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Glenn Fried, Director, Phd: "Core Facilities provide access to instrumentation 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week. We train approximately 350 users per year."
Your resource for: light microscopy, image analysis, and analytical instrumentation.
Mayandi (Shiv) Sivguru, Microscopy Facility Manager, Phd: "Train the person on the machine
by explaining what this machine can do for him or her. Then they will come and use and
then we don't stop there. We also interpret, help people interpret the results that they
get from the machines. Then we also provide top-notch computer equipment and world-class
software to analyze their 3D data."
Donna Epps, Research Specialist, Life Sciences: "I train people to cut their own samples.
This is a 24/7 access building so if they want to come in here evenings of weekends
to get their stuff cut, they can do that."
Mayandi (Shiv) Sivguru: "We have a confocal two photon laser scanning microscope, like
the one you see in the back, it's one of the world-class machines. The laser was the first
70 femtosecond laser shipped out of spectraphysics when we bought this. This machine can handle
most of, and is one of the main instruments available right now working on this campus."
Core facilities in an extension of your lab.
Glenn Fried: "Once they are trained, we encourage them to view the core facilites as an extension
of their lab."
We offer: optical microscopy, sample processing, analytical software, cameras, and micro-fabrication.
Carly Hill, Graduate Student, Department of Geology: "The first attraction to core facilities
was the instruments and the high, high resolution that we were getting from using the microscopes.
And the image analysis, which allowed us to quantify those observations, but what's really
a huge attribute for core facilities is the people. With my project at least Glenn and
Shiv they really jumped in and they started making suggestions, things that are out of
my realm of expertise, and they started suggesting different techniques and different microscopes
and that really helped us out a lot."
Glenn Fried: "The core facilities is open to everyone on campus. About 40% of our users
are not IGB affiliated. We have everyone from the engineering side of campus all the way
down to vet med come here and we're sort of centrally located so we can help all of those
people."
Core facilities is open to IGB researchers and the campus community. We have 400+ users
annually, encourage innovation, and help you achieve your goals.
Fore information and to learn how core facilities can help you:
www.core.igb.illinois.edu