Equipment and Facilities

The facilities at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology include various laboratories, a lecture theatre, a practical room, an extensive library, a cafeteria and a computer centre.

Furthermore, there is a facility for keeping wild and laboratory mice, the so-called mouse house. There is also an experimental facility for conducting population ecology experiments with wild mice.

The equipment at our institute includes:

ZEISS LSM 980 with Airyscan 2:

Scan head with 405, 445, 488, 514, 561, 594 and 640 nm. Laser
High resolution module Airyscan 2
High speed module Multiplex
32 GaAsP + 2 PMT high-sensitivity detectors for multi-channel imaging and spectral imaging - inverse

ZEISS Axio Observer

Motorised stage
Incubator
Plan-Apochromat objectives: 5x, 10x, 20x, 32x W, 40x W and 63x oil - Transmitted light detector
Control computer with ZEN software
Software modules: Tiles and Positions
System table Actively regulated

10X Genomics Chromium™ Single Cell Controller

Electroporator and microinjector for in ovo work

BioTek Epoch 2 Microplate Spectrophotometer