University of Lausanne - The Cellular Imaging Core

The Cellular Imaging Facility (CIF) was created in 2003 to assist researchers with imaging needs ranging from wide-field fluorescence and transmission optical microscopy, confocal microscopy, time-lapse and ion imaging, to digital image processing and analysis. Since the end of 2005, the CIF has extended its activities on the Dorigny campus.

The CIF is organized around three complementary activities:

• Service activities : Investigators of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine and associated institutions are offered access to a panel of state-of-the-art imaging equipment and techniques.

• Training : The CIF shares and diffuses the practical and theoretical know-how on these approaches through teaching and training. A series of lectures on cellular imaging are being given yearly. Practical training on the instruments are provided in the form of short "hands-on" courses, even individual, throughout the year, and workshops on various aspects of imaging organized for pre- and post-graduate students.

• Research : Technological Development . In parallel to service activities, a consortium of investigators affiliated with the CIF will develop and implement most advanced optical and imaging technologies. This unit will have an open and dynamic interface with the service, so that emerging technological developments will be implemented and rendered accessible to more users of the CIF.