Please refer to the Facility map (interactive version, static version, PDF) for location of equipment.

• Electron Microscopes
  • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
    • Leo Field Emission SEM (Why Field Emission is special...)
  • Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM)
    • Philips BioTwin CM120 TEM(best contrast images)
    • Hitachi 7600 TEM(speed and convenience; excellent images)
• Fluorescence Laser Confocal Microscopes
  • Multiphoton Laser Confocal Microscopes (best for live imaging/thick specimens)
    • Zeiss 710NLO Meta confocal microscope with tunable Coherent Chameleon Vision II laser (automated pulse-precompensation) -- the most advanced system from Zeiss and Coherent; amazing tissue/cell viability and tissue penetration; less noise/better signal
  • Scanning-spot Laser Confocal Microscopes (best for 3D/4D images)
    • Zeiss 510 Meta confocal microscope (2 instruments within Facility) -- very popular; completely automated/easy-to-use; great for 3D/4D imaging; modules for FRAP and FRET and multi-position/multi-time-lapse image acquisition
  • Laser Spinning-disk Confocal Microscopes (best for 3D/4D live-tissue and time-lapse studies)
    • 3i Spinning Disk Confocal (2 fully automated instruments within Facility)
         one with controlled CO₂/humidity/temperature enclosure
• Other Optical Microscopes (temperature-controlled specimen holders available)
• Other Fluorescence Microscopes
• Olympus IX81 -Fully automated filter wheels & motorized stage: ratio imaging & FRET
• Specialty Fluorescence Microscopes
• Olympus TIRF station 1 - 4W Kr-Argon laser, AOTF; single-molecule studies
• Olympus TIRF station 2 -50 mW Kr-Argon laser
• Asylum Atomic Force Microscope/Zeiss Axio Imager Fluorescence Microscope
• General use, Histology
  • Olympus BX51 with color camera (manual upright) (good for histology, no fluorescence)
  • Olympus BX61 (motorized upright)
  • Nikon Fluorescence Dissecting
• Sample and Cell Preparation
  • Zeiss/Eppendorf Microinjection Station
  • Leica cryostat