Light Microscopy Facility
Light Microscopy Core Facility: The instruments in this facility allow for all means of biological and material light-based imaging. Current equipment includes a Nikon A1R Resonant Scanning 6-color Confocal; Nikon A1Si Scanning 4-color Spectral Confocal with 4-color FLIM/FCS module; Nikon A1R Resonant Scanning 6-color Confocal with Structured Illumination module; Nikon upright Multiphoton Confocal system; Nikon N-STORM/TIRF super-resolution system; Nikon Wide-field High Content Acquisition Well Plate Scanning System; Nikon Ti-E with Andor Spinning Disc Confocal System; Laser capture microdissection system; electrophysiology station; three offline workstations with NIS elements software. Services include equipment and training support for sample preparation, imaging, and image analysis. Accessory stage-top incubators, large cell culture incubators, refrigeration, BSC hoods, phase contrast tissue culture light microscopes, and other needs for cell-based work are provided.