Molecular Histology and Fluorescence Imaging Core Facility

The MHFI Core is a fully equipped histology and imaging lab designed to provide support for experiments in immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence. The research centers it supports focus on neurobiology, environmental health, biomolecular structure and dynamics. We offer routine fixation, embedding, sectioning and staining of tissue specimens- either paraffin embedded or frozen tissue. The Imaging component provides researchers with analyzable images of cells/ tissues taken from both the light and confocal microscopes. All of the microscopes in MHFI are interfaced with computers with proprietary software for collecting digital images. We also have copies of the software installed on workstation computers for post-collection analysis.