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The DBC FACULTY RESEARCH THEMES FACILITIES INFO

Microscopy Core

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Zeiss LSM510-META NLO multi-photon confocal microscope

Zeiss LSM510-META confocal microscope

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) microscope

Image Analysis Workstation

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Molecular Interaction Core

BioMolecular Spectroscopy Facility
Surface Plasmon Resonance (BIACORE 3000)

Robotic Workstation

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Center for Immunology
Flow Cytometry Core

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B-D FACScalibur flow cytometer

Dako Cytomation MoFlo fluorescence activated cell sorter (FACS)

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DBC Optical Biology Core (OBC) Facility Shared Resource

Microscopy and Image Analysis Facility Workstation

Motherboard - Supermicro X6DA8-G2
CPU - Intel Xeon 2.8GHz 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache
Case - Lian-Li ATX full tower
Power Supply - PC Power & Cooling 510XE
Graphics Board - ATI Fire GL-V5100 (PCI-X)
Primary Drive - Seagate Cheetah 37G Ultra320 SCSI
Data drives (4) - Barracua 200GB SATA
Floppy Drive -Mitsumi USB card R/W
DVD Drive - LITE ON 12X DVD+/- RW
ZIP Drive - Iomega 750MB
Power Stabilizer / Backup - APC 700VA Smart-UPS
Memory - 4GB ECC RAM
Monitor - two Samsung 19" widescreen
OS - Windows XP SP2


Purchase of this workstation was made possible, in part, by the Office of the Dean of the School of Bioscience. The workstation was designed, configured and constructed, and is maintained by Dr. Bruce Blumberg.
Microscope users may transfer image files to and from the workstation for manipulation and analysis of images captured using OBC or other microscopes / computer.

Current Software Available for Use
- Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign, ImageReady)

- Zeiss LSM image analysis software


The OBC is willing to help users evaluate Image Analysis software packages, such as Mercury Computer Systems' Amira, Zeiss' Stallion (for live cell imaging) and AxioVision, Improvision's Volocity and Universal Imaging's MetaMorph.

Please contact Dr. Michelle Digman, the Director of the Optical Biology Core, if you have suggestions for software to be installed on the workstation, or if you have existing Image Analysis software that you would like to install on the workstation. The OBC is able to provide advice for software packages that you wish to include in your grant applications !

The OBC does not maintain a publication quality color printer, as UCI's ImageWorks Facility is able to provide outstanding services in this area.