Instrument Rates

New instrument rates as of July 1, 2025:

Microscope   

Internal Yale ($/hr)
MINFLUX   -   Abberior 60
STEDYCON/Spinning Disk Confocal   -   Abberior/Nikon 44
Laser Scanning Confocal   -   Leica Stellaris 8 44
Laser Scanning Confocal   -   Leica SP8 36
Andor Spinning Disk Confocal - BC43 39
Blaze Light Sheet   -   Miltenyi 45
Laser Microdissection System   -   Leica LMD7000 27
Widefield   -   Leica Thunder Imager 3D Tissue 26
Widefield   -   Leica DMi8 21
Optical Tweezers   27
Atomic Force   -   Asylum Research Cypher ES 22
IMARIS Image Analysis Workstation 6

Free training for all users.

The Leica DMi8, Leica Thunder, and Leica LMD are charged per actual time used, the Abberior MINFLUX, Abberior/Nikon STEDYCON/SDC, Leica Stellaris 8, Leica SP8, Andor BC43, Miltenyi Blaze, AFM and the Imaris workstation are charged as ‘earlier of resereved or actual start’ until ‘later of reserved or actual end’. MINFLUX users must enlist an advanced imaging scientist of the WCIC to perform experiments on the instrument. Billing is no longer capped. 

Other equipment in the Imaging Core (use free of charge): 

  • Inverted Fluorescence Microscope Leica DMIL LED
  • Stereo Microscope Leica M125

Available software on the Imaging Core workstations (Rm 006):