The Core is available 24 hours a day to support your research endeavors.
The Core Facilities trains hundreds of new users each year on one or more instruments, and are as essential portion of the IGB’s Pollen Power summer camp program, bringing middle-school age children from local communities to engage with the Core.
Our new user procedures form guides users through the training process. To request training (theory training is required for most microscopes including LSM 700, LSM 710, Apotome, SR-SIM, before the hands-on training), please fill out our training request form. Users have access to IGB disk space through the IGB computer and network resources group to transfer data. To request access to the IGB building, please fill out the IGB Connect Access Request.
Training pages can be found here.
In addition to the typical fee for training and instrument time, collaborations with the core facilities staff can be beneficial in the development of unique methods or capabilities. Publications containing work performed in the core facilities should use these guidelines for acknowledging the core facilities. Download a copy of our brochure.
The IGB Core cooperates with the following facilities on campus to provide an extensive selection of instrumentation to campus researchers:
The IGB Core Facilities hosts a seminar series each semester covering instrumentation in the Core and research taking place in the Core. Previous Lunch with the Core information can be found below.
February 14, 2024 |
"Integrating Live Confocal Microscope Imagery of Plant Stomata with Gas Exchange Measurements" - Joseph Crawford, Postdoctoral Research Associate - Plant Biology Instrument: LSM 710 Joe's talk can be found here. |
February 28, 2024 |
"Introduction to STEDYCON: A Confocal and STED System with Super-resolution Capabilities" - Umnia Doha, Research Scientist - Core Facilities Instrument: STEDYCON Umnia's talk can be found here. |
March 6, 2024 |
"X-Ray Computed Tomography in the Core Facility: Research and Manufacturing Applications of the NSI X5000" - Dr. Austin Cyphersmith, Assistant Director of Research Instrumentation - Core Facilities Instrument: X5000 Austin's talk can be found here. |
March 27, 2024 |
"3D Data Analysis and Segmentation Tools" - Dr. Kingsley Boateng, Assistant Director of Bioscience Research & Microscopy - Core Facilities Instrument: Amira & Imaris Software Kingsley's talk can be found here. |
April 3, 2024 |
"Revolutions in Data" - Dan Davidson, Director of CNRG and Research Computing - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Dan's talk can be found here. |
April 10, 2024 | "A solid-liquid superposition model for interfacial solvation structures" - Qian Ai, Graduate Research Assistant - Materials Science & Engineering |
April 17, 2024 | "Introduction to BookitLab" - Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the Core Facilities |
April 24, 2024 |
"Introducing Spatial Transcriptomics to Core Facilities: A Custom Built MERFISH Microscope " - Duncan Nall, Research Scientist - Core Facilities Instrument: MERFISH |
May 1, 2024 | "Creating Art of Science" - Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology |
March 1, 2023 |
"An Introduction to the Zeiss LSM 900: With Super-resolution and Deconvolution Capability" - Dr. Austin Cyphersmith, Assistant Director of Research Instrumentation, Core Facilities at IGB Instrument: LSM 900 Austin's talk: https://youtu.be/95MB2DQW_BQ |
March 8, 2023 |
"Computer services at the IGB" - Dan Davidson, Director of Computer and Network Resource Group - IGB Topic: Computer Services Dan's talk: https://youtu.be/UHJ_EwEsC_Y |
March 22, 2023 |
"Keyence Microscope Demo" - Scott Waddle Instrument: Keyence Microscopes |
March 29, 2023 |
"Identification of structural model of mammalian meiotic synaptonemal complex with super-resolution scope (MINFLUX)" - Reza Rajabi Toustani, Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Instrument: Minflux |
April 5, 2023 |
"Crafting the Art of Science: a Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes" - Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager, IGB Topic: Art of Science Julia's talk: https://youtu.be/67atM0TjTWw |
April 12, 2023 | "Mechanics to microstructure: Image-based modeling of the extracellular matrix" - Callan Luetkemeyer, Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Grainger College of Engineering, MechSE |
April 19, 2023 |
"Single cell spatial transcriptomic analysis of adult honeybee phenotypes" - Alex Schrader, Chemistry Doctoral Candidate, Han Lab Instrument: Widefield Microscope |
September 20, 2023 |
"An Introduction to the Core Facilities" - Dr. Glenn Fried, Director of the IGB Core Facilities Instruments located in the Core Facilities can be found here. Glenn's talk: https://youtu.be/2ufeSdnoubM |
September 27, 2023 |
"Firing of in-vitro hippocampal neuronal network depends on the mechanical tension" - Md Saddam Hossain Joy, Graduate Teaching Assistant - Mechanical Science & Engineering Instrument: LSM 880 Md Saddam Hossain Joy's talk: https://youtu.be/TgGTQ7Wqfyc |
October 11, 2023 |
"Super-Resolution Imaging of AMPA Receptors in Brain Tissue" - Rohit Vaidya, Graduate Research Assistant - Physics Instrument: LSM 880 & Cryostat Rohit's talk: https://youtu.be/BGL0wWa7e7o |
October 25, 2023 |
"Biocluster: New Features and New Computing" - Daniel Davidson Topic: Biocluster Dan's talk: https://youtu.be/KFZXtwnsHQU
|
November 1, 2023 |
"Further Insights into Kinesin Motility Using MINFLUX: A Super-Resolution Nanoscopic Method (Kinesin Motility: Characterizing the Half-Steps and Backsteps)" - Devinda Pankaja Wijewardena, Grad. Research Asst. - Physics - Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Instrument: MINFLUX
|
November 8, 2023 |
"Volume Electron Microscopy: Concepts, Correlations and Computations" - Kedar Narayan, Ph.D - Senior Scientist, NIH Kedar's talk: https://youtu.be/4tSG_rh8oMg |
The Illinois Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center (CBC) and IGB’s integrated suite of next-gen instrumentation is available for users to conduct cutting-edge Omics analyses within the three-dimensional (3D) structural, compositional and formational history of any given sample.
Samples can be composed of tissues, cells, or a combination including biomineral deposits (e.g., bones, teeth, ectopic calcification). The IGB Core Facility provides 3D micro-CT x-ray structural scans at a resolution of 3-100 microns (depending on sample size, shape and composition), coupled with micron-scale Raman characterization of the mineralogical composition of embedded biomineral deposits. High-quality histology sections and petrographic thin sections can be strategically prepared and further interrogated using optical and electron microscopes available within the IGB Core Facility.
Analysis of these samples are done through the DNA Services, Cytometry and Microscopy to Omics (CMtO), and High Performance Computing Bioinformatics (HPCBio) facilities within the CBC, able to conduct cell cytometry analysis and sorting, 10X Genomics Visium CytAssist spatial transcriptomics and proteomics from total mRNA within original 3D tissue and biomineral structure (bridging histology and genomics), and 10X Genomics Chromium high-throughput or deep single cell RNA-Seq.