This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $582,025 awarded September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund the acquisition of a laser-scanning confocal microscope for research and training at California State University, Chico. The confocal microscope will enhance undergraduate and graduate education in multiple life sciences disciplines such as cellular science, microbiology, genetics, and developmental biology by enabling in-depth...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) provides $1,769,674 to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to purchase a Leica Stellaris 8 (LS8) confocal microscope. The LS8 will replace UCSC's aging 16-year-old confocal microscope and enhance the imaging capabilities of its Life Sciences Microscopy Center core facility. The new microscope will support NIH-funded...
This $573,147 National Science Foundation Project Grant through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund the acquisition of a Zeiss LSM 900 confocal microscope with Airyscan for Queens College of the City University of New York's Core Facility for Imaging, Cell, and Molecular Biology. The microscope will enhance multidisciplinary research and training at the minority-serving institution by enabling new microscopy courses and outreach activities promoting STEM access for...
This $348,583 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) will provide a Nikon CSU-W1 spinning disk confocal microscope system to Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. The new high-resolution, high-speed imaging system will support diverse biomedical research projects by NIH-funded investigators at the college, including studies on neuronal structures, cell mechanics,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $749,362.00 to the University of South Carolina to acquire a ZEISS LSM 980 with Airyscan2 confocal microscope system. This new high-end imaging system will replace the aging LSM 700 microscope that has become less functional over time, and is essential for supporting active NIH-funded research projects as well as new grant proposals across the university's...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), provides $374,399 in funding to the University of California, Davis to develop innovative two-photon microscopy systems with scattering correction capabilities for deep tissue imaging. The goal of this research is to enable high-speed, high-resolution imaging through scattering biological tissues, such as intact mouse organs, by...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $942,983 to acquire a Bruker Luxendo TruLive3D light-sheet microscope system. The award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025, will enable rapid 3D volumetric imaging of live specimens such as mouse, fly, and zebrafish embryos with high resolution and minimal phototoxicity. This advanced microscope system will benefit a user group of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $499,553 Project Grant to Grinnell College under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to acquire a laser scanning confocal microscope. The microscope will support research and teaching activities in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, and physics at Grinnell College from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. Specifically, the microscope will be used to study synaptic plasticity, detect microtubule formation below the diffraction limit of...
This federal Project Grant award of $551,957 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides funding to the University of Scranton to acquire an Olympus Fluoview FV4000 inverted confocal microscope system. This microscope will be integrated into the university's upper-level biology courses and made accessible to faculty at other local universities to enhance research and training capabilities in multiple biological fields, including cellular...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $291,224 Project Grant (CFDA 93.859 - Biomedical Research and Research Training) to the University of Chicago to develop BRAVE-EM, a novel imaging technique that combines the wavelength specificity of optical light microscopy with the spatial resolution and volume imaging capabilities of electron microscopy. This 5-year research program, starting on August 15, 2024, seeks to enable simultaneous functional and structural imaging...