Welcome to our latest lab member, the Nikon Spinning Disk Microscope. Purchased with the support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund and matching funds from the Ontario Research Fund, this microscope will be used extensively by all lab members and by other scientists in the CSB. The microscope features lasers and optics to excite UV, CFP, GFP, YFP, and RFP, and will also be used for photoactivation, photoconversion, and photobleaching (FRAP) studies. It also features a fully automated XYZ stage and piezo-Z drive, the CSU-W1 spinning disk and dual sCMOS setup allows ultra-fast simultaneous imaging of two wavelengths at a time. We’ve got lots of exciting questions to answer with this microscope and we welcome external users and collaborators!