University of Pennsylvania

Contact Info:

Andrea Stout

https://www.med.upenn.edu/cdbmicroscopycore/

Grants and Identifiers:

RRID: RRID:SCR_022373

Instrumentation:

Services Provided:

Relevant Publications:

1.) Nelson KA, Lenhart KF, Anllo L, DiNardo S (2025 Jan 3). The Drosophila hematopoietic niche assembles through collective cell migration controlled by neighbor tissues and Slit-Robo signaling eLife, 13(), RP100455. . PMCID: 11698496.

2.) Swingle KL, Hamilton AG, Safford HC, Geisler HC, Thatte AS, Palanki R, Murray AM, Han EL, Mukalel AJ, Han X, Joseph RA, Ghalsasi AA, Alameh MG, Weissman D, Mitchell MJ (2024 Dec 11). Placenta-tropic VEGF mRNA lipid nanoparticles ameliorate murine pre-eclampsia Nature, 637(8045), 412-421. . PMCID: 12205896.

3.) Shoenhard H, Granato M (2023 Feb 14). Multivariate analysis of variegated expression in Neurons: A strategy for unbiased localization of gene function to candidate brain regions in larval zebrafish PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0281609. . PMCID: 9928119.

Description:

Core provides personalized assistance on all aspects of imaging, from tips on sample preparation to training on one of our microscopes to assistance with image data analysis. Facility houses confocal microscopes, a Zeiss Z.1 Lightsheet system, three widefield light microscopes, and several computers dedicated to image processing and analysis. Offers scanning electron microscope sample preparation and imaging.