Patent ID: 8431078

Claim:
A laser microdissection system with a microscope for observing a biological material located on an object carrier, the system comprising: a laser device for excising a biological object from the biological material by means of laser radiation; and at least one holder containing a receptacle device having a plurality of receptacle containers, each receptacle container provided for receiving the biological object excised from the biological material, for operation with the laser microdissection system, wherein: the at least one holder has a coding that identifies the type of receptacle device; and identification means are provided for identifying the receptacle device held in each case by the holder by evaluating the coding of the holder, and control means are provided and are designed in such a way that, depending on the receptacle device identified in each case, the control means displays a diagrammatic representation of the identified receptacle device on a display to provide information about the receptacle device to a user and provides selection functions specific to the receptacle device that allow a user to control the allocation of individual biological objects to be excised from the biological material to individual receptacle containers of the receptacle device identified in each case.