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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
MSL iLab Site

Services

Our teamlooks forward to helping you in electron microscopy, light microscopy, and image analysis, using theequipment in our core.

Electron microscopy

Scanning electron microscopy of a neuron
Scanning electron microscopy of a neuron (Nick Boyer – Gupton lab)
  • We willconsultwith you about your project
  • We canprepare your samples
  • We cantake imagesfor you
  • We cantrain youto take images
Services include SEM prep, embedding, ultrathin sections, negative staining and immunoEM.
Transmission and scanning electron microscopy available.

Light microscopy

Light-sheet microscopy of nerves in mouse embryo
在小鼠胚胎神经纸张显微镜(MSL staff)
  • We willconsultwith you about your project
  • We canadviseon experimental design and sample preparation
  • We willtrain youto take images
Confocal, light-sheet, widefield fluorescence, darkfield, polarization microscopy available. Tiling, multi-day live-cell experiments, FRAP, FRET, spectral imaging and more.

Image analysis

Deconvolution and 3D analysis of puncta in nuclei
Deconvolution and 3D analysis of puncta in nuclei (Anastasia Zlatanou – Vaziri lab)
  • We canadviseandtrain youto do image processing and data analysis
Imaris (3D analysis), Autoquant (deconvolution) and FIJI (mostly 2D analysis, macros) software available.