Carolina Microscopy

Carolina Microscopy

On April 13, 2026, Carolina Microscopy launches as a unified core encompassing the four existing imaging cores located across campus, bringing their light microscopy (LM), electron microscopy (EM) and image analysis (IA) equipment and expertise under one administrative unit. Individual locations, equipment and staff remain unchanged. New, uniform rates will be linked below. Stay tuned to this site as we assemble unified policies and information. Until then, see the individual location sites for more details.

New Users: Until April 1, please choose one of the units below and the location Director will ensure you get the resources you need. 

Image of a pollen grain captured with fluorescence through a microscope. The ball-shaped pollen has spikes coming out of it in a pattern similar to the dimples on a golf ball.

Biology
Microscopy
Core
(LM,IA)
Fluorescence image of a cell through a microscope. Different colored squiggles, blobs and dots on a black background represent six separate organelles within the cell.

Hooker
Imaging
Core
(LM, IA, EM)
Scanning electron microscope image of a tardigrade, or water bear.

Microscopy
Services
Laboratory
(LM, IA, EM)
Image from a fluorescence microscope of a neuron with lots of branched appendages.

Neuroscience
Microscopy
Core
(LM, IA)

Unified Rates Coming Soon

We are grateful for the generous support of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA016086, College of Arts and Sciences, and NIH-NICHD Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center Support Grant P50 HD103573 for general operations. Instrumentation grants from the NC Biotechnology Center and NIH are indicated on the respective instrumentsโ€™ webpages.