Core Facilities
Resources
Reserve instrument time
For any Core Facilities equipment, use your IGB username and password to login.
Instruments and Fees
- Microscopes
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Name IGB/University Rate Atomic Force Microscope
Cypher ES Environmental AFM$14/Hour AxioScan.Z1
Slide scanning microscope for brightfield and fluorescence imaging$19/hour AxioZoom V16
Zeiss V16 zoom microscope$13.50/hour Confocal - Zeiss LSM 700 Microscope
Four-laserpoint scanning confocal with a single pinhole$35/hour Confocal - Zeiss LSM 710 - Multiphoton Microscope
with Mai Tai eHP Ti: sapphire laser and FLIM from ISS$44/hour Confocal - Zeiss LSM 880
Airyscan$45/hour Confocal - Zeiss LSM 900
Airyscan 2$39/hour Lightsheet Microscope
Zeiss Z1 Microscope$29/hour Minflux
Molecular resolution in 2D and 3D$64.50/hour NanoZoomer Slide Scanner
Slide scanning system provides 460nm resolution scans of complete slides.$14/hour Raman-AFM-SNOM Microscope
Confocal Raman Spectroscopy$20/hour Serial Block Face SEM
Zeiss Sigma VP 3View SBF-SEM$19.50/hour SR-SIM
Four laser structured illumination superresolution system$48.50/hour STEDYCON
2D STED microscope with 40nm resolutionUltramicroscope
Lightsheet system large samples$42/hour Widefield Fluorescence Microscope
Zeiss Axiovert 200M with the Apotome$28/hour - X-Ray CT Scanner
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X5000 Imaging 2D Digital Radiography and 3D Computer Tomography ($86/hour)
Large sample X-ray CT system from North Star Imaging - NMR Facility
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Agilent 600 MHz NMR ($13/hour)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer - Analytical Instruments
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ImageQuant 800 ($13/hour)
Gel documenting system - Live Cell
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Four Fisher IsoTemp Incubators
Heater and CO2 regulator for Zeiss Axiovert
Laminar Flow Hood - Tissue Processing
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Cold Plate and Embedding Processor
Leica EG1150 C cold plate and Leica EG1150 H heated paraffin dispensing module.Cryostat ($8/hour)
Leica CM3050 S cryostat.Microtome ($8/hour)
Leica RM2255 rotary microtome.Vibratome
A Vibratome 1000 Plus.X-CLARITY ($129/hour)
Tissue Clearing System - Image Analysis Facility
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Analyze
3D Visualization and analysis softwareAutoquant
DeconvolutionAxiovision
Image analysisFIJI
Open Source Image AnalysisImaris
3D visualization package
Services
- Core Services
Resources
- NYQUIST Estimator
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From SVI Scientific Volume Imaging
- Microscopy Basics
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- Aligning the Optics-Koeller Illumination
- Digital Imaging Ethics
- Light Microscopy Tips
- Molecular Expressions: Microscopy Primer
- Zeiss Microscope (campus)
- Microscopy Supplies
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- Bioscience Tools
- Chroma
- Electron Microscopy Sciences
- Invitrogen
- Jackson Immuno Laboratories
- NUNC-Chambered Coverglass
- Ted-Pella
- Willco Wells
- Zeiss
- Image Analysis Programs and Informative Websites
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- Bitplane-Imaris-3D and 4D Volume Rendering
- Caltech Imaging Center
- Intelligent Imaging Innovations
- Metamorph-Morphometric Analysis
- National Center for Microscopy & Imaging Research
- Steve Potter's Multiphoton Resource Center
- Sample Preparation Protocols
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- Paraffin/Wax Slides Dewaxing-Immunolabeling
- Indirect Immunofluorescence-Adherent Cells/Tissues
- Blocking buffer recipe LM/EM
- Physics 598 Class
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Questions?