Equipment

Microscopy Workstations
BIPL houses a multi-photon confocal microscope, two single photon confocal microscopes, and four microscopy/image analysis and stereology workstations which include a laser tweezers system, microinjection/micromanipulation units, environmental chambers for live cell work, 3D reconstruction workstations for optical sections, photoflashing, ion transfer (with INDO dyes), low light video rate capture, 4D collection (time and z-series collection), the ability to montage hundreds to thousands of high-magnification fields to make a single image, and other microscopy solutions upon request.

Molecular Biology & Genomics/Proteomics
BIPL houses a laser capture microdissection workstation, a microarray scanner, an Affymetrix chip reader and bioinformatics workstation, a densitometry workstation for measuring densities from x-ray films, gels and blots, and a phosphor/chemifluorescence imaging workstation (fluorescence in the fluorescein or green emission and rhodamine or red emission ranges). As of this writing, a microspotter workstation and a 2D gel imaging workstation are yet to come.

Image Acquisition & Image Output
Several workstations allow for scanning from 35mm film, microscope slides, artwork, and from 3D objects, along with inkjet printers, a high resolution 52-inch poster printer, a slide writer to 35mm film and a digital imaging device that produces high-resolution, full-color photographs, as well as a non-linear video editing system able to collect stills and produce side-by-side videos (such as when control conditions and experimental need to be viewed side-by-side) for output to S-VHS, VHS, quicktime, or AVI movies.