CMIF News

Feb 22, 2023

New advanced microscope workstations are available at our Centennial Campus location in the Plant Science Building

The new CMIF headquarters is officially open for all our current and future customers on Centennial Campus. The address is: 840 Oval Drive Raleigh NC, 27606, Suite 2170. This is… 

Mar 18, 2020

Reduced CMIF operation during coronavirus pandemic

CMIF is operating with significant service reductions. For your safety and ours we need you to strictly adhere to the CDC and NC State safety rules as posted. We are currently… 

Mar 26, 2019

Imaris Open Analysis Day April 5th, 2019 10 am – 5 pm

CMIF is hosting an Imaris Open Data Analysis Day with Dr. James Shaw (BITPLANE, South East Regional Sales Engineer) on Friday, April 5th, 2019. Agenda: 10:00 am – 11:30 am… 

Mar 26, 2019

Nina Strömgren Allen Plant Biology Graduate Student Research Endowment

Did you know that Dr. Nina Strömgren Allen, eminent cell biologist and previous director of CMIF, has established a Plant Biology Graduate Student Research Endowment in cooperation with the Department… 

Aug 29, 2017

New equipment reservation procedure in effect

In an effort to better serve our customers, CMIF has switched to an online Lab Management system for equipment reservations, training requests, and billing. This replaces our “faces” reservation system.… 

Apr 21, 2017

Exciting addition to CMIF: Zeiss LSM 880 with Airyscan is ready for action

We are excited to announce the acquisition of a new state of the art Zeiss LSM 880 laser scanning confocal microscope with Airyscan to CMIF. This purchase was made possible… 

Oct 27, 2016

Seminar announcement: Stefano Di Talia

Please join us for the next “Allen Distinguished Microscopy” seminar by Stefano Di Talia on Nov. 9, 2016 at 3 pm in the Stephens room (3503 Thomas Hall). Click here… 

Oct 3, 2016

Seminar announcement: Enrico Gratton

Please join us for the next “Allen Distinguished Microscopy” seminar by Enrico Gratton on Oct. 14, 2016 at 1 pm in the Stephens room (3503 Thomas Hall). Click here for… 

Aug 2, 2016

NCSU research image contest winners annouced

The winners of this year’s NC State research image/video contest just got announced and entries taken on our microscopes won top prizes!!! Congratulations to Tyler Allen for winning first price in the… 

Jul 20, 2016

A new way for therapeutic stem cells to exit the bloodstream

Tyler Allen, a graduate student in Dr. Ke Cheng’s laboratory at the Department of Biomedical Sciences discovered that stem cells can be actively expelled from the bloodstream by epithelial cells in…