Odyssey® DLx Infrared Imaging System (LI-COR) | Biomedical and Molecular Sciences | School of Medicine

The Odyssey® DLx Infrared Imaging System gives accurate, reproducible quantitative Western blotting results with near-infrared fluorescence. It supports numerous applications, including Western blots, In-Cell Western™ Assays and other plate-based assays, cell-based assays, EMSA, DNA gel documentation, Coomassie gel imaging, protein arrays, tissue section and organ imaging. Scan area is 25 x 25 cm. This imager has a simple, intuitive interface. LI-COR Acquisition Software is an easy-to-use and walks the user through a streamlined process of image acquisition.

Tutorial for LI-COR: LI-COR Tutorial

Strong and faint bands can be seen clearly in the same image, with great sensitivity and no image saturation.
Membranes have the lowest background in the infrared region, which provides optimal signal-to-noise ratios.
Over 6 logs/ Optical Density (OD) of dynamic range in a single acquisition compared to films 2 OD of linear range.
Multiplex with two fluorescent colors to see even more data.
Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence delivers consistent signals that aren’t affected by timing.

Fees

Service	Cost
Instrument	$3/10 minutes
Training	$10/session

Contact and Booking

Zhilin Chen (zc@queensu.ca; ext. 78238) and Christie Gilmour (gilmourc@queensu.ca; ext 36487)

Location

Botterell Hall Room 549