THE CENTRAL MICROSCOPY FACILITY

Equipment and Facilities:

• TEM - Transmission Electron Microscopy
• SEM - Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Zeiss 510 META Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope
  
• Fluorescence, Brightfield, and Photomicroscopy
• Immuno-gold and Immuno-fluorescence
• Freeze-fracture and Freeze-etch preparation
• Liquid Propane Plunge Freezing
• Low-Temperature Substitution and Embedding
• Ultramicrotomes
• Vacuum Evaporator units
• Computer-based image acquisition (video and cooled-CCD)
• Image processing facilities:
• Windows-based workstation with:
• Autodeblur deconvolution and 3-D rendering software
• Zeiss confocal software (full, licensed, version)
• ImageJ
  
• CD, DVD production