Staff:

Calvin P.H. Vary, PhD
Core Director
(207) 885-8148
varyc@mmc.org

Igor Prudovsky, Ph.D
Co-Director
(207) 885-8146
prudoi@mmc.org

Overview:

The purpose of the Southern Maine Regional Confocal Microscopy Facility is to provide interested biomedical researchers in Southern Maine with access to modern methods of confocal microscopy, which allows the identification of the spatial localization of specific biological macromolecules in all types of animal and plant cells.

SMRCMF was established in 1999 in the Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM) of the Maine Medical Center Research Institute and is supervised by Drs. Igor Prudovsky and Cal Vary.

The establishment of SMRCMF was made possible with a grant from the Maine Science and Technology Foundation which was matched by Maine Medical Center. Other grant participants included the University of Southern Maine and IDEXX Laboratories.

Service Requests:

Service forms must be filled out completely with as much detailed information as possible.  The completed form must include the signature and account number of the Principal Investigator of the lab requesting services.  Completed forms should be submitted to Kristin Riley (Vary Lab).

This Core is supported by the COBRE Program of the National Center for Research Resources.