“Lumencor’s generous support as a corporate sponsor of My Green Lab has enabled us to bring the message of sustainability in the form of clean lighting practices to labs across the state of California. We have addressed students, postdocs, PIs, sustainability directors, EH&S and facility members, and other key stakeholders about environmental responsibility in the lab. We are also working with numerous manufacturers to benchmark energy efficient equipment for laboratories. The testing we’ve done has shown that Lumencor’s light sources are not only mercury free but also energy efficient.”

Allison Paradise, My Green Lab

“The illumination is even across the field of view through the eyepieces, which is larger than that of the camera detection area. An additional attraction is the rapid electronic switching between excitation channels, providing a further decrease in acquisition speed compared to microscopes equipped with mechanical filter wheels.”

Aurelie Snyder, OHSU

“There are several factors that keep me up at night running a facility like ours. Firstly, our equipment has to work to specification 100% of the time, in the face of constant demand. Secondly, because we are a chargeback facility, doing everything possible to keep costs low and performance optimal is critical. There is also a growing requirement to do longer-term (hours to days) live cell imaging. Minimizing the negative impacts of live cell photosensitivity is critical to our facility users.”

Mark Sanders, University of Minnesota

“The Lumencor SPECTRA X features fast switching times between excitation wavelengths, which can be triggered from the camera. In this way, we can acquire multicolor images at 100 frames per second. Combined with a triggered piezoelectric Z-stage, we can now acquire multicolor Z-stacks at 100 frames per second. This is not possible with a conventional arc lamp source.”

Kurt Thorn, University of California, SF

“Lumencor´s SOLA SM light engines are a great alternative to traditional mercury lamps. They are stable over time, their illumination is spatially uniform, they have a long lifespan and there is no performance drop-off over repeated switching cycles.In addition, the solid state illuminators don´t need to warm up and can be switched off and on instantaneously. You have the best of both worlds: system performance is optimized and money is saved because of reduced down time. Together with lower material and energy costs and fewer maintenance demands, this makes the SOLA SM an optimal light source for our service facility.”

Pawel Pasierbek, PhD., IMP and IMBA

“The overall challenge is always convincing users that the hardware can deliver for a price that makes sense. Illumination for research-grade microscopy presents the particular challenge of having a wide range 
of technical requirements (wavelength, power, spatial and temporal distribution). From my side, I first wanted to know that users were happy with the technical features of Lumencor light engines. I can’t promote something they don’t actually want. After organizing the purchase of 5 Lumencor light engines for the University of Edinburgh I’m happy to report I’ve heard nothing but praise for the new systems.”

Martin Farley, The University of Edinburgh