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Chemical Screening Facility

Electron Microscopy and Digital Imaging Facility

Electron Spin Resonance Facility

Microarray Facility

Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography Facility

Mass Spectrometry Facility

Nanosecond Time-resolved Laser Spectroscopy Laboratories

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility

Proteomics Facility

 


Confocal Microscopy Facility

UCSC maintains a shared confocal microscopy facility for use by the biomedical research community. The facility houses a Zeiss LSM5 Pascal Confocal Microscope System, providing outstanding optical resolution, as well as high speed scanning. UCSC investigators currently use this system to study neuronal receptor cellular localization, neuronal targeting, Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation, bacterial movement within animal organs, and immune cell interactions during immunological tolerance.

For more information regarding the facility, training, or scheduling use time, contact Professor Karen Ottemann or Dr. Jonathan Krupp.


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Biomedical Research Website by William Sullivan and David M. States | Last reviewed 11/9/07 by David States.