The Hitachi 7800 TEM has been upgrade to include STEM, motorized Z-axis adjustment, selected area electron diffraction aperture, primary beam spot mask and a Bruker energy dispersive spectrometer. These upgrades will provide additional tools to support material and biological research.

FRAP and FRET have been Installed on the Leica SP8 Confocal/STED, The new modules use a “Wizard” format to guide you through configuration and data collection. FRAP and FRET software guides can be found on the SP8 website.

• A Zeiss LSM980 laser scanning confocal microscope with AiryScan 2 has been installed.  The Airyscan 2 is a superresolution approach to imaging common fluorescent compounds.  The 32-element array detector has 4-8X higher signal-to-noise over conventional confocals, with 2X higher spatial resolution in all three dimensions.  The LSM980 is based on an inverted light microscope equipped with an environmental chamber for live cell imaging.  Cover slipped slides can also be imaged by presenting the cover glass to the objective lens. 
• A new Olympus BX63 upright light/fluorescent microscope equipped with a DP74 color CMOS camera was recently installed.  A motorized stage and CellSense software allow automated tiling of slides.
• We have installed a new Tanner Scientific TN-1700 Paraffin Embedding Center that consists of a paraffin dispenser along with warm and cold plates.
• A Denton 502B thermal evaporator system was recently installed.  This system allows for the evaporation of carbon and metals over samples, as well as glow discharging TEM grids.