New Users

  • The facility is open to all members of Duke University and the Medical Center
  • We welcome new users of any level of micoscopy experience
  • Training is tailored to your needs and previous experience
  • Our approach is to teach people what you need to know to get using the scopes quickly, please ask in the future if you want to learn more.

Please browse this basic tutorial on microscopy before training

To request training and help us make your training appropriate for you please fill out the form below. We generally find it best to train people shortly before starting to use the systems with your own samples so it is fresh in your mind.

All users must be trained by LMCF staff and follow the rules
There are fees for using LMCF resources
Name:
PI:
(Will be used for billing)
Department:
email:
netid:
Unique id:
Lab Phone:

Which microscope do you want to use? Help me choose

Previous experience?
Briefly, what do you want to do? - eg What is the sample that you want to image, are the samples fixed or live, which fluorophores will you use?