Rooms 1-3 and 76-93 of Eckstein Medical Research Building house the main laboratory of the Central Microscopy Research Facilities. The main facility is available for investigator usage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The main laboratory houses the most comprehensive equipment holdings as well as staff offices. Equipment located in the main facility:

a Bio-Rad 1024 confocal microscope
a Bio-Rad Radience multi-photon microscope
a Hitachi S-4000 scanning electron microscope
a Hitachi H-7000 transmission electron microscope
a JEOL 1230 transmission electron microscope
an Olympus BX-51 light microscope with digital camera
an Olympus Stereoscope with fluorescence attachment
a PTI ion imaging system
an Asylum scanning probe microscope
a Kratos Axis Ultra x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy system
three ultramicrotomy stations
a cryoultramicrotomy station
four paraffin microtomy stations
an automated tissue processor
microwave processor
a Sakura automated slide staining system
a Leica cryosubstitution apparatus
a Balzers freeze fracture system
a Balzers high pressure freezing system
two cryostats, one with cryo-jane system
a laser capture microscope
Spectral Karyotyping System


Equipment located in our main laboratory is available for reservation through the CMRF online signup system. Please note that this is not a complete list of preparation equipment, if you are interested in beginning a project please contact us.