Equipment

  • JEOL 1011 electron microscope with fully digital image capture and processing
  • BioRad/Zeiss Radiance 2000 confocal microscope
  • Perkin Elmer LCI Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope
  • Nikon Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) microscope system
  • Nikon E800 Eclipse upright epifluorescence microscope with Hamamatsu Orca CCD camera and complete image analysis software (IP Lab)
  • Nikon 80i upright epifluorescence microscope with Hamamatsu Orca CCD camera and complete image analysis software (IP Lab)
  • Nikon TE300 inverted microscope with wide-field optics and Hamamatsu Orca CCD camera for fluorescence and ratio imaging, with Improvision OpenLab software
  • Olympus BH2 upright microscope with Spot Insight color CCD camera and Macintosh G4 computer for light microscopy
  • Olympus doubleheaded light microscope for section examination
  • Reichert ultramicrotomes for routine electron microscope sections (2)
  • Leica FCS ultracryomicrotome for ultrathin frozen sectioning
  • Leica cryostats (2)
  • Leica microtome for paraffin sectioning
  • MMI CellCut laser microdissection system
  • Leica APS freeze-substitution system
  • Several Macintosh G4-based computer workstations equipped with IP Lab Spectrum software for image analysis
  • 2 Power Mac G5 based workstations with Improvision Volocity visualization, classification (morphometric analysis) and restoration (digital deconvolution) software, 8 gigabytes of RAM, and 256 mb R
    adeon video cards