Imaging Core Facility: This core facility contains equipment and instrumentation for fluorescence and confocal microscopy. The laboratory is outfitted for working with cell and tissue cultures and contains requisite equipment including incubators, -70 freezer, BioRad electrophoresis unit, Olympus FV300 confocal microscope, Olympus FV500 confocal microscope, and Olympus IX70 fluorescence microscope. A second companion laboratory contains a Bruker IFS 66 FTIR with Hyperion Focal Plane Array Microscope for acquisition of infrared images with 5 micrometer resolution, a Bruker Tensor spectrometer with Confocheck ATR unit for protein structure determination, and a Bruker Equinox spectrometer with XA511 external reflection unit for the in situ characterization of monolayers at the air/water interface.

A third companion laboratory contains a Varian Unity/Inova 500 MHz NMR spectrometer is equipped with a microimaging kit, which includes the Varian 5mm XYZ triple resonance probe and Performa XYZ PFG module. The equipment allows to acquire 3D images of small objects (about 10 mm long and 4mm diameter) with up to 20 micron resolution using NMR technology.