Additional histology equipment is in the Visitors’ lab. Histology: The Young lab includes a complete laboratory for paraffin histology including embedding equipment and supplies, fume hood, microtomes, knife sharpeners, stains and accessories.

This asset is available to visiting researchers and classes, but is only used under the guidance of a qualified operator. Craig Young is the steward of OIMB’s 600-m Phantom ROV, which is described on its own page, along with the research vessels. The stockroom has a large number of older dissecting microscopes (Wild, Bausch and Lomb, etc.) that can be used by visitors when the main teaching microscopes are in use by OIMB courses. Numerous analog video and still image cameras are kicking around somewhere inquire locally. The teaching laboratories include numerous basic dissecting microscopes, fiber optic lights, and Leitz laborlux brightfield and phase compound microscopes which are available for research use when not needed by classes. In addition, a trinocular Leica stereomicroscope is available to visiting scientists a second Leica trinoc stereo in the invertebrate teaching lab is available when not in use for class, as is an Olympus brightfield/darkfield compound with Point Grey Research color digital camera and computer to operate it. Contact the cognizant faculty for use of these instruments. Emlet has a Photron FastCam MC1 high-speed camera. Light microscopes and cameras: The Young, Emlet, and Maslakova labs have high quality compound microscopes equipped with DIC optics and various digital cameras, and the Maslakova lab has a Leica MZ10FL epifluoresence stereomicroscope with still and video cameras.

Svetlana Maslakova about use of the confocal microscope. Interested researchers should contact Dr. Craig Young about use of the SEM.Ĭonfocal: The OIMB has an Olympus FluoView 1000 laser-scanning confocal (installed 2009) with six illumination lines, filter-based detector, and SIM scanner (pending upgrade, 2013) on an inverted stand with cooling stages and micromanipulator. SEM: The OIMB has a recent-model Tescan scanning electron microscope (installed 2008) along with a critical point dryer and and sputter coater. Knute Nemeth ( is the stockroom manager and can help visitors find what they need. Visiting researchers should also feel welcome to contact the resident faculty, who are more than happy to help with modest needs. Therefore, visiting researchers should generally plan to bring or order their own reagents and other consumables. These supplies are limited, however, and chemical stocks consist primarily of leftovers from prior visitors, courses, or lab retirements. The OIMB stockroom supplies glassware, common laboratory chemicals, and expendables such as slides and sample tubes, primarily for the use of classes.

Fastcam opportunities