Resources

The Central Microscopy Research Facilities are part of the Office of The University of Iowa Vice President for Research, located in Eckstein Medical Research Building . The facilities provide instrumentation and technical assistance to research programs involving the use of scanning and transmission electron microscopy, light microscopy, confocal microscopy, freeze fracture and x-ray microanalysis. The CMRF also provides all solutions,supplies and training necessary for investigators involving microtomy, negative staining, metal coating, autoradiography, cryo-fixation and cryomicrotomy, enzyme cytochemistry, immuno-cytochemistry, morphometry and stereology and the preparation of material science samples for both TEM and SEM including x-ray microanalysis and other procedures. Please see the CMRF website for more details.

 

Other interdisciplinary research facilities:
Microfabrication Facility
NMR Facility
X-ray Diffraction Facility
Mass Spectrometry Facility