Lab Research Facilities

Proteomics Facility

Confocal Microscopy Facility

Microarray Facility

Electron Microscopy and Digital Imaging Laboratory

Molecular Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Facility (MEEG)

The Confocal Microscopy Facility

The Sullivan laboratory uses confocal microscopy to examine at the cellular level the effects of the bacteria Wolbachia  on reproductive mechanisms of the fruit fly D. melanogaster. In this image, DNA is labeled green, and Wolbachia are red.

UCSC maintains a shared confocal microscopy facility for use by the microbiology research community. The facility houses a Zeiss LSM5 Pascal Confocal Microscope System, providing outstanding optical resolution, as well as high speed scanning. UCSC investigators currently use this system to study neuronal receptor cellular localization, neuronal targeting, Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation, bacterial movement within animal organs, and immune cell interactions during immunological tolerance.

For more information regarding the facility, training, or scheduling use time, contact Professor Karen Ottemann or Dr. Jonathan Krupp.