two single-photon-counting APD detectors.

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Faculty In-Charge
Prof. Mohit Prasad (mohitprasad@iiserkol.ac.in)
Technician
Shreya Ghosh (shreya08@iiserkol.ac.in) — booking via shreya08@iiserkol.ac.in for outside users
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