Imaging Cores - Electron

Overview of Services

Electron Microscopy

The Imaging Cores - Electron facility provides full Biological Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) related research, consultation, and imaging services to faculty, scientists and students of the University of Arizona campus and external research institutions or industrial community. Users bring to the Core fixed samples and we process them for TEM, ultramicrotomy (thick resin sections suitable for light microscopy and ultrathin sections for TEM), and digital images acquisition. Individual training is available to the users interested in operating the FEI Tecnai T12 Spirit transmission electron microscope to obtain their own images and the ultramicrotomes to section their samples upon request. We are also available to support you in planning for future experiments, writing grants, publications and collaborations.

 Acknowledging the Imaging Cores - Electron:

The facility and staff provides access to instrumentation and services and guidance to users research. Proper acknowledgement of the core and staff serve as a metric for assessing the performance of the facility and to ensure and impact financial support for operations and expansion from the UA administration. Please acknowledge the core and the staff in your publications accordingly, we will supply appropriate verbiage.

 Note: As of February 1, 2022 the optical microscopy aspect of this core was rolled into Imaging Cores – Marley, which was re-named Imaging Cores - Optical. No optical microscopes or workstations were physically moved from their current locations, the imaging cores were simply re-aligned and re-named around their functions rather than their locations. IC-Optical operates in the Marley and Life Sciences North buildings with the same personalized service that you have come to expect from Patty Jansma and Doug Cromey.

Leadership

Paula Tonino, PhD

TEM Scientist/Facility Manager
Phone: (520) 626-2670
Email: toninop@arizona.edu

Binh Chau, BS

EM Sample Prep Technician 
Phone: (520) 626-6009
Email: bchau@arizona.edu

Hours

Location

Monday - Friday   
8:00AM - 5:00PM

24/7 Access to Trained Users   

Life Sciences North
Room 410