UCCRC Core Facilities:  Integrated Microscopy Facility

Scientific Director:  Benjamin Glick, PhD

Technical Directors:

Shirley Bond, MA, Digital Light Microscopy

Ru Yi Teow, Confocal Digital Imaging Facility

Web Site:  http://digital.bsd.uchicago.edu

The Integrated Microscopy Facility functions as a supervised, user-based Core providing state-of-the-art microscopy imaging capabilities. The Facility provides high-quality microscopy instrumentation, including bright field, fluorescence, high-resolution, -speed, -sensitivity confocal, and physiologic techniques; image analysis tools; and expert assistance and training to users. The techniques used by the Facility include classic color histological stain imaging, contrast generation in unstained cells, and fluorescence technologies. The fluorescence methods available in the Facility allow for applications ranging from localization of multiple targets to readout of biochemical or physiologic parameters in either fixed or living preparations.