Affiliated Facilities
In addition to the microscopes found in many investigator’s labs, the University has a number of facilities that are affiliated with the Cellular Imaging Core. We are very familiar with the instruments, their capabilities, and with the service facility staff.
Consultation & additional support
The Cellular Imaging Core is ready and available to come alongside SWEHSC investigators and their labs to ensure the best possible research outcomes.
In addition to the affiliated facilities, we have included other resources that may be of interest. Note: links from this page go out to the UA Microscopy Alliance website, or other service facilities' websites.
In addition to the microscopes found in many investigator’s labs, the University has a number of facilities that are affiliated with the Cellular Imaging Core. We are very familiar with the instruments, their capabilities, and with the service facility staff.
Consultation & additional support
The Cellular Imaging Core is ready and available to come alongside SWEHSC investigators and their labs to ensure the best possible research outcomes.
In addition to the affiliated facilities, we have included other resources that may be of interest. Note: links from this page go out to the UA Microscopy Alliance website, or other service facilities' websites.
Instruments & software tools:
- Color brightfield light microscope – Leica DMI6000 with Leica DFC450 color CCD camera
- Brightfield light microscope with greyscale camera - Olympus IMT-2 with Hamamatsu ORCA-100 CCD camera
- Color brightfield whole microscope slide scanner – Currently none available, but the Leica DMI6000 can stitch together multiple images over large areas. We currently are working with others on campus to bring a device like this to a UA service facility.
- Fluorescent stereo microscope – Zeiss Axiozoom 16 with Hamamatsu Flash 4.0 sCMOS camera
- Fluorescence widefield microscope (4 colors) - Leica DMI6000 with Hamamatsu Flash 4.0 sCMOS camera
- Fluorescence widefield reconstruction microscope (4 colors) – Deltavision RT
- Confocal microscope(s) – UACC Leica SP5, ARL Zeiss LSM880, ARL Zeiss LSM880MP, CBC 3I spinning disk confocal
- Multiphoton/confocal microscopy - ARL Zeiss LSM880MP, Intravital confocal/multiphoton
- Superresolution fluorescence – ARL Zeiss Elyra S.1, ARL Zeiss LSM880MP with Airyscan
- Flow cytometers - UACC/ARL FACSCanto II, LSR II, and FACSAria III
- Flow Cytometry/Cell Sorter - UACC/ARL FACSAria III
- Electron microscopes - ARL FEI Technai Spirit TEM, ARL Hitachi HF5000 TEM, several SEMs as well
- Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM) – several in the UA Chemistry & Biochemistry's Keck facility
- Image analysis software - SWEHSC Cellular Imaging - SimplePCI/HCImage (Hamamatsu); UA Cancer Center CISR - Definiens Tissue Studio; UITS - Imaris, Amira, MatLab