The Cell Sciences Imaging Facility at Stanford University provides access to fluorescent and electron microscope systems.
Description of Services
Current technologies include confocal laser scanning (single and two photon lasers), wide field deconvolution as well as a full service EM facility for TEM and SEM imaging.
Selected References
Adipose tissue-derived stem cells display a proangiogenic phenotype on 3D scaffolds. Neofytou EA, Chang E, Patlola B, Joubert LM, Rajadas J, Gambhir SS, Cheng Z, Robbins RC, Beygui RE. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2011 Sep 1;98(3):383-93. doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.33113. Epub 2011 May 31. PubMedID: 21630430.
Entrapment of viral capsids in nuclear PML cages is an intrinsic antiviral host defense against varicella-zoster virus. Reichelt M, Wang L, Sommer M, Perrino J, Nour AM, Sen N, Baiker A, Zerboni L, Arvin AM. PLoS Pathog. 2011 Feb 3;7(2):e1001266.PubMedID: 21304940; PMCID: PMC3033373.
Differential Localization and Independent Acquisition of the H3K9me2 and H3K9me3 Chromatin Modifications in the Caenorhabditis elegans Adult Germ Line. Bessler JB, Andersen EC, Villeneuve AM (2010) PLoS Genet 6(1): e1000830. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000830 PubMedID: 20107519; PMCID: PMC2809760.