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The Cell Imaging Facility
The Cell Imaging Facility
is a Medical School Shared Facility staffed by a full-time Director (Dr.
Teng-Leong Chew) and an EM Technician. The facility provides access to the
latest light microscopic technology including laser scanning confocal
microscopes, custom multi-photon imaging, and fluorescence correlation
spectroscopic analysis on the microscopic level. A variety of other advanced
light microscopes, microinjection capabilities, and live cell imaging is
available. The facility also has two transmission electron microscopes with
microtomes and other ancillary equipment. The staff are available to consult
with users to design new assays and imaging modalities.
Northwestern University
Biotechnology Laboratory
The primary mission of the Northwestern University Biotechnology Laboratory
(NUBL) is to develop and maintain a cost-effective service laboratory that
meets the biotechnology needs of Northwestern
University. NUBL's goal
is to develop the vision and expertise to lead rather than follow in
obtaining, using, and providing state-of-the-art instrumentation and
methodologies for biological, biomedical, and clinical research. NUBL assists
research in small and large laboratories by providing a wide range of
fee-for-service analytical methods and access to high tech instrumentation
for researcher use.
Robert
H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
These facilities
provide low-cost media, sera, tissue culture reagents, molecular biology
enzymes and kits to researchers and laboratories at Northwestern and
affiliated hospitals.
Flow
Cytometry
The Flow Cytometry Core Facility provides a comprehensive service for
investigators seeking to utilize the technology of flow cytometry to
effectively advance their research programs. The laboratory is equipped with
state-of-the-art equipment which includes a single-laser bench top flow
cytometer (Beckman Coulter XL-MCL) and a multi-laser flow cytometer (Beckman
Coulter Elite ESP) which also functions as a droplet cell-sorter. Staffing
includes the lab director, lab manager/operator, and a flow cytometry
technician.
Keck Biophysics
Facility
The Keck Biophysics Facility is an internationally unique resource for the
study of the structures and interactions of biological and synthetic
macromolecules. This shared research center was created by Northwestern University's
Center for Structural Biology with grants from the W.M.Keck Foundation and
additional support from NIH, the Rice Foundation, and the Robert H.Lurie
Comprehensive Cancer
Center.
Targeted
Mutagenesis
The primary goal of this facility is to generate chimeric (knock-out) mice by
using homologous recombination and embryonic stem (ES) cells for biomedical
research conducted by investigators of Northwestern
University, Northwestern University
Medical School,
Children's Memorial Institute for Education and Research (CMIER), and other
affiliated institutions.
Analytical
Services Laboratory
The Analytical Services Laboratory is a shared facility providing access to
most types of chemical analysis instrumentation. It is located on the Evanston campus. NMR
spectrometers, mass spectrometers, optical spectrometers, elemental analysis
instruments, chromatography instruments, thermal analysis equipment, and
X-ray diffractometers are found in this lab. The facility is staffed between
9AM and 5PM weekdays. Samples may be submitted to the staff for analysis or
you may run them by yourself after appropriate training.
NMR
Facility
NMR Facility at Northwestern is a NIH-funded university-wide shared resource
dedicated for Structural Biology research. The Facility comprises a 600 MHz
spectrometer, which is housed in the Analytical Services Laboratory (ASL) of the
Department of Chemistry. The facility is also equipped with three SGI O2
workstations and an assortment of software and graphics visualization tools
for NMR spectral processing and analysis. The workstations are also equipped
with software and computing power for NMR structure determination of
average-sized proteins, nucleic acids and carbohydrates.
Northwestern
University Shared Research Facilities
This comprehensive site provides links to most research facilities at
Northwestern that are shared by the many science departments at both the Chicago and Evanston
campuses.
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