Cores Instrumentation Page – UCLA CORES

Instrumentation

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Advanced Light Microscopy/ Spectroscopy	Behavioral Testing Core [3]	Bio-NMR Core Technology Center [3]	BRI Electron Microscopy Core [3]	BRI Microscopic Techniques Core [4]
BSCRC Flow Cytometry Core [1]	BSCRC-MCDB Microscopy Core [1]	Cellular Bioenergetics Core [1]	CNSI Advanced Light MicroscopySpectroscopy [10]	Crump Institute [9]
Crump Institute Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Technology Center [2]	Crump Institutes Preclinical Imaging Technology Center [2]	Electron Imaging Center for NanoMachines [19]	Human Performance Laboratory [6]	Immune Assessment Core [5]
ImmunoBioSpot and Cytometrics Core [3]	MIC Magnetic Resonance Facility [7]	MIC Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility [10]	MIC Materials Characterization Laboratory [17]	Mouse Physiology Core [6]
Nano and Pico Characterization Laboratory [18]	Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory [6]	Protein Expression Technology Center [10]	The Gene and Cell Therapy Core [1]	Translational Pathology Core Laboratory [2]
UCLA Clinical Microarray Core [3]	UCLA Flow Cytometry Core [4]	UCLA ICP-MS Facility [1]	X-ray Crystallography Condition Screening [3]	X-ray Crystallography Technology Center (Macromolecular) [3]
X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory (Small Molecule) [4]

Advanced Light Microscopy/ Spectroscopy [14]

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Instrument	Location	Contact	Notes
Confocal SP5 Blue [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Inverted Leica TCS-SP5 AOBS Confocal Microscope. Standard and fast scanning confocal microscopy through the visible spectrum
Confocal SP2 MP-FLIM [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Confocal and Multiphoton Leica TCS SP2 MP AOBS microscope system. Standard confocal microscopy with slides and non-standard specimens, multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging
Confocal SP2 1P-FCS [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Leica TCS SP2 AOBS filter-free spectral confocal microscope. Standard confocal laser-scanning microscopy over the full visible spectrum and fluorescence correlation microscopy.
Confocal microALEX-FCS [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	A home-built single-molecule microscopy set-up for alternating laser excitation spectroscopy. Alternating laser excitation spectroscopy:FRET ratioing and stoichiometry measurements at very low light levels
Confocal Spinning Disk [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Leica DMI6000 inverted microscope. Fast confocal scanning of live or fast moving specimens
Wide-Field CCD Microinjection Inverted [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Leica DMIRBE inverted microscope. Cell microinjection.
Wide-Field CCD IN SITU Upright [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Widefield Leica DMRXA upright microscope. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) observation of cells.
In vivo Maestro 2 [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Cambridge Research and Instrumentation (CRi) Maestro™ 2 in vivo small animal Imaging System. Spectral unmixing imaging of fluorescence signals in small animals or other macroscale specimens
Nikon-Widefield-Darkfield Microscope [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Nikon TE2000E inverted microscope. Widefield and high resolution darkfield microscopy.
Leica LMD7000 Laser Microsdissection System [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Leica’s latest system for laser microdissection. Laser microdissection uses a microscope to visualize individual cells or cell clusters. Regions of interest are selected by software, excised from the surrounding tissue by a laser, and collected by gravity into specialized devices for analysis. Microdissection of cells and tissue elements for downstream analysis
Leica RM2235 Rotary Microtome [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077
Wide-Field NUANCE Microinjection Upright [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077
Dissection Microscope and Microinjector [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Leica S8APO Dissecting Microscope and ASI-Narashige Microinjection Setup
DMIL Microscope with SPOT Camera [More information]	California NanoSystems Institute Rm B145 570 Westwood Plaza Bldg 114	Matthew Schibler mschibler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-983-1077	Leica DMIL Inverted Microscope with fluorescence and SPOT Camera