THE CENTRAL MICROSCOPY FACILITY

Equipment and Facilities:

• TEM - Transmission Electron Microscopy
• SEM - Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy
• Fluorescence, Brightfield, and Photomicroscopy
• Nikon E-600 microscope
• Automated focus, excitation, emission wheels
• Diagnostic Imaging "Spot-RT" camera system (love it!)
  
• Immuno-gold and Immuno-fluorescence
• Freeze-fracture and Freeze-etch preparation
• Liquid Propane Plunge Freezing
• Low-Temperature Substitution and Embedding
• Ultramicrotomes
• Vacuum Evaporator units
• Varian - clean vacuum, with dual sorption pumps, 6 Vacion pumps, and Titanium Sublimation pump
  
• Balzers Turbo evaporator with electron-beam guns
• Kinney KDP-2 evaporator
  
• Balzers CPD-030 Critical Point Dryer
• Polaron E5100 Magnetron Cool Sputtering coater unit.
• Harrick RF Plasma Cleaner
  
• Computer-based image acquisition (video and cooled-CCD)
• Image processing facilities: PC workstation with AutoDeblur software (deconvolution) and Zeiss AIM (full package)
  

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