Students from the Doty Lab at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences have secured a Leica Stellaris Fluorescent Confocal Microscope through support from UW’s Student Technology Fee. The microscope is available for use by UW students, faculty and staff at the Winkenwerder Forest Science Laboratory on campus. 

Microscope Details 

STELLARIS is a true confocal point scanning system, including a White Light Laser as excitation light source, an Acousto Optical Beam Splitter (AOBS) and a highly sensitive, prism-based spectral detection design with computer controlled adjustable bandwidth for all fluorescence channels. The extended detection range up to 850 nm plus the excitation range in the visible from 440 nm up to 790 nm (different models available on request) allow the application and separation of an extended range of spectrally overlapping fluorophores.

Including TauSense, a set of tools based on fluorescence lifetime information, it provides an additional contrast, improved image quality and separation of spectrally overlapping fluorophores. LIGHTNING allows for optimal extraction of image details and maximum resolution, thus expanding the imaging portfolio both in the classical range and beyond the diffraction limit.

Microscope Uses

Life Science Research Uses/Applications here

Industrial Microscopy Uses/Applications here 

Request Training and Use of Microscope

If you’d like to access and use the microscope please fill out this Google Form. Training is required. 

If you have specific questions about the microscope outside of training and use please email Professor Sharon Doty or grad student Emma Gomez-Rivas.

Sharon Doty – sldoty@uw.edu

Emma Gomez-Rivas – egomezr7@uw.edu

Learn more about the Leica Stellaris from the product brochure here