We provide one-on-one training, method development, proposal writing, troubleshooting, and data analysis services to help you meet your biofilm-related bioimaging needs.

Our staff are highly trained and specialized experts with Ph.D.'s in biofilm science. Our Bioimaging and Analytical Core labs are equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and methods to provide you with the best results and images of your biofilm or other complex samples.

 

  • White light laser
  • FLIM and FRET capabilities
  • Environmental chamber with heat and gas control

Leica DM6

  • Stimulated raman spectroscopy with CARS laser
  • White light laser
  • Environmental chamber with gas and temperature control
  • Fully automated timelapse imaging

Leica DMI8 Stellaris

  • Optical Tweezers
  • Fast-mapping fluorescence capability with 450 mW 532 nm laser and a 100 mW 785 nm laser
  • Ultra-low frequency filters for Stokes and anti-Stokes measurements

Raman

  • High-sensitivity, high-throughput imaging
  • fully enclosed to maintain temperatures between ambient 5-50°C (± 0.1°C), humidity (specifically designed to prevent condensation), and CO2/Air or hypoxic/hyperoxia conditions

Leica Thunder

  • Enables the precise isolation of cells or specific regions of interest
  • UV laser for sample dissection
  • Equipped with a color camera and fluorescence filter cubes (FITC, TRITC, DAPI)

Leica LMD6

  • Flow imaging microscopy system
  • Combines the benefits of digital imaging flow cytometry, and microcopy into a single platform
  • Count passing particles in a liquid sample
  • Characterize suspended particles in a size range of 2µm to 1mm

FlowCam 8100

  • Leica DFC3000G fluorescence camera 
  • Computer-controlled stereomicroscope

Leica Stereomicroscope

  • Enables a stain-free, non-invasive, high resolution, real-time imaging of thick intact samples

OCT GAN210

  • Fully automated with constant color temperature
  • Fully automated transmitted light- and fluorescence axis
  • Motorized Z-focus

Leica DM6 Microscope

  • Cryostat at -20C for thin-sectioning biofilms or tissues

Cryostat

  • Fluorescence filters
  • Photometrics MYO cooled CCD camera
  • Universal Imaging Corporation’s MetaVue software (v7.4.6)  

Nikon Eclipse E800

  • Barrel zoom
  • Equipped with a color camera

Stereomicroscope Nikon SMZ 1500