Biophotonics Core Facility

Open access services provided with the following techniques and services:

Q-Phase Holographic Microscope

• Holographic Incoherent-light-source Quantitative Phase Imaging (hiQPI)
• live tissue culture cells
• label-free
• unprecedented accuracy
• developed in-house/extensive expertise
• produced by Telight

Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy

• correlative imaging with hiQPI
• Zeiss LSM 980

Support with tissue culture and observation chambers

Support with image processing and data analysis

How to register for our core facility, undergo training and start cell cultivation and imaging your samples?

1. Registration to a booking system (see Booking or Booking system CEITEC -> Biophotonics Core Facility)
2. Choose the service - firstly training (cell cultivation/microscopy imaging Q-Phase, LSM 980)
3. Undergo training -> receiving the certificate
4. Reservation of the instrument in the Booking

Service option

1. Full service - Biophotonics laboratory staff assistance: process the samples (preparation and sample acquisition) according to the user´s requirements. 
2. Self-service - self-sample preparation, measurement/imaging, and data post-processing*. 

*Participation of laboratory staff is possible by agreement.

Service option for internal academic users:

      Users who wish to use the laboratory (by themselves (self-service) or with the assistance of an employee (full service)) must prove affiliation to an academic institution. This type of service allows users open access to the Biophotonics laboratories. The users can pay for individual measuring times on selected devices and work in a tissue culture laboratory or pay for annual unlimited access (see table). However, the self-service requires users to undergo proper training for working with biological samples in the laboratory, or training with the selected microscope. With the subsequently received certificates, the users can reserve working time in the booking system and thus have unlimited access to the Biophotonics laboratories. It is also possible to use the assistance of a trained employee - full service, with an additional charge for measuring hours.

      Users agree that the results will only be used for independent research purposes and will not be disclosed or sold to third parties.

There is also a possibility of single access and use of our microscopes, as well as possibility of data processing:

Self-service

   Full service

Service option for academic users:

      Users from faculties and academic environments other than BUT and CEITEC BUT who want to use the laboratory (by themselves (own service) or with the assistance of an employee (full service)) must prove their affiliation to an academic institution.

Self-service

 Full service

Service option for commercial users:

      Commercial users typically order sample preparation, measurement services and data analysis (optional) to be processed by CEITEC BCF staff. The users may be present as visitors under the supervision of authorized personnel during the measurements. Another possibility is they can undergo training and perform the measurements independently.

How to order full/self-service?

1. Contact the CEITEC BCF - Dr. Daniel Zicha or Dr. Tereza Chmelíková to arrange an appointment to discuss your processing requirements.
2. CEITEC BCF will send you a quotation for the services with information.
3. If there is a mutual agreement, please send the purchase order.

Self-service

Full service