Core Facilities
The state-of-the-art facilities, known as the core facilities in the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB), act as the catalyst for the research being conducted at our facility.
Confocal Microscopy Lab
The mission of the IBB Flow Cytometry and Confocal Microscopy Core Laboratory is to serve as a multi-user facility for the image acquisition and analysis of materials related to the discipline of bioengineering and bioscience. The goals of the core lab are threefold:
- Train persons on the proper operation of core laboratory instruments
- Provide technical support for users
- Serve as a resource for potential users seeking novel applications of confocal laser scanning microscopy, quantitative PCR, fluorescence detection assays, and flow cytometry
Sample Analysis Lab
Histology allows the visualization, identification and the qualitative and quantitative analysis of cellular and tissue morphology.
The IBB Sample Analysis Lab is presently equipped to perform the following services:
- Cryoprocessing of soft tissue and tissue contructs
- Cryosectioning
- Processing of soft tissue constructs for paraffin embedding
- Paraffin sectioning
- Methyl methacrylate embedding of bone and hard tissues
- Generation of hard tissue and undecalcified bone sections
- Hematoxylin and eosin staining used for visualization of general tissue morphology
- Special stains used for the visualization of specific cells, tissues, or their components
- Immunohistochemistry used for the localization of proteins in situ