12/03/08: Core Facility upgrades

UNC Neuroscience Center is pleased to announce that the Confocal and Multiphoton Imaging Core has received a major upgrade with the installation of a new Olympus Confocal microscope. The Olympus FV1000 confocal microscope is specifically designed for long-term imaging of living neuronal tissue.

It is equipped with a dedicated environmental system from Precision Plastics and a Prior motorized stage for repetitive imaging of living cells under controlled conditions. In addition, the system comes with a SIM scanner for simultaneous scanning and excitation that result in no time lag. This ability can be used for uncaging, photoactivation, FRAP and FLIP.

https://www.med.unc.edu/neuroscience/core-facilities/confocal-and-multiphoton-imaging/ 

The Center is also pleased to announce the hiring of Megumi Aita as the new director of the Insitu Core facility.

https://www.med.unc.edu/neuroscience/core-facilities/in-situ-hybridization/