Usage of equipment: confocal, two-photon microscopes, cryostat, etc.
Hands-on individual training on the Core’s or PI’s equipment
Data acquisition
Data analysis and preparation of figures and presentations
Documentation
Written technical parts of grants and manuscripts, and IACUC protocols
Letters of support for grant applications
Educational Resources (coming soon)
A website that includes:
A shared Burke-wide antibody database with antibody’s source, validation and RRID number.
Adapted experimental protocols.
Guidance for figure preparation.
Advertising materials for currently available techniques including images and movies with technical details.
Detailed description of the Core equipment.
Equipment reservation log.
Links to publications with innovative techniques.
Training courses (basics of immunocytochemistry, confocal and two-photon microscopy, figure preparation, ImageJ data analysis, and optogenetics from the experimental point of view).
Seminars demonstrating new techniques developed at the Imaging Core or potentially interesting to the investigators.
