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 Facility Core. We are very familiar with the instruments, their capabilities, and with the service facility staff.
Consultation & additional support
The Cellular Imaging Facility 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 Facility Core. We are very familiar with the instruments, their capabilities, and with the service facility staff.
Consultation & additional support
The Cellular Imaging Facility 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
- Color brightfield whole microscope slide scanner – The Leica DMI6000 can stitch together multiple images over large areas. The UACC's TACMASR has a Nikon BioPipeline Slide microscope slide scanner (color brightfield, polarized light, up to 5 channel fluorescence). The Department of Pathology Core Service lab has a slide scanner for color brightfield.
- 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, see also the whole microscope slide scanner.
- Confocal microscope(s) – RII Zeiss LSM880, RII Zeiss LSM880MP, CBC 3I spinning disk confocal, UACC Nikon spinning disk confocal
- Multiphoton/confocal microscopy - RII Zeiss LSM880MP, RII/TBIR Intravital confocal/multiphoton
- Superresolution fluorescence – RII Zeiss Elyra S.1, RII Zeiss LSM880MP with Airyscan, the UACC will be adding localization microscopy (PALM/STORM) in 2022.
- Flow cytometers - UACC/RII FACSCanto II, LSR II, FACSAria III, Cytek Aurora, ImagestreamX markII (imaging cytometer)
- Flow Cytometry/Cell Sorter - UACC/RII FACSAria III
- Electron microscopes - RII FEI Tecnai Spirit TEM, for biological Scanning EM,see the CBC FEI Inspec-S SEM (Note: there are a number of TEMs and SEMs that are restricted to non-biological samples)
- Small Animal Imaging - MRI (small animal & clinical), High Resolution Ultrasound, MicroCT, Bioluminescence/Fluorescence Small Animal Imaging, PET & SPECT imaging, Quantitative Digital Histology
- Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM) – several in the UA Chemistry & Biochemistry's Keck facility
- Image analysis software - SWEHSC Cellular Imaging - HCImage (Hamamatsu) workstation; TACMASR - Nikon image analysis software tools
If you can't find what you need in this list, contact us and we will help you look for what you need. There are additional microscopy and imaging resources at the other state universities, which can be located in the AZ Cores Network.