Cores Directory

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Listing of research core items

  1. Instrument/equipment
    Researcher and participant in the EEG suite. Photo by Anton Grassl, courtesy of SmithGroup

    Electroencephalography (EEG)

    Electroencephalography (EEG) reveals brain function with millisecond precision by measuring, at the scalp, the minute magnetic fields generated by neural activity.

    Located within BrainWorks

    Roeland Hancock

    Director
  2. Core/facility

    Electron Microscopy Facility at CCMI

    The Electron Microscopy Facility at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Imaging (CCMI) provides investigators with a wide range of electron microscopy services.

    Xinran Liu, MD, PhD

    Primary contact Director
  3. Services

    Elemental abundance

    Services for measuring the abundance of elements in a sample

    Brad Erkkila

    Director
  4. Instrument/equipment

    EM CCMI instruments

    Microscopes, sample preparation, carbon evaporators, and advanced cryo FIB lamella milling for cryo electron tomography.

    Xinran Liu, MD, PhD

    Facility Director
  5. Services

    EM CCMI services

    Project consultation and experimental design, sample preparation, and imaging with transmission and scanning electron microscopes. 

    Xinran Liu, MD, PhD

    Facility Director
  6. Instrument/equipment

    Dry and plasma etching

    Dry and plasma etching tools provide the capability to etch metals, semiconductors, and organic films at controllable rates with high selectivity.

    Located within Yale University Cleanroom
  7. Instrument/equipment

    Eye tracking

    Our EyeLink 1000 Plus systems offers high-speed, precise eye tracking with flexible head-fixed and head-free modes for cognitive and vision research.

    Located within BrainWorks

    Roeland Hancock

    Director, BrainWorks
  8. Core/facility
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    Learn to create and edit your core's website on Research at Yale. This page is both a FAQ and a demonstration.

  9. Core/facility

    FIB-SEM Collaboration Core (F-SCC)

    We utilize unparalleled enhanced FIB-SEM pipeline to generate large-volume three-dimensional electron microscopy data with nanometer isotropic resolution. Such data reveal critical insights about structure-function relationships in biology.

    Song Pang

    Director Primary contact
  10. Instrument/equipment

    Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

    Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a portable technique that uses near-infrared light to estimate cortical hemodynamic activity related to neural activity. 

    Located within BrainWorks

    Roeland Hancock

    Director
  11. Services

    Gas chromatography

    Measure greenhouse gas concentrations.

    Brad Erkkila

    Director
  12. Core/facility

    Gibbs Machine Shop

    We help researchers with expert conceptual design, engineering, prototyping, and custom manufacture of scientific equipment. Note: The machine shop has moved to SCL 22 due to the construction of upper Science Hill.