Microscopy Facilities
at the University of California, Berkeley
There are three core laboratories on campus that offer expertise, instruction, and instrumentation in optical microscopy for research.
- The CNR Biological Imaging Facility (This lab): Confocal, deconvolution, and widefield fluorescence microscopy, live-cell imaging, microtechnique, training in digital image processing and analysis. Located in 381 Koshland Hall
- Molecular Imaging Center: Multi-photon laser scanning confocal microscopy, electrophysiology, live-cell imaging. Located in LSA and LKS.
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory: Transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Located in Giannini Hall.
- CIRM/QB3 Shared Stem Cell Facility: Available for the study of stem cells. Located in Stanley Hall
- The Golub Microscope Collection: Web site dedicated to Dr. Orville J. Golub's collection of antique microscopes from the 17thÐ20th Centuries. The collection is located in VLSB
The Biological Imaging Facility is a core microscope imaging lab at the University of California, Berkeley.
The BIF specializes in Widefield, Confocal, Deconvolution, Spinning Disk, and Super-Resolution fluorescence microscopy
(SIM, PALM, TIRF).
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Streptomyces expressing mCherry, originally isolated from a wild fava bean nodule, grown inside the tissue of a lab grown root nodule. This image was acquired in the BIF using a Zeiss M1 AxioImager, Hamamatsu 12-bit camera, and iVision software.
Image contributed by Scott Behie and Rita de Cassia Pessotti of the Traxler Lab
