Microscopy Imaging Laboratory

Equipment & Services

The Microscopy Imaging Laboratory (MIL) is a core imaging service in the Faculty of Medicine providing electron microscopy and fluorescence microscopy imaging capabilities to students and scientists in basic, medical and industrial research. The MIL maintains a complete lab for the preparation of TEM and SEM samples including fixation, resin embedding, thin sectioning, critical point drying and gold sputter coating. The thin sectioning lab is equipped with an RMC MT7000 and two Reichert Ultracut E ultra-microtomes.A server/workstation lab is equipped with BitPlane, AutoQuant and Zen image analysis software. Operation of the unit is on a fee for service basis. Users can take advantage of full service (all work carried out by staff in the unit) or may be trained to use the equipment themselves on an hourly or annual contract fee basis. For more information, please visit our Contact page.

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Electron Microscopy

• Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)     Imaged on the Spinning Disk Confocal
• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

Fluorescence Microscopy

• LSM 880 Elyra Super-resolution Confocal
• Spinning Disk Confocal
• Apotome Live Cell System
• AxioScan Slide Scanner
• LSM 510 Confocal
• IHC Fluorescence Axio Scope A1 
• Workstation 

Microscopy Imaging Laboratory Rates

In order to maintain our high quality of service while also increasing capacity as our technology continues to advance, MIL has instituted an annual lab membership fee of $500 per year, per laboratory beginning fiscal year 2018-19 (May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019). The fee will be automatically added in the first month for which a lab has usage.

• Faculty of Medicine users                                                                                     
• U of T users outside the Faculty
• External users

MIL User Information forms

• U of T user form
• External user form

Equipment Booking

MIL Equipment Reservation Calendar

Cancellation Policy

Users can cancel time slots up to 1 hour before scheduled usage. There will be an administrative charge of the instrument rate per hour booked if your slot is not used and not cancelled within 1 hour.

Location

Medical Sciences Building, Room 1239
1 King's College Circle, Room 1239
Toronto, ON M5S 1A8

Questions?

Contact MIL