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Core Facility Microscopes

Equipment Capabilities Core Facility Building
Nikon Spinning-Disk SoRa - superresolution Fluorescence, Confocal (Spinning Disk), Superresolution, Greyscale camera Microscopy Shared Resource (UACC) UA Cancer Center
Nikon/Crest spinning disk confocal Brightfield, Fluorescence, Widefield, Confocal (Spinning Disk), Phase Contrast, Deconvolution, Microscope slide scanning, Inverted optical microscope, Environmental Chamber (Live Cell Imaging), Motorized stage, Greyscale camera, RGB color camera Microscopy Shared Resource (UACC), Tissue Acquisition and Cellular/Molecular Analysis Shared Resource UA Cancer Center
Olympus Multiphoton FV MPE RS Apollo System Upright optical microscope, Fluorescence, Confocal (point scanning, spectral), Multiphoton/confocal, Two photon excitation Biomedical Imaging Core (COM-PHX) Arizona Biomedical Collaborative (ABC, Phoenix)
Olympus VS 200 whole slide scanner Brightfield, Fluorescence, Microscope slide scanning Comparative Pathology Core Lab Arizona Health Sciences Center
Park NX20 AFM Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Keck Center for Nano-Scale Imaging Chemical Sciences
Perkin-Elmer Operetta CLS (High Content Analysis System‎) Fluorescence, Confocal (Spinning Disk), High content screening (HCS) [high content analysis (HCA)], Microscope slide scanning Functional Genomics Core Keating building (BIO5)
Renishaw Reflex Raman (Optical) Raman spectroscopy, Upright optical microscope Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility Kuiper Space Sciences
Zeiss AXIO M2 Imager Epifluorescent Microscope slide scanning, Upright optical microscope, Brightfield, Fluorescence, Greyscale camera, RGB color camera, Widefield Biomedical Imaging Core (COM-PHX) Arizona Biomedical Collaborative (ABC, Phoenix)
Zeiss Axio Observer 7 with Apotome III Microscope Brightfield, Fluorescence, Widefield, Differential Interference Contrast (DIC, Nomarski), Deconvolution, Microscope slide scanning, Inverted optical microscope, Motorized stage, Greyscale camera, RGB color camera Imaging Cores - Optical (RII) Life Sciences North
Zeiss Axiozoom 16 - fluorescence stereomicroscope Brightfield, Fluorescence, Greyscale camera, Stereo microscope Imaging Cores - Optical (RII) Marley
Zeiss ELYRA S.1 (SR-SIM) Super Resolution Microscope Fluorescence, Superresolution, SR-SIM (Structured Illumination Microscopy), Inverted optical microscope, Motorized stage, Greyscale camera Imaging Cores - Optical (RII) Life Sciences North
Zeiss LSM 710 Confocal Inverted optical microscope, Fluorescence, Motorized stage, Confocal (point scanning, spectral) Biomedical Imaging Core (COM-PHX) Arizona Biomedical Collaborative (ABC, Phoenix)
Zeiss LSM880 inverted confocal microscope Fluorescence, Confocal (point scanning, spectral), Reflection microscopy, Differential Interference Contrast (DIC, Nomarski), Inverted optical microscope, Environmental Chamber (Live Cell Imaging), Motorized stage Imaging Cores - Optical (RII) Marley
Zeiss LSM880 NLO upright multiphoton/confocal microscope Upright optical microscope, Fluorescence, Motorized stage, Confocal (point scanning, spectral), Reflection microscopy, Multiphoton/confocal, Second Harmonic Generation (SHG), Two photon excitation, Superresolution Imaging Cores - Optical (RII) Marley