{"id":36,"date":"2011-03-15T14:44:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2017-06-07T10:11:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:11:18","slug":"center-for-biophotonics-science-and-technology-shared-facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/center-resources\/center-for-biophotonics-science-and-technology-shared-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology Shared Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NSF Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology is located on the UC Davis Medical Center campus in Sacramento, California. \u00a0Construction of this 9,679 ft2 state of the art facility was completed in June 2005 and includes CBST\u2019s central laboratories, administrative offices, meeting and seminar rooms, student\/post-doctoral researcher offices, and student\/faculty exchange. \u00a0The facility also has a dedicated teaching laboratory\/classroom focused on the education of K-16 students and teachers, interdisciplinary researchers and industrial affiliates. \u00a0The details of each laboratory and its instrument capabilities are summarized in the descriptions below.<\/p>\n<p>There are four main instrument laboratories: Non-Linear Microscopy Lab, Single Molecule Spectroscopy Lab, Advanced Imaging Spectroscopy Lab and an Instrument Development Lab. \u00a0Each of these labs are populated with state-of-the-art equipment to manipulate, section, hold, study and image biological samples and tissue samples in living animals at the cellular and sub-cellular levels. A summary of equipment in each of these labs follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Non-Linear Microscopy Lab:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Two-color Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) ratiometric scanning microscope<br \/>\n\u2022 Time gated Raman spectrometer (on-line \u2192 Fall 2010)<br \/>\n\u2022 High power femto-second laser microscope<br \/>\n\u2022 Multi-Photon Microscope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Single Molecule Spectroscopy Lab:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) microscope<br \/>\n\u2022 Laser trap Raman spectroscopy system<br \/>\n\u2022 Till photonics robotic microscope<br \/>\n\u2022 Nipkow spinning disk confocal microscope<br \/>\n\u2022 Fiber-probe Raman spectrometer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Advanced Imaging Spectroscopy Lab:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Structured Illumination Microscope (OMX) super-resolution microscope<br \/>\n\u2022 Atomic Force Microscope<br \/>\n\u2022 Delta Vision Deconvolution Microscope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Instrument Development Lab<\/strong><br \/>\nIn order to help bridge the gap between early stage development of new photonic based devices and applications in biology and medical science, a prototyping laboratory will be available. This lab will consist of a fully functional laser lab including basic optical components. \u00a0The prototyping lab will be used for the design and implementation of biomedical instruments. \u00a0Currently, this space is being used for the development of an endoscope capable of fluorescence and white light imaging for the early diagnosis of bladder cancer in human patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Engineering Lab<\/strong><br \/>\nThis space houses several machine and electronic tools, materials, and test equipment used for engineering photonic devices. Additionally, this space includes an electrical work bench area for the design, construction, and testing of prototype devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Biochemistry\/Chemistry Lab<\/strong><br \/>\nThe biochemistry\/chemistry lab is fully equipped with the standard equipment used in the synthesis of biochemical products. \u00a0These capabilities include ample bench space, chemical hoods, and biosafety cabinets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tissue Culture Lab<\/strong><br \/>\nThe tissue culture lab is fully equipped with the standard equipment used in the maintenance and manipulation of cell culture lines. \u00a0These capabilities include biosafety cabinets and incubators. \u00a0This lab will be connected to the freezer\/storage room which is equipped with liquid nitrogen storage, ultralow temperature freezers, and standard refrigerator and freezer storage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Educational Research<\/strong><br \/>\nThis space is dedicated for the purposes of education and training, and is equipped with a suite of tools for the demonstration and hands on execution of simple instructional biophotonics experiments. \u00a0These instruments include: research grade microscopes with multiple imaging modes such as phase contrast, DIC, and fluorescence microscopy; various fiber-optic based spectrometers; basic molecular biology equipment; and data acquisition instrumentation. The space also has several computers for individual and group work, along with an image and video analysis and editing station.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSF Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology is located on the UC Davis Medical Center campus in Sacramento, California. \u00a0Construction of this 9,679 ft2 state of the art facility was completed in June 2005 and includes CBST\u2019s central laboratories, administrative offices, meeting and seminar rooms, student\/post-doctoral researcher offices, and student\/faculty exchange. \u00a0The facility also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4325,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/2982"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}