Research Facilities
Departmental Shared Equipment Resources
Microscopes
- Olympus FV3000 confocal Microscope
- Andor Dragonfly Dragonfly spinning disk confocal microscope system that integrates widefield, confocal, and TI (Sign up instructions for Google Calendar) RF imaging modality
- Zeiss Apotome (Sign up instructions for Google Calendar).
- Leica Thunder (Sign up instructions for Google Calendar).
- Olympus Upright Fluorescence microscope for routine imaging/screening (Sign up instructions for the Google Calendar).
- FEI L120C Transmission Electron Microscope (Sign up Calendar)
FACS Facility
National Eye Institute-Funded Core Facilities
- Microscopy and Tissue Processing Module (Module Director Paul FitzGerald, Ph.D. (pgfitzgerald@ucdavis.edu)
- Viral Vector Packaging Facility (Module Director Marie Burns, Ph.D. (meburns@ucdavis.edu)
- Small Animal Adaptive Optics, Optical Coherence Microscopy, SLO (Module Director Ed Pugh, Jr., Ph.D. (enpugh@ucdavis.edu)
- Software Engineering, (Module Director Marty Usrey, Ph.D. (wmusrey@ucdavis.edu)
Shared Equipment
- Andor Dragonfly Dragonfly spinning disk confocal microscope system that integrates widefield, confocal, and TI (Sign up instructions for Google Calendar) RF imaging modality
- Zeiss Apotome (Sign up instructions for Google Calendar).
- Leica Thunder (Sign up instructions for Google Calendar).
- Ultracentrifuges: Full size Beckman L70, Table Top Beckman Optima Max XP small volume
- HiSpeed centrifuges: Thermo Scientific Lynx 4000
- Cold Room
- Tissue Culture Facility
- Rodent Anesthesia Station
- DualHeaded Training Microscope
- Dissecting Microscope with camera and monitor
- Leica Paraffin Embedder,
- Paraffin Microtome
- Leica LM3050 Cryostats (2) (Sign up instructions for the Google Calendar)
- Reichert Ultra Microtome
- Critical Point Dryer
- Azure Systems Gel Imager
- Licor Odyssey Gel Image
- OptoMotry for quantifying rodent Visual Motor behavior
A very wide range of major campus core facilities are available, and may be viewed here.
The campus is home to the California National Primate Research Facility.