History

CISUP, the Center for Instrumentation Sharing of the University of Pisa, was founded in 2018 to develop and manage an interdepartmental network of state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation.
Its mission is to optimize laboratory resources, foster cutting-edge research, develop innovative technologies and support higher education at the national and international level.

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Milestones

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• CISUP foundation through C.d.A approval on 12 april 2018
• Director: Prof. Simone Capaccioli by Rectoral Decree D.R. 50554 of 03/08/2018

• Approval of CISUP Guidelines by Rectoral Decree D.R. 189/01.2019
• Deputy Director: Prof. Alessandra Braca by Director provision 02/2019
• New Instruments (donations)
  • AFM Nanoscope Veeco (from the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry – University of Pisa)
  • Flash Differential Scanning Calorimetry DSC2+ (from the Department of Physics – University of Pisa)
• New Staff: Dott. Paoli Gabriele (Technical Assistance – Logistic)
• New Instruments (donations)
  • Field-emission scanning electron microscope FEI ESEM-FEG Quanta 450 (from the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering – University of Pisa)
  • Mass Spectrometer AB Sciex Qtrap 6500+ (from the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Department of Surgical, Medical and Molecular Pathology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Translational Research and of New Surgical and Medical Technologies – University of Pisa)
• New Instruments (acquisitions)
  • Orbitrap Q Exactive Plus Mass Spectrometer (Department of Pharmacy – University of Pisa)
  • Solid state Mass Spectrometer NMR (Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry – University of Pisa)

• New instruments (acquisitions)
  • High vacuum sputter and C-thread coater LEICA EM ACE 600 (Department of Physics – University of Pisa)
  • MBraun solutions glove box with vacuum deposition system (Department of Physics – University of Pisa)
  • Kenosistec electron-beam evaporator (Department of Physics – University of Pisa)
  • Multi-Shot Pyrolyzer connected to GC/MS (Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry– University of Pisa)
  • FluidFM μ3Dprinter, CytoSurge (Department of Information Engineering – University of Pisa)
  • PerturbatIonAl NeurO LAb – PIANOLA (Cisanello hospital – University of Pisa)
  • Operetta High Content Imaging System (Retrovirus Center – University of Pisa)
• New instruments (donations)
  • Samsung RS85 Premium Ultrasound System (Dr. Mian to Cisanello Hospital – University of Pisa)
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) with laser ablation (Department of Earth Science – University of Pisa)

• New instruments (acquisitions)
  • High Resolution Field Emission Gun Transmission Electron Microscope 200kV (HR-FEG-TEM JEM-F200) (Department of Earth Science – University of Pisa)
• New Staff: Roberta Toma (Administrative staff)
• New project
  • CISUP partner of the Electron Flash Therapy project funded by the Fondazione Pisa along with ’Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, CNR and INFN (October 15)

• New instruments (acquisitions)
  • Electron Flash (Santa Chiara Hospital, U.O. radiotherapy – University of Pisa)
  • Crio Single Crystal X-RAY Diffractometer (SC-XRD) D8 VENTURE (Department of Earth Science – University of Pisa)
  • Dual Beam Zeiss – Crossbeam 550 FIB-SEM (INFN at Department of Physics – University of Pisa)
  • Confocal Microscopes ZEISS LSM 900 with Airyscan 2 (Retrovirus Center – University of Pisa)
  • Aurora Airy light-sheet microscope (Department of Physics – University of Pisa)
  • Super-resolution microscope Nikon with STORM-5.0 Ti2E laser (Department of Physics – University of Pisa)
  • TRICARB 5110 with temperature control liquid scintillation counter (Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry– University of Pisa)
  • Vocus 2R CI-TOF mass spestrometer (Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry– University of Pisa)