QB3 Cell and Tissue Analysis Facility (CTAF)Berkeley RIC

The Cell and Tissue Analysis Facility (CTAF) provides the cell culture equipment and high-end instrumentation needed to grow and assess mammalian cells, tissues, proteins, and more from flow cytometry to multiplex ELISA to automated epifluorescence, confocal, and multiphoton imaging.

Instruments include:

• Cell Culturing Facility for Mammalian Cell Culture with Biospherix Hypoxia Chambers
• Automated Epifluorescence/Live Imaging Microscopy and Analysis Workstation; ImageXpress Micro, Molecular Devices
• Lionheart FX/Live Imaging, Agilent/Biotek
• Multiphoton Photon Microscopy; Bruker/Prairie Technologies
• Confocal Microscopy, Bruker/Prairie Technologies
• SpectraMax M5 MultiMode Plate Reader, Molecular Devices
• Bio-Plex MAGPIX Multiplex Reader, BioRad
• Flow Cytometry; Attune NxT Acoustic Focusing Cytometer blue/red/violet/yellow, ThermoFisher
• CFX Connect qPCR, Thermal Cycler, and GenePulser Xcell Electroporator, BioRad
• Histology Suite with Cryostar NX50 cryostat, HM 430 Freezing Stage Sliding Microtome, and Paraffin Embedding (FFPE) and Sectioning, ThermoFisher 

This facility was formerly titled the QB3 Shared Stem Cell Facility.