Core for Micro Imaging Facility

The Core for Micro Imaging Facility in located in the west wing of the basement of the VA San Diego Healthcare Systems Hospital. Approximately 1500 square feet are divided into a meeting/image processing room, a tissue preparatory room, one sectioning room with Reichert/Leica and RMC ultramicrotomes, one dedicated to a Zeiss EM10C electron microscope (with Gatan 785, 11 megapixel digital camera) and the other to a Zeiss LSM510 and a Zeiss LSM5 Pascal laser scanning confocal microscopes. All microscope systems are connected to the UCSD network.