About LMCF

The Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF) offers confocal and conventional fluorescence microscopes and image analysis resources. The facility is based in the LSRC and FFSC and is open to all members of Duke University and the Medical Center Campuses. You will find details about the equipment, capabilities and services offered by the facility on the other pages of this website. Please contact the facility if you have any questions.

Funding

The facility recovers some of the direct costs through user fees. The fees for using the microscopes are heavily subsidized by generous funding from the following sources:

Use

The facility is heavily used by many labs from across Duke. In the first year of operation, LMCF was used 4938 times by a total of 329 users from 121 labs and 24 departments.

History

LMCF was initially formed from several departmental microscope resources in the LSRC. The Department of Biology and the Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology teamed up, along with the Comprehensive Cancer Center's Confocal Microscopy Shared Resource, to hire a Director to establish and run a cooperative microscope facility for the two departments.

Since then the facility has received funding from the Office of the Provost and the Dean of the Medical School to purchase new equipment and become a resource for the entire Duke community. The facility remains a Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Shared Resource.

Governance

The facility is overseen by a Faculty Advisory Committee, which in turn is overseen by designates of the Provost and the Dean of the Medical School.

Oversight Comittee

Sally Kornbluth (Vice Dean for the Basic Sciences)
John Simon (Vice Provost for Academic Affairs)

Faculty Advisory Committee

Danny Lew (Pharmacology & Cancer Biology)
Dan Kiehart (Biology)
Mariano Garcia-Blanco (Molecular Genetics & Microbiology)
Stephen Craig (Chemistry)
Rebecca Willett (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

LMCF in the news

Inside Duke Article from July 2007 | DukeMed Magazine article from Winter 2008 | Duke Research image

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