Imaging

Originally sponsored by the James P. Wilmont Cancer Center, the acquisition and upgrading of the Amnis ImageStream was supported by NIH Grant 1 S10 RR023458-01A1 (C Jordan PI).

Amnis - ImageStream

Amnis - ImageStream GenX

 

Amnis ImageStream, a hybrid fluorescent microscope/flow cytometer. With this technology, one can collect morphological data on cells stained with up to four different fluorochromes at 5,000 events per minute. Coupled with the analytical packages, IDEAS, statistical rigor can be brought to answer questions such as:

 

ImageStream

Fee Structure

$50/hour

Guidelines - Coming Soon

Configurations

Brightfield - Each channel has a certain bandpass limit listed below.

  Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 3 Channel 4 Channel 5 Channel 6
BP OPEN 450/40 530/25 577/10 630/10 694/11

Darkfield - Each channel will resolve dyes of certain wavelengths as listed below.

  Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 3 Channel 4 Channel 5 Channel 6
BP 470-500 400-470 500-560 560-595 595-660 660-735

Based on the above tables, the laser configuration below can excite the listed dyes. After all three lasers, a table is shown that gives a visual representation of which channel each excited dye will be resolved.

488 Laser (Alphabetical by Channel)

Channel Channel 3 Channel 4 Channel 5 Channel 6
Fluor's AF 488 AF 546 7AAD Alexa 647
  Fluorescein AF 555 Alexa 610 Alexa 680
  GFP Cy-3 ECD Draq5
  Spectrum Green DSRed PI PE-Cy5
  Sybr Green PE PE-Alexa 610 PE-Cy5.5
  Syto Green   PE-Texas Red PE-Alexa 647
  YFP     PE-Alexa 680
        PerCP
        PerCP-Cy5.5
        QD-705

405 Laser (Alphabetical by Channel)

Channel Channel 2 Channel 3
Fluor's AF 405 Pacific Orange
  AF 430  
  Cascade Blue  
  DAPI  
  Hoechst  
  Marina Blue  
  Pacific Blue  

658 Laser (Alphabetical by Channel)

Channel Channel 6
Fluor's AF 647
  AF 680
  APC
  Cy5
  Cy5.5

Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 3 Channel 4 Channel 5 Channel 6
470-500 400-470 500-560 560-595 595-660 660-735
Darkfield Brightfield Brightfield Brightfield Brightfield Brightfield
  DAPI Fluorescein PE 7AAD PE-Cy5
  Hoechst AF 488 Cy-3 Alexa610/PE PE-Cy5.5
  Pacific Blue GFP AF 546 PI Alexa680/PE
  Cascade Blue Syto Green AF 555 PE-Texas Red Alexa647/PE
  Marina Blue Spectrum Green DSRed ECD PerCP
  AF 430 YFP     PerCP-Cy5.5
  AF 405 Sybr Green     Draq-5
    Pacific Orange     QD-705
          APC
          AF680
          AF647
          Cy5
          Cy5.5

Fluorchromes listed in black are excited by the 488nm laser, those listed in blue by the 405nm laser, and those in red by the 658nm laser.

 

ImageStream GenX

Fee Structure

$50/hour

Guidelines - Coming Soon

Configurations

Channel Specifics

  Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 3 Channel 4 Channel 5 Channel 6
Upper End

505

560 595 660 740 800
Peak 467.5 532.5 577.5 627.5 700 770
BP +/- 37.5 27.5 17.5 32.5 40 30
  Channel 7 Channel 8 Channel 9 Channel 10 Channel 11 Channel 12
Upper End

505

560 595 660 740 800
Peak 467.5 532.5 577.5 627.5 700 770
BP +/- 37.5 27.5 17.5 32.5 40 30

Based on the above table, the laser configuration below can excite the listed dyes. After each laser, a table is shown that gives a visual representation of which channel each excited dye will be resolved.

Full Fluorchrome List

Use the following link to access the full list of fluors usable on this instrument. If a fluor you would like to use is not listed, contact Dave Fuller in the Flow Core.

Flurochrome List

Upcoming Events

Wednesday at 10am, MRB 3-9654

10/14 Multichromatic Panel Design: Practical

10/28 An Introduction to Fluorescence Microscopy

11/3 - Tuesday at 11AM Introducing the Guava 8HT personal flow cytometer

Training Lecture - MC 3-6232

Sept 28, Oct 12, Oct 26