UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core

The UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core (NMC) is a centre for high-resolution imaging and aims to make this technology accessible to neuroscientists and other scientific researchers.



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Expertise

Imaging Platforms

Keywords - Light Microscopy: Live cell imaging, Frequency-domain FLIM, Confocal microscopy, Widefield microscopy, Multi-photon microscopy
Keywords - Medical Imaging: in vivo fluorescence imaging

 

 

Applications

Keywords - Biological: Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Plant Biology, Microbiology, Histology/Pathology, Neurobiology, Immunobiology, Bio-materials

 

Sample Preparation

Keywords - Biological: Cryosectioning

 

Data Analysis

Keywords - Software: ImageJ, Imaris, Fiji, Matlab

 

Shared Access

The UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core is open to all users, but those affiliated with UNC or support grants receive subsidized rates for usage

 

Funding Overview

The UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core is supported, in part, by funding from the NIH-NINDS Neuroscience Center Support Grant P30 NS045892 and the NIH-NICHD Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center Support Grant P50 HD10357

 

 



Point of Contact

UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core
5114 Mary Ellen Jones Building
116 Manning Drive
Campus Box 7250, Chapel Hill
North Carolina, 273599, USA


Point of Contact 

Michelle S. Itano, PhD +1 27599-7250  

Staff List 

Tessa-Jonne Ropp, PhD
Christina Moore, MS

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