Nanoimaging core facility open house today

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 campus is invited to an open house today at the newly-established Nanoimaging Core Facilty, which features microscopes strong enough to make the body of a single cell look “like an ocean.”

The open house will be from 2 to 4 p.m. in the College of Pharmacy, Rooms 1016, 1019 and 1019A.

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.

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.

All researchers, especially those interested in nanomedicine, are encouraged to attend the open house.