Instruments available with links to signup calendars for authorized users (priority is given to Waisman Center users, however instruments are available for open campus use after training)

Light Microscopes

• Nikon C1 Laser Scanning Confocal with upright microscope and three laser lines (Argon- 488 excitation -FITC etc., He/Ne- 543 excitation (TRITC etc), He/Ne- 633 excitation, Alexa 650, 633, CY5).
  • Sign-up Calendar
  • Request Time on the Scope
    
    
• Zeiss Axioplan 2 imaging photomicroscope with AxioVision and Stereo Invest igator software
  • Sign-up Calendar
  • Request Time on the Scope
    
    

Other CMN Core Resources

• Check Availability Calendar of Core Manager (Jolien Connor)
• ABI 7500 real time PCR machine
  
• Beckman Dickinson Fascalibur Flow Cytometer
• Dell Workstation Computer for offline image and data analysis
  
  
• CMN Core Website

Two-cell C. elegans embryo imaged by Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy. The AB cell is just starting to assemble its spindle, and the P1 cell is in prophase: microtubules are in green, DNA is blue and the red is syntaxin (to mark the cortex). Image courtesy of Maria Vidal, LOCI

To use either microscope or other CMN Core equipment please contact:
Jolien Connor
jconnor@waisman.wisc.edu
phone 3-9192 or 5-9653