Leica Collaboration: Leica and the EMBL Imaging Centre

Find out how to get open access to cutting-edge imaging technology and support at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Imaging Centre.

Leica and the EMBL Imaging Centre – Enabling Open Access

Throughout its history, Leica has enthusiastically developed relationships with academic and scientific research institutions to advance scientific understanding through microscopy. Now, thanks to our special partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, researchers can gain access to cutting edge sample-prep and imaging technology.

By supporting EMBL’s drive to better understand the molecular basis of life through the provision of the latest technologies and expert support for a wide range of scientific and experimental services, Leica helps scientists push the boundaries of their research further and unlock greater insights.

Leica is among four industrial partners which helped to realize the vision of the EMBL Imaging Centre, which officially opened in 2022.

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Latest Updates

10-14 June 2023, Heidelberg, Germany – the course focusing on fluorescence lifetime-based readouts organized with the EMBL Imaging Centre gathered…

EM ICE demonstrated during the course by Andreia Pinto

The EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) practical course took place between the 12th and the 17th of February 2023. It covered all steps of…

Marko Lampe (Scientific Officer at the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, EMBL) setting up the STELLARIS 8 STED for the virtual course

Jointly organized by Leica Microsystems and EMBL, this virtual course held between the 8th and 15th of July 2022, provided attendees with deeper…

EMBL IC (courtesy of EMBL)

The EMBL Imaging Centre was inaugurated on the 30th of June 2022, welcoming representatives from politics, industry and research. The center was…

Leica booth before official opening of the event

The EMBL in Heidelberg hosted its first Scientific Symposium at the EMBL Imaging Centre on the 30th of May 2022, featuring talks about leading edge…

Interviews

Interview with Yassin Harim, PhD Student at German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg

Gain insights into 3D- whole mouse brain imaging using multicolor immunofluorescence! According to our guest user from the German Cancer Research Center, using THUNDER Imager Live cell at the EMBL IC was “…the perfect solution to get very high-quality images and also to spend little time on imaging because it's just so fast to acquire each individual slide”.

Interview with Virginia Pierini – Service Manager EMBL IC, Heidelberg. Virginia Pierini is supporting the operation of the EMBL Imaging Centre regarding all its services, with a special focus on users. She is the IC’s point of contact for all users, providing help around access procedures, the project execution as well as user training.

Interview with Virginia Pierini, Service Manager EMBL IC, Heidelberg

Virginia Pierini is supporting the operation of the EMBL Imaging Centre regarding all its services, with a special focus on users. She is the IC’s point of contact for all users, providing help around access procedures, the project execution as well as user training.

Interview with Giorgia Susin, PhD Student, University of Trento, Italy

Giorgia Susin studies non-coding RNA transport in Xenopus laevis neurons using the STELLARIS microscope to unveil RNA-organelles interactions and enhance understanding of RNA transport. By performing live super-resolution imaging with TauSTED XTend for minimal light exposure, she preserved sample integrity while achieving high-resolution insights.

The EMBL Imaging Centre houses the latest state-of-the-art instrumentation from Leica and others, as well as those developed in EMBL research groups.

The EMBL IC offers researchers access to scientific experts from both academia as well as industry, providing its users with the opportunity to perform cutting-edge science with a suite of tools and support that are unavailable to most scientists.

Leica experts are on-site permanently at the EMBL IC to empower researchers to use the data from its advanced imaging systems in order to achieve groundbreaking insights.

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EMBL related articles

Complete camera overview of EM grid recorded with 3 channels. Inserts displaying the positions, where superresolved 3D confocal images were recorded. 3D renderings of these positions are shown in the zoomed inserts. Fluorescence channels (nuclei by Hoechst, blue; mitochondria by MitoTracker Green, green; lipid Droplets by Bodipy and Crimson Beads, red). Width of a grid square is 90 ?m, width of a grid bar is 35 ?m. Samples kindly provided by Ievgeniia Zagoriy, Mahamid-Group, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

From Bench to Beam: A Complete Correlative Cryo Light Microscopy Workflow

In the webinar entitled "A Multimodal Vitreous Crusade, a Cryo Correlative Workflow from Bench to Beam" a team of experts discusses the exciting world of correlative workflows for structural biology…

Harnessing Microfluidics to Maintain Cell Health During Live-Cell Imaging

VIDEO ON DEMAND - In this webinar on-demand, we will use microfluidics to explore the effect of shear stress on cell morphology, examine the effect of nutrient replenishment on cellular growth during…
Two-color caspase assay with tile scan. U2OS cells were treated with the nuclear marker DRAQ5 (magenta) and CellEvent™ (yellow).

Following Multiple Events during Staurosporine Apoptosis

In this video on demand, we show how adding additional markers to an apoptosis kit can markedly increase the amount of information a researcher can obtain from the same experiment. The simultaneous…
Untreated Hela Kyoto cells stained to show the nucleus (Hoechst, blue), the cis-golgi matrix protein GM130 (AF488, green), and the trans-golgi network membrane protein TGN46 (AF647, red).

Golgi Organizational Changes in Response to Cell Stress

In this video on demand, our special guest George Galea from EMBL Heidelberg will look at HeLa Kyoto cells treated with various chemotherapeutic agents to investigate their effect on the Golgi complex…
Image of a single slice taken from a zebrafish heart showing the ventricle with an injury in the lower area. Nuclei of all cells are indicated with blue, nuclei of the cardiomyocyte heart muscle cells with green, and the proliferating cells with red. Courtesy of Laura Peces-Barba Castaño, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Germany.

Imaging of Cardiac Tissue Regeneration in Zebrafish

Learn how to image cardiac tissue regeneration in zebrafish focusing on cell proliferation and response during recovery with Laura Peces-Barba Castaño from the Max Planck Institute.

How Does The Cytoskeleton Transport Molecules?

VIDEO ON DEMAND - See how 3D cysts derived from MDCK cells help scientists understand how proteins are transported and recycled in tissues and the role of the cytoskeleton in this transport.
Developing zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryo, from sphere stage to somite stages.

Studying Early Phase Development of Zebrafish Embryos

This video on demand focuses on combining widefield and confocal imaging to study the early-stage development of zebrafish embryos (Danio rerio), from oocyte to multicellular stage.
U2OS cells stained with Hoechst for nuclei (blue), MitoTracker green (Mitochondria structure, green) and TMRE (active mitochondria, magenta) and SiR for tubulin (red). Simultaneous acquisition of four channel large area overview using Spiral scan feature using the 10x/1.20 CS2 Water MotCORR objective.

How To Get Multi Label Experiment Data With Full Spatiotemporal Correlation

This video on demand focuses on the special challenges of live cell experiments. Our hosts Lynne Turnbull and Oliver Schlicker use the example of studying the mitochondrial activity of live cells.…
Correlation of markers in the LM and the FIB image.

How to Target Fluorescent Structures in 3D for Cryo-FIB Milling

This article describes the major steps of the cryo-electron tomography workflow including super-resolution cryo-confocal microscopy. We describe how subcellular structures can be precisely located in…
Root-hypocotyl junction of Arabidopsis thaliana. Image acquired with TauContrast. Sample courtesy: Dr. Melanie Krebs, COS, University of Heidelberg.

Benefits of TauContrast to Image Complex Samples

In this interview, Dr. Timo Zimmermann talks about his experience with the application of TauSense tools and their potential for the investigation of demanding samples such as thick samples or…

Meet the Leica Team at the EMBL IC

Robert Kirmse

Robert received his PhD from the DKFZ and University of Heidelberg. As post-doc, he worked on tumor cell invasion at BioQuant, Heidelberg and in cryo EM at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He joined Leica in 2019 as senior manager for sample preparation and site lead in Vienna. Since October 2022 he leads Leica’s EMBL IC team for Scientific Innovation.

Falco Krüger

Falco holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Joining Leica in 2018 as an Advanced Workflow Specialist, he has since progressed to lead the team of Life Science Application Managers. Currently, Falco is also responsible for overseeing the OEM & Licensing Business Development at Leica Microsystems.

Andrea Mülter

Andrea joined Leica as product manager. After leading the global application team, she currently manages Leica’s knowledge program and strategic relations with leading scientists. She obtained her PhD at NIH with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and then worked with Ursula Klingmüller at DKFZ in Heidelberg to study signal transduction by systems biology.

Andreia Pinto

Andreia worked as an electron microscopy specialist in Lisbon for 11 years. In 2019, she moved to London to finish her PhD and work in the fields of AI and Covid-19. Currently, she is an Advanced Workflow Specialist at Leica Microsystems and is based at the EMBL Imaging Centre in Heidelberg.

EMBL collaboration – a timeline

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