Glendale Core Research Facility
State-of-the-art instrumentation for research at the Glendale, AZ campus.
The Ƶ Core Facility at the Glendale, AZ campus maintains advanced instruments in several areas of strength including cell culture, histology, microscopy, image processing, and cell and analytical biology. There are no fees to use these instruments, and most are available on a direct walk-up basis. Reservations to use instruments are handled using the University's online scheduling system. Our facility is overseen by a Faculty Advisor and managed by a full-time staff, with training and troubleshooting also provided by the staff. The Core Facility continuously assesses the changing needs of our research community and receives funding from Ƶ to add new equipment and resources.
white-light laser, and “Lightning” sharpening module.
Credit: © Ƶ, Manan Damani.
Available Instrumentation
- Labconco Purifier Logic+ Class II biosafety cabinet
- Thermo Scientific Heracell VIOS 160i CO2 incubator
- Thermo Scientific Heracell VIOS 160i normoxia/hypoxia CO2 incubator
- Beckman Coulter ALLEGRA X-30R refrigerated centrifuge
- 10 L bead bath
- Corning cell counter
- Laxco LMI-3000 inverted microscope with camera
- Dell Mobile Precision 5570 Laptop
- Sakura Tissue-Tek VIP 6 tissue processor
- Sakura Tissue-Tek TEC 5 paraffin embedding stations
- Leica HistoCore Autocut microtome
- Thermo Scientific Microm HM325 microtome with cooling clamp
- Thermo Scientific Microm HM550 cryostat
- Leica ST5020 automated stainer
- Leica CV5030 automated coverslipper
- Zeiss Stemi SV11 stereomicroscope
- Thermo Scientific Orion Star A211 pH meter
- Leica Stellaris 5 inverted confocal microscope with tunable white-light laser
- Leica SPE inverted confocal microscope
- LCI stage-top incubator system compatible with both confocal microscopes
- Keyence BZ-X700 inverted, all-in-one fluorescent microscope with stage-top incubation
- Zeiss Axio Imager Z1 upright fluorescent microscope with structured illumination
- Olympus IX73 motorized inverted fluorescent microscope
- Olympus BX63 motorized upright bright-field microscope
- FEI Amira-Avizo (15 floating licenses)
- Media Cybernetics Image-Pro 11 (2 floating licenses)
- Titan W422 workstation (Intel Xeon; 128 GB RAM; NVIDIA Quadro P6000 24 GB; 4 TB storage)
- Agilent Seahorse XFe96 cell metabolism analyzer with BioTek Cytation 1
- Bio-Rad S3e cell sorter in BSL-2 containment