Microscopy Center

Please Note: All ADD-ON rates are IN ADDITION to the standard scope rate. Scope access for External Users is dependent upon schedule availability; please contact the facility director to learn more.

*UCSC Users receiving training on a non-recharge scope will not incur a training fee, but may incur a scope use fee for the duration of their training session; if training must occur from their own account

†Non-UCSC Users receiving training on a non-recharge scope will incur a scope use fee for the duration of their training session

The UCSC Life Sciences Microscopy Center manages several widefield and confocal microscopes available for use by the UCSC research community. Some are owned by the CIRM-funded UCSC Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells, and others belong to individual laboratories but are administered by the center.

Jump to a Specific Instrument’s Details Please select an instrument Zeiss SteREO Discovery V20 Teaching Dissection Scope Zeiss Axiozoom Microscope Leica Widefield Microscope Keyence Biorevo BZ-9000 Digital Widefield Microscope Zeiss Live-Cell Imaging Widefield Microscope Zeiss AxioImager Z2 Widefield Microscope M9 Multi-Focus Microscope (MFM) Solamere Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope Leica SP5 Confocal Microscope Zeiss 880 Confocal Microscope with Airyscan Fast Image Analysis Workstation BioMed Image Analysis Workstation

Zeiss SteREO Discovery V20 Teaching Dissection Scope

Best suited for direct observation of specimens that require a large amount (up to 110mm) of working distance (wd) and for teaching applications where simultaneous observation of specimen or procedure by student and teacher is beneficial.

Stand: dual observation head with MARC remote control

Stage: motorized with focus and height control.

Transmitted light modes: direct and oblique illumination with directional or diffuse reflectors

Reflected light illumination: two variable mount LED

Magnification range: 4.7x – 94.5x

Ownership: common

Location: 319 Sinsheimer Labs

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Zeiss Axiozoom Microscope

Best suited for samples normally viewed under a dissections scope and requiring large working distances, but where higher magnification is needed. Well suited for thin (less than 15 microns) samples mounted on a standard microscope slide with a coverslip. Non-labeled and fluorescently-labeled samples may be used.

Stand: Axiozoom V.16

Stage: motorized stage with transmitted light

Fluorescent filters available:
DAPI: Fset49, EX 365 : DC 396 : EM BP 445/50
GFP: Fset38, EX BP 470/40 : DC 495 : EM BP 525/50
Cy3: Fset43, EX BP 550/25 : DC 570 : EM BP 605/70
Cy5: Fset50, EX BP 640/30 : DC 660 : EM BP 690/50

Transmitted light modes: bright-field, bright-field plus, relief contrast, dark-field

Objectives:
0.5x/0.125 NA (wd – 114mm)
1x/.025 NA (wd- 56mm)
2.3x/0.57 NA (wd-10.6mm)

Software: Zeiss Zen with Z-stack, tiling and stitching modules

Camera: Zeiss AxioCam HRm (monochrome)

Ownership: lab-owned

Location: Sinsheimer 312C

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Leica Widefield Microscope

Best suited for thin (less than 10 microns) samples mounted on a standard microscope slide with a coverslip. Non-labeled, fluorescently-labeled, and colorimetric-dye-labeled samples may be used.

Stand: upright, Leica DM5500B

Stage: motorized stage for 3D stack, tiling, and multi-point image acquisition.

Fluorescent filters available:
DAPI: 116000232 EX BP 360/40 : DC 400 : EM BP 470/40
GFP: 11532366 EX BP 470/40 : DC 500 : EM BP 525/50
Texas Red: 11513885 EX 560/40 : DC 595 : EM BP 570/75
Cy5: 11600230 EX BP 620/60 : DC 660 : EM BP 625/75
Cy3: 11600231 EX 545/40 : DC 565 : EM 610/75 (note: Cy3 cube is not normally on the scope but may be exchanged in upon request)

Transmitted light modes: bright-field, DIC, and polarized light

Objectives:
4x/0.1 NA (wd-18mm)
10x/0.3 NA (wd-11mm)
20x/0.5 NA (DIC) (wd-1.15mm)
40x/0.75 NA (DIC) (wd- 0.40mm)
63x/ 0.6-1.4 NA oil (DIC) (wd-0.1mm)
100x/0.7-1.4 NA oil (DIC) (wd-0.09mm)

Software: Leica Application Suite Advanced Fluorescence V2.6.9.7266

Camera(s): Leica DCF360 monochrome, Leica DFC450 color

Ownership: common

Location: 111 Sinsheimer Labs

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Keyence Biorevo BZ-9000 Digital Widefield Microscope

Best suited for thin (less than 10 microns) samples mounted on a standard microscope slide with a coverslip, but can also accommodate samples in a small petri dish. Non-labeled, fluorescently-labeled, and colorimetric-dye-labeled samples may be used. Especially good for applications requiring image tiling or for samples that have large fluctuations along the Z-axis.

Stand: inverted, Keyence BZ-9000 stand-alone unit

Stage: motorized stage for 3D stack, tiling, and multipoint image acquisition; digital navigation for eyepiece-free use

Fluorescent filters available:
DAPI: EX BP 360/40 : DC 400 : EM BP 460/50
GFP: EX BP 470/40 : DC 495 : EM BP 535/50
TRITC: EX BP 515/25 : DC 565 : EM BP 605/55
Texas Red: EX BP 560/20 : DC 595 : 630/60
Cy5: EX BP 620/60 : DC 660 : 700/75

Transmitted light modes: Bright-field and phase contrast

Objectives:
1x/0.04 NA (wd-3.2mm)
4x/0.2 NA (wd-20mm)
10x/0.45 NA (wd-4mm)
20x/0.75 NA (wd-1mm)
20x/0.45 NA ELWD Ph (wd- 6.9-8.2mm)
40x/0.95 NA (wd-0.25-0.17mm)

Software: Keyence View and Keyence Analyzer with dynamic cell count and measurement modules

Ownership: common

Location: Biomed 365B

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Zeiss Live-Cell Imaging Widefield Microscope

Best suited for thin (less than 10 microns) samples mounted on a standard microscope slide with a coverslip, in a culture dish, or on a multi-well plate. Non-labeled and fluorescently-labeled samples may be used. Time course experiments requiring a temperature- or CO2-controlled environment or both.

Stand: inverted, Axiovert 200M

Stage: motorized stage for 3D stack and multi-point image acquisition; sample holder must be swapped to accept slides, petri-dishes, or multi-well plates.

Fluorescent filters available:
DAPI: EX 365 : DC 395 : EM BP 445/50
GFP: EX BP 470/40 : DC 495 : EM BP 525/50
TRITC: EX BP 540/25 : DC 565 : EM BP 605/55
Texas Red: EX BP 557.5/55 : DC 600 : EM LP 615

Transmitted light modes: bright-field, DIC, and phase contrast

Objectives:
2.5x/0.075 NA (wd -8.7mm)
10x/0.25 NA (PH1) (wd-4.5mm)
20x/0.3 NA (PH1) (wd-4.3mm)
40x/0.6 NA (PH2) (DIC) (wd-0.75mm)

Software: Zeiss ZEN, Pecon Incubation Remote

Camera: Zeiss AxioCam MRm (monochrome)

Ownership: lab-owned

Location: 461 Biomedical Sciences

Please note that you must have documented BSLII clearance before you can use this scope.

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Zeiss AxioImager Z2 Widefield Microscope

Best suited for samples up to ~40um (with Apotome) mounted on a standard microscope slide with a coverslip. Excels when extra-contrast is needed. Non-labeled, fluorescently-labeled and colorimetric-dye-labeled samples may be used.

Stand: upright, AxioImager Z2

Stage: motorized 8-slide stage for 3D stack and multi-point image acquisition

Fluorescent filters available:
DAPI: Fset49, EX 365 : DC 396 : EM BP 445/50
CFP: Fset47, EX BP 436/25 : DC 455 : EM BP 480/40
GFP: Fset38, EX BP 470/40 : DC 495 : EM BP 525/50
YFP: Fset46, EX BP 500/25 : DC 515 : EM BP 535/30
Cy3: Fset43, EX BP 550/25 : DC 570 : EM BP 605/70
RFP: Fset63, EX BP 572/25: DC 590 : EM BP 629/62
Cy5: Fset50, EX BP 640/30 : DC 660 : EM BP 690/50

Transmitted light modes: bright-field

Objectives:
2.5x/0.12 NA (wd-8.7mm)
10x/0.45 NA (wd-2mm)
20x/0.8 NA (wd-0.55mm)
40x/0.95 NA (wd-0.25mm)
40x/1.4 NA oil (wd-0.13mm)
63x/1.4 NA oil (wd-0.19mm)
100x/1.4 NA oil (wd-0.17mm)

Special Feature: Zeiss-Apotome 2

Software: Zeiss ZEN

Camera: Zeiss AxioCam 506 (monochrome) Zeiss AxioCam 506 (color)

Ownership: common

Location: 264 Biomedical Sciences

Please note that you must have documented BSLII clearance before you can use this scope.

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M9 Multi-Focus Microscope (MFM)

This scope was built and designed by the Sara Abrahamsson Lab at UCSC. It captures 9 focal planes in the same instant through the use of diffractive optics. It is ideally suited for particle tracking in thin specimens with high temporal resolution. e.g. transcription loci.

Images are acquired in 9 focal planes within a 2.34 micron total volume. Each plane is spaced at 0.26 microns. This can be combined with a piezo drive based z-stack.

Laser excitation is at 488nm and/or 561nm. The dichroic is at 560nm. Green emission around 525 can be collected separately or simultaneously with a Red channel from 570-585nm.

Objective:
Olympus 60x/1.3 PLAN Apo Silicon Oil Immersion

Software: Micromanager for acquisition, MATLAB, FIJI and Visual Studio for processing and registration.

Camera: Hamamatsu Orca Fusion (Red channel), Andor iXon Ultra (Green channel)

Construction of this microscope was made possible through NSF Award ID 1828636.

Anyone seeking use of this instrument should contact Ben Abrams

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Solamere Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope

Best suited for imaging of thick (10-150 microns) live samples mounted on a standard microscope slide with a coverslip, in a small dish, or in an incubation chamber. Non-labeled and fluorescently-labeled samples may be used.

Stand: inverted, Nikon TE2000

Stage: motorized stage for 3D stack and multipoint image acquisition; sample holder available to accept slides, petri-dishes, and multi-well plates

Fluorescent filters available:

For direct observation through eyepieces:
DAPI: EX BP 360/40 : DC 400 : EM BP 460/50
GFP: EX BP 470/40 : DC 495 : EM BP 525/50
TRITC: EX BP 540.5/25 : DC 565 : EM BP 620/60

For confocal operation:
DAPI: EM 460/50
GFP+RFP: EM BP 528/80
GFP: EM BP 525/50
RFP: EM BP 593/40
Cy5: EM BP 700/75

Transmitted light modes: bright-field and DIC

Laser lines: solid state 405, 488, 561, 640

Objectives:
10x/0.3 NA (wd-16mm)
20x/0.50 NA (DIC) (wd-not available)
40x/0.75 NA (wd-0.66mm)
40x/1.3 NA oil (wd-0.2mm)
60x/1.4 NA oil (DIC) (wd-0.13mm)
100x/1.4 NA oil (DIC) (wd-not available)

Software: Micro-Manager

Scanner: Yokogawa CSU-X1 spinning disk

Camera: Hamamatsu ImagEM X2

Ownership: common

Location: 111 Sinsheimer Labs

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Leica SP5 Confocal Microscope

Best suited for thick (10-150 microns) samples mounted on a standard microscope slide with a coverslip or in a small petri dish. Used for FRAP, photo-activation, and scanning irregular regions of interest. Non-labeled and fluorescently-labeled samples may be used. Can capture highly dynamic processes if operated in resonance scanning mode.

Stand: inverted, Leica DMI6000

Stage: motorized stage for 3D stack, tiling, and multipoint image acquisition; sample holder will accommodate slides and small (60 mm) petri dishes

Fluorescent filters available:

For direct observation through eyepieces:
GFP
Texas Red
Simultaneous GFP + Texas Red

For confocal operation:
Spectral (AOTF)

Transmitted light modes: bright-field, DIC, and polarized light.

Laser lines: 405, Argon (458, 476, 488, 496, and 514) and HeNe (543, 594, and 633)

Objectives:
10x/0.3 NA (wd-11mm)
20x/0.75 NA (wd-0.59mm)
40x/1.25-0.75 NA oil DIC (wd-0.1mm)
63x/1.4-0.6 NA oil DIC (wd-0.1mm)
63x/1.2 NA water (wd-0.14mm)

Software: Leica Application Suite Advanced Fluorescence

Detectors: 3 channels available for simultaneous fluorescent image acquisition, 1 available for transmitted light image acquisition; standard scanning and fast resonance scanning (8000 Hz) modes available.

Ownership: common

Location: 111 Sinsheimer Labs

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Zeiss 880 Confocal Microscope with Airyscan Fast

IMPORTANT:

If you publish data generated on this scope you must cite NIH S10 Grant 1S10OD23528-01.

Best suited for thick (10-150 microns) samples mounted on a standard microscope slide with a coverslip or in a petri-dish or multi-well plate. Non-labeled and fluorescently-labeled samples may be used. Time-course experiments on thick specimens requiring a temperature or CO2-controlled environment or both.

Stand: inverted, AxioObserver.Z1

Stage: motorized stage for 3D stack and multi-point image acquisition; sample holder available to accept slides, petri-dishes, and multi-well plates

Fluorescent filters available:

For direct observation through eyepieces:
DAPI
GFP
Rhodamine
mCherry

For confocal operation:
We have the “2+1” configuration which has 1 super-cooled multi-alkali, 1 standard multi-alkali and 1 GaAsP detector. These detectors are all spectral. The Airy detector can also be used in combination with these detectors to add a 4th channel that is filter based.

For Airyscan operation:
BP 420-480 + BP 495-550
BP 495-550 + LP570
BP 570-620 + LP645
BP 465-505 + LP 525
BP 420-480 + LP 605

Transmitted light modes: bright-field

Laser lines: 405, Argon (458, 488, and 514) and HeNe (561, 594 and 633)

Objectives:
10x/0.45 NA (wd-2.0mm)
20x/0.4 NA, corr LD (wd-8.4mm)
20x/0.8 NA (wd-0.55mm)
40x/0.95 NA corr (wd-0.25mm)
40x/1.2 water objective (wd-0.28mm)
63x/1.4 NA oil (wd-0.19mm)

Software: Zeiss ZEN Black for microscope control, ZEN Blue for additional processing

Detectors: 4 channels available for simultaneous fluorescent image acquisition, 1 channel available for transmitted light image acquisition

Ownership: common, but access must be approved by 880 confocal oversight committee until further notice. Please refer to the Zeiss 880 Confocal External User Policy about our access policy for this scope.

Location: 264 Biomedical Sciences

Please note that you must have documented BSLII clearance before you can use this scope.

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Image Analysis Workstation

Best suited for post-acquisition processing and analysis of images where image processing software is operating-system-specific and where operations are RAM-intensive. Helps keep microscopes and image acquisition computers available for data acquisition.

Software:

• FIJI – Image J
• Zeiss LSM Browser
• Leica AF Lite Viewer
• Microsoft Excel
• Keyence Analyzer with Dynamic Cell Count and Measurement modules
• Keyence resizer

Ownership: common

Location: 111 Sinsheimer Labs

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BioMed Image Analysis Workstation

Best suited for post-acquisition processing and analysis of images where image processing software is operating-system-specific and where operations are RAM-intensive. Helps keep microscopes and image acquisition computers available for data acquisition.

Software:

• Imaris
• AutoQuantX3
• Neurolucida
• Zeiss ZEN
• FIJI – Image J
• Zeiss LSM Browser
• Zeiss ZEN Lite
• Leica AF Lite Viewer
• Microsoft Office
• Keyence Analyzer with Dynamic Cell Count and Measurement modules
• Keyence resizer

Ownership: common

Location: 264 BioMed

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Access

The facility is open to researchers inside and outside the life sciences community; however, investigators conducting life sciences research are given priority when reserving microscope time.

Permission and training from the microscopy center director is sufficient to use scopes owned in common. For lab-owned scopes, users must receive specific use permission.

Access to any equipment purchased on NIH instrumentation grants is subject to the terms of those grants and may require approval by the instrument advisory committee. Contact the center director if you wish to use a shared instrument in the facility or request services.

Training

Training and account set up is MANDATORY for all systems before they can be used independently. Please request training using the link above if you have not yet completed it. If it has been more than 6 months since you have used a particular microscope, before resuming use please contact the facility director for refresher training and updates. You are encouraged to reach out with questions at any time, regardless of how recently you trained.

Please see the Fee Schedule for questions regarding training fees.

General Use

• Be sure to read, understand an adhere to any policies posted by this facility.
• Be careful not to slop immersion oil around; it will create a sticky, dust-collecting mess. Clean the microscope stages and working area at the end of each section. Be sure to dispose of your used slides in the provided glass waste container. Spills or broken slides must be reported to the center manager immediately.
• Treat objectives with respect! Clean your slide before loading it on the stage; mixing different types of immersion oil may result in precipitation that is very difficult to clean.
• If you turn on the mercury lamp (for epi-fluorescence), it should stay on for at least 30 minutes. If you turn it off, it must stay off for 45 minutes before it can be turned on again.
• In the unlikely event of a mercury bulb blowing (with a loud pop sound), shut off the bulb power supply and evacuate the room of all users immediately. Put a “Stay Out” sign on the door and contact EH&S (831-459-2553) and the microscopy center manager (831-459-3999) immediately. The room must air out for at least 30 minutes.
• When you are done with your session, be sure to fill out the paper log next to the scope you are using.
• At the end of the session, place the objective turret in an empty or low mag position and place the stage in the appropriate position per scope- specific policy.
• Remember to place the dust cover back on the scope if you turn the scope off. Never place dust covers on the floor.
• If you experience any problems with a scope it is your responsibility to email the facility manager to report the problem as soon as possible (see also Communications Section).

Communication

Once you have been trained and have an active account you will be added to a scope-specific Google group to communicate issues specific to that scope with all other users of the instrument. This may include late changes in reservation status or issues with the hardware or software etc.

It is your responsibility to communicate problems with any scope or with the facility (e.g. missing supplies) with the facility director. You can do so by emailing the director directly or by emailing the scope-specific Google group.

If you need to contact another user directly, you can find out their email by clicking on their reservation in the reservation calendar and looking at the “Created by:” field. This will display their CruzID and you can add @ucsc.edu to the CruzID to get their email.

Facility Biohazard Procedures (BSL2)

All users must have an approved BUA on file and must fill out the safety questionnaire (see top of page) before doing any project in the facility.

Glove Policy: Gloves should only need to be worn while loading a hazardous sample onto the scope. Do not use soiled gloves on the microscope or computer controls.

People working in our Risk Group 2/BSL2 designated areas are also encouraged to take the “Biological Agents in Shared Facilities Awareness Training”, which is available through our campus Learning Center (login and “Find a Course” to search).

Be sure to disinfect any areas that might have become contaminated with a virulent agent during your session.

Scheduling

• All microscope sessions must be scheduled through the PBSci Equipment Reservation webpage. Log into the PBSci reservation webpage with your CruzID and password. If you are having trouble logging in to the PBSci site, please email help@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-4357, option 1.
• When making a reservation please enter your assigned microscopy user ID into the “Client’s name or Status:” field.
• Be realistic with your scheduling. The time that you schedule is time that someone else cannot use the equipment.
• It is your responsibility to know if someone has booked the scope after you. This policy may differ depending on which scope you are using, so be sure to obey the scope-specific guidelines provided during training. You should check the reservation web page no more than 30 minutes before the start of your session—please be sure that the web page has refreshed. Generally, if you are using a widefield microscope and the next user is coming 30 min. or less after your session ends, leave everything on (see additional note about LEDs below). If it will be more than 30 min before the next user, turn everything off. If you are using a confocal microscope and the next user is coming less than 2 hours after your session ends, leave everything on (see additional note about LEDs below), otherwise turn everything off—this will help maintain the health of lasers and other light sources.
• If you add a new reservation for a scope while another user is on that scope, or less than 30 minutes before the start of that user’s session, and your new reservation affects what they will do with the scope when they are done, it is your responsibility to tell that user and to ask them to leave the scope on for you.
• It is always OK to turn LED light sources off at the end of your session since they don’t require warm-up or cool down time.
• If you receive instrument-specific instructions about this during training, those instructions supersede the information in this policies section.

Cancellation

• If you must cancel a reservation please do so at least 24 hours before the scheduled session. If you finish early, please notify the next user.
• If you must cancel a reservation less than 24 hours before it is scheduled, please be considerate of other users and let them know by sending an email to the scope-specific Google group (mentioned above). Please adhere to the last-minute cancellation guidelines below.
• If you cancel your reservation less than 30 minutes before another person’s scheduled start time, it is your responsibility to make sure that the scope gets turned off after they are finished (they are expecting to leave it on)—either by turning the scope off yourself or by asking the previous user if he or she can do it for you.
• If you cancel your reservation less than 30 minutes before another user’s session is scheduled to end, it is your responsibility to turn the scope off.

Data Transfer and Disk Space

• The microscopy facility assumes NO responsibility for data storage. All hard drives will eventually fail. It is impossible to protect data from viruses with 100% confidence. It is the user’s responsibility to backup data.
• If you need to use the scope for data transfer to a portable hard drive, please reserve it as you would normally. This is the only way to ensure its availability. You should consider doing the data transfer while you are imaging to maximize scope availability and minimize your cost.
• It is recommended that you get a USB 3.0 drive (transfers ~10x faster than 2.0) or, even better, a USB-C drive, but this will require an adapter on most of our computers. It is recommended that you format the drive with ExFAT, this format is readable and writable by Windows and MacOS and has a larger than 4GB single file size limit.
• Users are encouraged to back up files frequently to reduce data transfer time.
• When saving data be sure to save it to the specified location on the specific computer that you are using – generally [Drive location] -> Image Data Folder -> Lab specific folder -> Your user folder.
• Effective December 1, 2021: User data must be removed from the acquisition computer within 90 days of collection. Data may need to be removed sooner if the drive gets full. Data that is older than 90 days may be deleted without further notice.

Citing the Facility and Instrumentation Grants

All publications containing research performed at the center must acknowledge the facility as: “Technical support from Benjamin Abrams, UCSC Life Sciences Microscopy Center, RRID: SCR_021135.”

Please alert the facility director when citing the facility so the publication can be recorded.

If you are using an instrument purchased with an instrumentation grant you must cite that grant number. See the instrument descriptions for specific information. This currently applies to users of the Zeiss 880 Confocal.

If you are publishing data generated on the 880 confocal please include the statement in your acknowledgements or methods section: “Purchase of the Zeiss 880 confocal microscope used in this research was made possible through the National Institutes of Health s10 Grant 1S10OD23528-01.”

Please refer to these additional guidelines about when acknowledgement vs. co-authorship is warranted. Please contact the IBSC if the Google drive link does not work.

Keys

Please use the links at the top of this page to request brass key access to Sinsheimer rooms or key card access to BioMed. Please be sure to list your P.I. as your supervisor on your key requests, not the Microscopy Center Director.

Food and Drink

No eating or drinking is permitted in the microscope rooms.

If you have a recent publication that acknowledges the UCSC Life Sciences Microscopy Center that is not listed below, please contact us and provide the PMID for your publication.

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3. Abrams B, Pengo T, Wee T-L, Deagle RC, Vuillemin N, Callahan LM, Smith MA, Kubow KE, Girard A-M, Rappoport JZ, Bayles CJ, Cameron LA, Cole R, Brown CM. Tissue-Like 3D Standard and Protocols for Microscope Quality Management. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 2023. doi: 10.1093/micmic/ozad014.
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9. Palmer J, Segura CJ, Matsushima L, Abrams B, Lee HW, Ayzner AL. Conjugated polyelectrolyte-based ternary exciton funnels via liposome scaffolds. Mol Syst Des Eng. 2022;7(4):392-402. doi: 10.1039/d1me00139f. PubMed PMID: WOS:000749246400001.
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12. Johnston AR. Investigation into the Photophysics and Phase Behavior of Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Complexes: UC Santa Cruz; 2022.
13. Bowman B. The Structure of Prevacuolar Compartments in Neurospora Crassa as Observed with Super-Resolution Microscopy. Available at SSRN 4221732. 2022.
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