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