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| Research
Profile - SIU School of Medicine Research Imaging Facility |
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Email
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Dean for Research |
cwhitworth@siumed.edu |
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Location
of Laboratory: |
801
N. Rutledge Springfield,
Room 1266 |
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801
N. Rutledge, Room 1266 |
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Laboratory
Phone Number: |
| 217-545-7604 |
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217-545-7604 |
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The Director of the Research Imaging Facility is
Teresa Liberati.
Craig Whitworth is the Supervisor
of the lab.
Tom
Handy is a digital imaging specialist
available to assist users.
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The
Research Imaging Facility is a shared instrumentation
unit that is available not only to SIU employees but
state agencies as well. For a reasonable fee the RIF
staff provides expertise, consultation, service and
training in the following areas: |
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and Methodologies: |
Transmission
Electron Microscopy (TEM), including specimen preparation,
tissue sectioning, and examination.
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), including tissue
preparation, critical point drying, sputter coating,
mounting tissue samples, and specimen examination.
Darkroom Work, including film processing and printing.
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy, including viewing
and imaging samples for data analysis
Image/Morphometric Analysis, including digital image
acquisition from slides, films, gels, and tissue samples,
and morphometric measurements of areas, perimeters,
lengths, ratios, optical densities, grain counts, stereology,
gel analysis, etc.
Laser Capture Microdissection, including the capture
specific cell samples from slides for downstream assays.
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Equipment:
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Hitachi H7000
transmission electron microscope
Hitachi S3000N scanning electron microscope
Olympus Fluoview IX70 inverted confocal laser scanning
microscope with 488nm Argon laser, 568 and 647 Krypton
laser with HP DeskJet 970 Cse color printer.
Arcturus Autopix laser capture microdissection system
MCID Elite 6.0 image analysis system with Nikon Microphot
light microscope, Cool Snap monochrome 12 bit and 24
bit color cameras, Bencher copy stand, Epson Stylus
Photo750 color printer, and a light box for calibration
purposes.
MT2B and RMC MT7 ultramicrotomes
LKB Pyramitome
LKB knife maker
Tousimis Autosamdri critical point dryer
Polaron sputter coater
Denton vacuum evaporator
Mohr Pro print processor
Ilford Ilfospeed and Durst enlargers |
Web address:
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http://www.siumed.edu/adraf/researchsupport.html#rif |
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