The major goals of the facility include:
- Streamline access to advanced light microscopy imaging equipment available at McGill University.
- Direct researchers to the appropriate equipment and techniques to address their specific research questions.
- To acquire new equipment in order to keep up with advances in imaging to provide state of the art technologies and instrumentation to researchers.
- Develop our own advances in image acquisition and analysis techniques giving researchers unique tools to answer complex biological questions.
- Develop a network of image analysis workstations with the latest high end image analysis software packages.
- Provide researchers with training in advance imaging techniques and software analysis tools.
- Partner with companies to develop both short and indepth training courses for efficient technology transfer to researchers.
What we do:
- Confocal Microscopy
- Multiple fluorophore imaging
- TIRF Imaging
- 3D Imaging
- 4D Dynamic Live Cell Imaging
- Laser micro-dissection (PALM)
- Protein diffusion/interactions in living cells (FCS)
- Cell surface imaging with <100 nM z resolution (TIRF)
- FRET
- FRAP
- De-convolution
- FCS
- Image Correlation Microscopy (ICS, RICS, STICS)