CNR Biological Imaging Facility, The University of California at Berkeley

Microscopy Facilities
at the University of California, Berkeley

There are three core laboratories on campus that offer expertise, instruction, and instrumentation in modern microscopy:

The CNR Biological Imaging Facility (This lab): Confocal and standard fluorescence microscopy, microtechnique, training in digital image processing and analysis. Located in 381 Koshland Hall
Molecular Imaging Center: Multi-photon, laser scanning confocal and deconvolution microscopy, electrophysiology. Located in LSA.
Electron Microscopy Laboratory: Transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Located in Giannini Hall.
The Golub Microscope Collection: Web site dedicated to Dr. Orville Golub's collection of antique microscopes from the 17th–20th Centuries.

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Cross sections of juvenile (top) and adult (bottom) leaves of the semi-aquatic annual forb, Lasthenia glaberrima (California Goldfields); an endemic to California vernal pools. Heterophylly (the development of different early and late leaf forms) in this plant is an evolved response to a drastic change in environmental conditions from to juvenile to adult forms; complete submergence in the fall/winter followed by drought stress in the warm spring months. The presence of aerenchyma (air spaces) in the early leaf is an adaptive response to submergence. Leaves were paraffin-embedded and carbohydrates were fluoresecently labeled using the fluorescent PAS reaction. Images were aquired using the Zeiss Lumar.v12 epifluorescence stereoscope in BIF.

Image submitted by Beth Forrestel of the Ackerly lab, UCB

Microscopy Facilities at the University of California, Berkeley

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Microscopy Facilities
at the University of California, Berkeley

Past Images of the Month
2007 Posters
2006 Posters
2005 posters
2004 posters
2003 posters
2002 posters