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WE HAVE MOVED!
KCBD 1250 and Abbott 129

09-14-2009  We have moved!  Download directions to the new KCBD facility. The facilities formerly housed in the Peck Pavilion (N-710) and Abbott 129 have moved to the new Knapp Center for Biological Discovery (KCBD) first floor, room 1250.  In addition to the new main facility, we still have a satellite location in the hospital in room AB-129Vytas is staffing AB-129, Shirley and Christine are in the KCBD.  

11-06-09
CRI's Nuance multispectral imaging system will be demonstrated in KCBD, 900 E. 57th Street. The system enables users to quantitate molecular markers even when they are co-localized in a single tissue section. Ruba Sarris will give a presentation from Noon to 1PM in the Conference Room 1280, and she will demonstrate the system from 1 to 3PM in the Microscopy Facility, Room 1250. If you have samples, please contact her at rsarris@cri-inc.com. For more Info.

08-10-2009
  Introducing Bitplane Imaris
Introducing_Imaris.pdf

01-26-2009 Upgrades to existing microscopes

The Integrated Microscopy Facility recently completed upgrades to two of our existing microscopes.  The Olympus Fluoview laser scanning confocal was upgraded to a DSU spinning disk confocal running SlideBook software.  This microscope can now image all fluorophores from DAPI (blue) to Cy5 (far red) plus DIC in either widefield or confocal mode.  With the 1.37 mega pixel Hamamatsu CCD digital camera and high NA, oil immersion objectives, this microscope is optimized for high-resolution imaging of fixed samples. 
    

The Olympus live cell / total internal reflection (TIRF) microscope is now housed on the IX70 microscope platform. It uses automated excitation and emission filter changers, an emission image splitter, and has a manual 4-position fluorescence filter turret and DIC optics.  This microscope runs user-friendly MetaMorph software controlling a Retiga EXi digital chilled CCD camera for high resolution images of fixed or live cells.    



Contact Information
Vytas Bindokas,PhD
Facility Director
Technical Director, AB-129
773.702.4875
vbindoka@bsd.uchicago.edu

Shirley Bond, MA
Technical Director, KCBD 1250
773.834.2639
sbond@bsd.uchicago.edu

Christine Labno, PhD
Technical Director, KCBD 1250
773.834.9040
ccase@midway.uchicago.edu

Locations
Main Hospital Building (Vytas)
Abbott Memorial Hall
Room AB-129

Knapp Center for Biomedical
     Discovery (Shirley & Christine)
First Floor, Room 1250

Core Support
Office of Shared Research
     Facilities (OSRF)

Cancer Research Center (UCCRC)

Intellectual and Developmental
     Disabilities Research Center
     (IDDRC)

Digestive Diseases Research
      Core Center (DDRCC)