Light Microscopy Core Facility

Overview

Leadership:

Sam Johnson, PhD
919-613-8216
sam.johnson@duke.edu


Daniel Lew, PhD
919-613-8627
daniel.lew@duke.edu

Website: http://microscopy.duke.edu/

Location: 4125 Franch Family Science Center

The Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF) offers a wide range of confocal and conventional fluorescence microscopes and image analysis resources for all members of the University and the Medical Center campuses. The facility is capable of a wide variety of imaging techniques that are essential for the research of a large number of investigators.  The facility recently received funding from the Office of the Provost and the Dean of the School of Medicine to acquire new hardware and serve as a campus-wide facility.  The Cancer Center Confocal Resource is now incorporated into this wider structure. The facility is efficient and heavily used. In FY2008 the facility was used 4,938 times totaling 10,314 hours of use by 329 users from 121 labs and 24 departments.  The facility has been used for more than 20,000 hours since it came into being in March 2006.  More than 120 publications have resulted from use of the microscopy facility in the last 5 years.  Continued and increased funding from the Cancer Center will allow the facility to provide excellent capabilities and services at a modest hourly rate affordable to all users. 

Details of the microscopes, training, online-booking, rules and fees can be found on the website. Fees are kept at the minimum necessary to keep the instruments in operation.