NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
CELL IMAGING FACILITY
  Department of Cell & Molecular Biology  
  Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

 

  Feinberg School of Medicine

Nikon Imaging Center at Northwestern University

   

 

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Last updated on November 17, 2009



Services  
Poster Printing Service
HP z6100ps printer 60" width 2400x1200 dpi (more info)
   
Light Microscopy-related
Laser scanning confocal microscopy
 
Spinning disc confocal microscopy
  Long term live cell imaging (imaging chambers and on-site cell culture incubator)
 
Tandem scan confocal microscopy
 
Multispectral brightfield/epifluorescence/confocal microscopy
  Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) (more info)
 
Fluorescence loss in photobleaching (FLIP) (more info)
 
Photoactivation and photoconversion (more info)
  Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy
  Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)
  Tissue Microarrays (more info)
  High throughput imaging, image-stitching and virtual slide acquisition (more info)
 
Immunofluorescence
  Microdissection (more info)
   
Microinjection Microinjection
  Needle puller
   
Electron Microscopy Electron microscopy of tissue and cultured cell specimens
 
Full service sample preparation and sectioning
 
Critical point drying
  Immunogold EM
  Platinum-replica electron microscopy (more info)
  Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) (more info)
  Sputter-coating
  Digital and conventional EM image acquisition
   
In vivo Animal Imaging 
Fluorescence-based non-invasive small animal imaging
 
Fluorescence-based minimally invasive small animal intravital imaging
 
 
 
 
Film Scanning Phosphoimager and gel scanning (more info)
   
Training and Consultation Small-group training sessions
  Consultation on experimental design, and data analysis