Northwestern University Cell Imaging Facility

Director    Teng-Leong Chew, Ph.D.

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Instruments:

Laser Scanning Confocal

Photo-activation & Conversion

Spinning Disc Confocal

Fluor. Emission Fingerprinting

Total Internal Reflection Fluor. 

Nuance Spectral Unmixing System

Axioskop Fluo. Microscope

Microinjector

Rotary Shadowing System

Ultramicrotomes

Trans. Electron Microscopes

Software:

MetaMorph 6.0

Volocity 2.0

Zeiss LSM 510 Software

Zeiss Image Examiner

Resources:

Publications

Links

Technical Tips

References and Books

 

 

Web Design: Teng-Leong Chew




Scheduler


Picture courtesy of Robert Goldman's Lab


Instrument Reservation

Users must sign up in advance to use any instrument in the facility. Except the use of color printers, all instrumental reservation can be made via the Cell Imaging scheduler. Please make sure that we already set up an account with a corresponding CUFS number before you can use the scheduler. To learn how to reserve instrument time using the scheduler, please click here. You can only access the scheduler after we have created a user account for you and authorized you to use the instrument.  


IMPORTANT NOTE:
Users should realize that this is a shared facility. Please be considerate when scheduling your experiment. Do not sign up for the whole day, except instruments which are meant for long term use, such as the spinning disc confocal microscope. Last minute cancellation on popular instruments, such as the confocal microscopes, is strongly discouraged. We are fully aware that unforeseen circumstances occurs in research, but some users have clearly abused the system.  Repeat violation may result in penalty - you will be charged regardless of whether you cancel the reservation.