Welcome to the Nikon Imaging Center at UC San Diego
The Nikon Imaging Center is a light microscopy core facility which serves UC San Diego and beyond. We host eleven state-of-the-art multi-functional imaging systems. Together, they offer the following imaging modalities: brightfield, color, differential interference contrast (DIC), widefield fluorescence imaging, point scanning confocal imaging, micropatterning, photo activation and stimulation, spinning disk confocal imaging, total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) imaging, spectral imaging, Super Resolution microscopy including stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), structured illumination microscopy (SIM), NSPARC, and Image Scanning Microscopy (ISM).
In 2023/2024, the NIC supported over 150 laboratories and 400 researchers across 25 departments at the University of California San Diego including the School of Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jacob School of Engineering, School of Physical Sciences, and leading biotechnology companies in San Diego and beyond.
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