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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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