Services

The WUCCI provides a complete service pipeline for light, electron, ion and 3D X-ray microscopy which is comprised of the following elements:

  • Affordable access to state-of-the-art light, electron, ion and 3D X-ray microscopy
  • Expert support in assay design, training on instrumentation and assistance with data acquisition
  • Analysis of multi-dimensional imaging datasets using commercial or custom-written algorithms

Service Requests

Tissue Clearing Sample Preparation
SEM Sample Preparation
TEM Sample Preparation
FIB-SEM Sample Preparation
Deep Etch EM Sample Preparation
XRM Sample Preparation
Other Services

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Training Requests

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Imaging types available in the WUCCI

Light Microscopy
  1. Widefield Microscopy:   Multi-color fluorescence and DIC imaging of fixed samples.
  2. Confocal Microscopy:  Three-dimensional multi-color fluorescence imaging of fixed mounted cell cultures or tissue sections as well as live cell cultures and living specimens such as C. elegans and zebrafish model systems.
  3. Super-Resolution Microscopy: 2D / 3D localization microscopy, or Structured Illumination Microscopy of fixed cell cultures or thin tissue sections. 
  4. Two-Photon Microscopy: Three-dimensional multi-color fluorescence imaging of fixed mounted thick tissue sections as well as live specimens such as in vivo mouse imaging.
Electron / Ion Microscopy
  1. Transmission EM:  Ultrastructural nanoscale imaging of cell cultures and tissue samples as well as purified proteins / complexes.
  2. Scanning EM: Ultrastructural topographic imaging of cell cultures and tissue samples.
    • Focussed Ion Beam-SEM: Three-dimensional serial-block face (SBF) nanotomography of cell cultures and tissue samples.
    X-Ray Microscopy
    1. Non-invasive sub-micron-level resolution tomographic imaging of hard and soft materials from microns to many centimeters in size. 
    Cryo-EM
    • Single Particle Cryo-EM:  Atomic-level resolution reconstruction of macromolecular structures.
    • Cryo-Electron Tomography: Three-dimensional reconstruction of viral particles and thinned lamella of vitrified cell cultures.