Research Cores

Neuroscience Microscope Core

The Neuroscience Microscope Core offers laser confocal microscopy services.

Personnel/Contact Information:

Director: Cristopher Bragg, Ph.D. 
Phone: (617) 643-5754
Fax: (617) 726-6656
Email: dbragg1@partners.org

Other Staff:

Research Technologist: Igor Bagayev
Phone: (617) 724-0588
Fax: (617) 726-5677
Email: ibagayev@partners.org

Facilities and Equipments:

Location of Core:

The facility is located at Building 149, 13th Street, Room 6028B, Charlestown.

Major Equipment:

This Core consists of a Zeiss LSM 5 Pascal laser confocal microscope. The Zeiss RGB vario laser module consists of argon laser (458/488/514 nm) and two helium-neon lasers (543 and 633 nm). A Zeiss Axiovert 200 fully motorized light microscope is available with fluorescence, bright-field, phase-contrast and Nomarski (DIC) capabilities. Image acquisition and analyses are performed using Zeiss LSM 5 Pascal Confocal Microscopy Software (Release 3.2) on 2 workstations. Zeiss Physiology software is available also. Live cell imaging is available using a Zeiss temperature controller with custom chamber and heating stage.

Getting Started:

To access the core, please contact Igor Bagayev at (617) 724-0588 or by email at ibagayev@partners.org.

Links to other outside Academic and Comercially Available Services:

Departmental Web Link:

http://www2.massgeneral.org/ncs/neuro_core_ConfocalMicroscope.htm