Resources can be booked by the hour, using the KEENSCOPES group name, on the Faces booking site (faces.ccrc.uga.edu).

Do not use between 1am and 3am without arranging for the Ozone room sterilizer to be switched off.

Faces booking Site

There are three confocal microscopes, and a confocal-ready combination microscope.

Cancelling a booking on the confocal systems needs 24h notice, to give other users a chance to arrange use of the vacated time on these busy systems.  All other resources can be canceled up to the start of the first booked hour.

Other imaging equipment includes the latest Hitachi environmental SEM; a luminescence imager with fluorescence capability, which had new filters added for a 2017 Nature Methods paper,   a high performance fluorescence stereo microscope, an enlarger stand with camera, and a small LED equipped stereo scope for viewing only.  A Singer Mk1 manual micro manipulator can be used with the stereo microscope for fine dissection work.

For sample preparation, there is a cryostat, oscillating tissue slicer (Vibratome) and ultramicrotome, a gene gun, a laminar flow hood, an incubator for animal cells, a vacuum oven, a manual micromanipulator, and an Arabidopsis growth chamber:  Also a critical point dryer, and a sputter coater with Gold Palladium substrate.  Our microtome is moving to the Histology Core in Webber Hall.

The large dual-bridge robot has a sterile enclosure and high-volume plate carousel.  This system is functional but no longer has service support.

Imaris by Bitplane is a very powerful 3D and 4D data display and analysis package, running on a very fast PC, which can be operated remotely. Zen3 is Zeiss software which can be used for processing Airyscan and Airyscan Fast datasets.  ZigZag is tiling software, used on the new Hitachi TM4000ePlus, which then uses Microsoft ICE to stitch together very large electron micrographs.  Many users like to use the free FIJI or Image J software to do post-processing on their own computers.