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Lyudmila Shlyakhtenko, Ph.D., co-director of the new nanoimaging core facility, displays the MFP-3D AFM Microscope from Asylum Research mounted on Inverted Optical Microscope from Olympus. |
The facility was organized by Yuri Lyubchenko, Ph.D., D.Sc., professor in the department of pharmaceutical sciences and evolved out of his programs on development of early diagnostic and treatment nanotools for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. His research will continue to benefit from the use of this facility.
Recent grants from National Institutes of Health (NIH), the UNMC Program of Excellence (POE) and Nebraska Research Initiative (NRI), have allowed for equipment and staff upgrades, which made it possible to make the laboratory a full-fledged core facility.
“What the staff are able to image at the molecular level with this equipment continues to amaze me,” said Dennis Robinson, Ph.D., chairman of the department of pharmaceutical sciences. “Dr. Lyubchenko and his nanoimaging team are among the best in the world.”
An open house for the facility, which is in Rooms 1016, 1019 and 1019A in the College of Pharmacy, will be Wednesday, Nov. 28 from 2 to 4 p.m.
The facility features a state-of-the-the-art atomic force microscope mounted on an inverted fluorescence microscope, which allows simultaneous detection of fluorescently labeled samples and high resolution AFM images.
Lyudmila Shlyakhtenko, Ph.D., co-director of the facility, said researchers wishing to use the facility can now receive training on the equipment or have one of the lab’s
technicians create images for them.
UNMC researchers interested in nanomedicine should attend the open house to see how the facility’s staff and equipment can benefit their work, said Paula Turpen, Ph.D., UNMC’s director of research resources.
“Nanomedicine is a growing field of research,” Dr. Turpen said. “The nanoimaging core facility provides UNMC researchers with powerful resources that aren’t found at many institutions around the country.”
To learn more about the facility, visit http://www.unmc.edu/dept/pharmacy/nanoimaging/index.cfm?L1_ID=1&CONREF=1.