Seeing is believing! The Westmead Imaging Facility, which is part of the Westmead Research Hub (WRH) Core Facilities, enables visualisation at the cellular and subcellular level of the fundamental mechanisms of human disease and informs innovations in diagnostics and therapy.
The Westmead Imaging Facility, hosted at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR), serves members of the WRH and is also open to external researchers or industrial users on the basis of a User Contribution Scheme. Our users are undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate degrees or are established researchers working at the cutting edge of bio-medicine.
We provide state-of-the-art light microscopy instrumentation and expertise through training, technical support, methodological advice, experimental design and project collaboration.
Our services
Access to and training in:
Light microscopy
Experimental design
Data acquisition and analysis
Laser capture microdissection
Access to a High Pressure Freezing Service
Our key technologies
The Westmead Imaging Facility offers:
Standard widefield brightfield and fluorescence imaging (single-field images of histological and fluorescent labelling)
Widefield deconvolution microscopy (Deltavision)
Laser scanning confocal microscopy (Olympus FV 1000 and Leica SP5)
Live cell imaging (widefield, Deltavison, confocal, Nanoimager)
Laser capture microdissection (isolation of cells for downstream proteomics and genomics)
Super resolution techniques (single molecule localisation, TIRF, HILO)
In addition, the staff can also assist you with scanning stage microscopes including:
