Department of Biological Sciences

Technical Support Facilities

Photography/Illustration

A full-time photographer/illustrator, with studio in the Department, supports the needs of faculty, staff, and students for top-quality presentation graphics, projection transparencies, computer generated graphics and other illustrative materials appropriate for the dissemination of department research.

Photographer/Illustrator:

Mr. James Stamos

224 Hochstetter Hall

645-2363 ext: 132

 

Microscopic Imaging Facility

The MIF is a comprehensive microscopy and computer imaging facility available to the scientific community. It was established with support of the Department of Biological Sciences, the Vice President for Research, and the School of Pharmacy. The Imaging Facility provides users with sophisticated image acquisition and analysis. Any light microscopic application can benefit from the high quality images acquired by a Princeton Instruments slow scanned, cooled CCD, Zeiss photomicroscope, z-axis motor, filter wheel, and Kodak dye sublimation printer. Specialized imaging software can extract information that would otherwise require a confocal microscope, and has the additional benefit of being able to acquire images of samples that bleach too rapidly, or are too weakly fluorescent to be imaged with the confocal microscope.The result is a strikingly sharpened image. Series of images can be assembled to produce a three dimensional reconstruction or stereo pairs (see image above). Sample quantification in numerous modalities is possible. This capability is useful in a wide range of studies from the biological sciences (quantifying and measuring cells or cellular components) to the material sciences (particle analysis).
 

Transmission Electron Microscopy

The Department of Biological Sciences maintains a Transmission Electron

Microscope Laboratory within the Microscopic Imaging Facility. Among

the TEM services provided are embedding, sectioning, and immunolocalization

performed on biological specimens.

Access to scanning electron microscopy can be easily arranged.

 

Electron Microscope Specialist:

 

Mr. Alan Siegel

647 Cooke Hall
645-2363 ext: 172

Machine Shop

The Department, through the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, has access to the
Faculty Machine Shop located in Fronczak Hall, adjacent to the Cooke-Hochstetter Hall complex.
The Machine Shop is well equipped and is generally capable of all fabrications done in wood, metal,
plastics, or combinations thereof. They also do welding and repair work of a mechanical nature.

FNSM Machine Shop:

161 Fronczak Hall

645-3904 (phone)
645-3458 (fax)

Other Support Facilities

Other support facilities are conveniently located near the Department. They include:

Chemistry Instrument Shop:

122 Natural Sciences Building

645-6800 ext. 2055 (phone)

Health Sciences Instrument Shop:

50 Farber Hall

829-3936 (phone)

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