Petra Haas , Dr.
Dr. Petra Haas studied Biology at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Massachusetts. In 2003, she moved to the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen to study collective migration in the Zebrafish lateral line. She finished her PhD in 2007 at EMBL in Heidelberg and continued working on fish development, now using Medaka as a model organism. After one year as Technical Support Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific, she joined Leica Microsystems in 2012 as Product Manager for Confocal Software and the Digital LightSheet (DLS).
Confocal and Digital Light Sheet Imaging
Optical imaging instrumentation can magnify tiny objects, zoom in on distant stars and reveal details that are invisible to the naked eye. But it notoriously suffers from an annoying problem: the…Read article
Light Sheet Microscopy Turned Vertically
Living cells and organisms often suffer from the high light intensities used for fluorescent imaging. Light sheet microscopy reduces phototoxic effects and bleaching by illuminating a specimen in only…Read article
DLS Sample Preparation: Using U-Shaped Glass Capillaries for Sample Mounting
The TCS SP8 DLS microscope system from Leica Microsystems is an innovative concept which integrates the Light Sheet Microscopy technology into the SP8 confocal platform. Due to its unique optical…Read article
Using a Rotation Device for DLS Sample Mounting
The TCS SP8 DLS from Leica Microsystems is an innovative concept to integrate the Light Sheet Microscopy technology into the confocal microscope. Due to its unique optical architecture samples can be…Read article
Using Mounting Frames for DLS Sample Preparation
Sample handling is an important topic in the context of Light Sheet Microscopy. The TCS SP8 DLS integrates Light Sheet technology into an inverted confocal platform and can hence make use of general…Read article