Overview
The Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Core Facility (BPHO) provides cutting-edge imaging and analysis tools, along with technical and collaborative support for advanced light and electron microscopy of biological systems. Users have access to instrumentation for confocal microscopy (both fixed and live cells), high-throughput imaging assays, high-resolution imaging of live cell and tissue dynamics, super-resolution microscopy, large 3D volume imaging of tissues, electron microscopy analysis of subcellular morphology and protein distribution, and automated computational image processing, visualization, and analysis.
National Cancer Institute
National Institute of Aging
Henry L. Guenther Foundation and the Waitt Foundation
For submitting manuscripts that have made use of services or resources from this core, PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE SUPPORT by inclusion of the following information:
“This work was supported by the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Core Facility of the Salk Institute (RRID:SCR_014838) with funding from NIH-NCI CCSG P30 CA014195, NIH-NIA San Diego Nathan Shock Center P30 AG068635, The Henry L. Guenther Foundation and the Waitt Foundation.”
Core Personnel: Daniela Boassa, Sammy Weiser-Novak, Elsie Quansah
Please acknowledge core staff where appropriate and consider authorship inclusion when scientific contributions merit.
Please link each publication stemming from work performed in the core to your MyNCBI account. This will ensure that the contributions from NIH are appropriately acknowledged in renewal and continuation applications. This NIH requirement must be satisfied as part of our efforts to provide consistent access to stabling funded core resources. Information on how to link publications can be found here»
10010 N Torrey Pines Rd
La Jolla, CA 92037
Telephone: (858) 453-4100
For general BPHO Core issues including invoicing, billing or external access requests, please email bpho@salk.edu.
