West Campus Imaging Core

Building:

Integrated Science and Technology Center basement, rooms 006 & 008

About the core

The Imaging Core provides access and training to a broad collection of shared instruments. These include a fleet of optical microscopes with three confocal systems, two wide-field systems, a laser-microdissection system, a cell-culture microscope, a stereomicroscope, and a newly built optical tweezer system. An atomic force microscope (AFM) is also available.

The core also maintains cell-culture equipment, such as a biosafety cabinet, incubators, a refrigerator, and microfuges and lab support areas for cell culture and sample preparation.

Equipment

Confocal microscopes

  • Leica SP8
  • Leica Stellaris 8 Falcon
  • Nikon Spinning Disk Confocal CSU-W1

Microscopes

  • Leica DMi8
  • Leica Thunder Imager 3D
  • Leica DMiL LED

Light sheet microscope

  • Miltenyi UM Blaze

Laser microdissection microscope

  • Leica LMD7000

Optical tweezers

  • Thorlabs optical tweezers system

Atomic force microscope

  • Asylum Research Cypher AFM

Stereo microscope

  • Leica M125

Available to Yale researchers & external researchers

Core website

March 18 workshop

Join us in person or on Zoom for workshop on tissue clearing for 3D imaging with the Blaze light sheet microscope.

Learn more

Contacts

Primary contact

Faculty Director

Andre Levchenko, EngScD John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering