Live Imaging Core Facility

Overview of Services

The Live Imaging and Bioenergetics Facility hostes multiple state-of-arts instrument including:

  • Zeiss LSM 880 Airyscan inverted live cell confocal microscope
  • Zeiss LSM 880 Airyscan upright two photon confocal microscope
  • Imaris Analysis Workstations
  • Leica CS2 Aperio CS2 Slide Scanner
  • Agilent Seahorse XFe24 Live Cell Metabolism Analyzer

We support a range of applications including

  • Time-lapse live cell imaging with high-resolution optical sectioning
  • Deep imaging of fixed CLARITY tissues
  • Calcium imaging
  • Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP)
  • Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)
  • Laser ablation
  • Second-harmonic generation (SHG)
  • 4-D imaging analysis
  • Measuring mitochondrial respiration and glycolysis in live cells in real time

Leadership

Ye He, Director, yhe1@gc.cuny.edu

Location and hours of operation

Hours Location
Open: 85 St. Nicholas Ter
Monday-Friday 4th floor
9am-9pm New York, NY 10031
   
Staffed:  
Monday-Friday  
10am-6 pm  

Links and Resources

  1. https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/facilities/live-imaging/

Contacts

Name Role Phone Email Location
Ye He
Facility Director
 
212-413-3182
 
yhe1@gc.cuny.edu
 

 
Areej Niaz
Facility Manager
 

 
AREEJ.NIAZ54@gc.cuny.edu