UTHealth Center for Advanced Microscopy

Overview of Services

The Center for Advanced Microscopy and Nikon Center of Excellence at UTHealth provides state of the art imaging capabilities as well as expertise to those within UT Health and the Texas Medical Center who have a need for cutting edge imaging technology. The instruments housed in the Center, as well as the expert individuals who stand ready to provide training, are available to provide access to vital imaging systems for the purpose of molecular, cellular, tissue, and whole animal imaging.

Leadership

Olga Chumakova, Ph.D. | Core Manager

Kandice Levental, Ph.D. | Core Director

Lisa Byrd | Sr. Administrative Coordinator

Location and hours of operation

Services and Equipment Available for Reservation

To schedule time on a piece of equipment please proceed to the Schedule Equipment tab.

• Nikon A1 Confocal Laser Microscope System + PicoQuant: confocal microscope with additional platform for assessing fluorescence lifetime
• Nikon A1R Confocal Laser Microscope System:  confocal microscope with resonant and spectral detectors
• Nikon A1Rsi Confocal Laser Microscope + N-STORM + TIRF: confocal microscope with resonant and spectral detectors, total internal reflection fluorescence, and super-resolution stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM)
• Nikon N-SIM: super-resolution structured illumination capable of imaging in 2D, 3D, and TIRF-SIM
• Nikon TiE Wide-Field Fluorescence Imaging System: for imaging of small molecules in living cells
• IVIS Lumina XR: live whole animal imaging of longitudinal fluorescence, bioluminescence, and X-ray in vivo and ex vivo
• Lambert LIFA Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscope
• Data Processing Computers: contains NIS-Elements AR, LI-FLIM, Living Image, MetaMorph, SlideBook, SoftMaxPro, AutoQuant 

Links and Resources

1. IBP Cytodynamic Imaging Facility
2. Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
3. Nikon Microscopy U
4. Zeiss Website
5. Aldehyde-based Fixatives
6. Molecular Probes (Invitrogen) Fluorescent Spectra Viewer
7. NIH Imagel Software
8. Dirk Bucher's Confocal Guide
9. Pierce (Thermo Fisher Scientific) Library of Technical Guides
10. Quantifying Colocalization
11. A Practical Guide to Evaluating Colocalization in Biological Microscopy
12. ND Processing Tools
13. Object Classifier 
14. Binary Masks ROI
15. Creating AVI Files
16. Object Count
17. Ratio Measurement
18. Using Binary Layers
19. Using References
20. Using ROI

Contacts