Core Facility: CNR Imaging & Cell Analysis Core (includes the Tufts Imaging Facility, TIF)

Purpose: Support for imaging including confocal, conventional, and electron microscopy, and laser capture microdissection

Major Instruments/Services: Leica TCS SP2 AOBS confocal/2 photon scope including inverted and upright microscopes; Perkin Elmer spinning disk confocal, Arcturus PixCell IIe laser capture microdissection, conventional fluorescence and brightfield microscopy; improvision 3D image rendering software

Fee: Yes

Access: Open to the Tufts community (outside Tufts sometimes). User must be trained on instrument by facility manager.

Preferred Contact: Alenka Lovy-Wheeler, alenka.lovy_wheeler@tufts.edu, (413) 636-3795

Campus: Boston

Website: http://www.tufts.edu/sackler/neuroscience/CNR/imaging.html

Level of Service:

• Level 3: Do-it-yourself after intensive supervised training. Occasional trouble-shooting help is provided.

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