Imaging and Microscopy

The Spatial Imaging Technology Resource (formerly the Nanoscale Protein Analysis Section of the Collaborative Protein Technology Resource or CPTR) provides expertise and service in state-of-the-art protein analysis technologies to advance CCR research in basic discovery and translation/clinical studies. Applications include: Quantitative profiling of cell signaling and post-translational modification, Measurement of cytokine, metabolite and serum/plasma markers , Identification and validation of biomarkers & therapeutic targets, Assessment of on‐ and off‐target drug activity and pharm… [learn more]

CCR VOLUME Electron Microscopy (CVEM) aims to develop new techniques in volume electron microscopy (vEM) and, in collaboration with CCR Investigators, apply these techniques to research cell biological questions well-suited for study by high-resolution 3D electron microscopy. CVEM, headed by Kedar Narayan, uses focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM), array tomography (AT), electron tomography (ET) and other complementary methods to visualize ultrastructural features of cells and tissues, including cell membranes, cellular organelles, and virus particles. CVEM is a CCR-dedicate… [learn more]

EIB Microscopy Facility has following instruments: 1) Abberior STEDYCON super-resolution (STED) microscope; 2) Zeiss LSM 880-NLO confocal / two-photon system; 3) Yokogawa CSU-W1 spinning disck confocal microscope and 4) Zeiss AxioObserver Z1 wide field microscope. As a multi-user facility, the different instruments provide a wide range of imaging modes for EIB scientists, from standard immunohistochemistry, through brightfield and wide-field epifluorescence imaging, to highly complex live cell confocal microscopy and super-resolution STED imaging. LSM 880 microscope is capable of advanced … [learn more]

The NCI High-Throughput Imaging Facility (HiTIF) works in a collaborative fashion with NCI/NIH Investigators by providing them with the necessary expertise, instrumentation, and software to develop and execute advanced High-Throughput Imaging (HTI) assays. These can be paired to screen libraries of RNAi or CRISPR/Cas9 reagents to discover and characterize novel cellular pathways by functional genomics. In addition to functional genomics screens, HiTIF also develops HTI assays to extract and quantify single-cell information about the molecular mechanisms underlying rare or heterogeneous b… [learn more]