User Rates for Fiscal Year 2012
(July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012)
Developing eye disc, with photoreceptors and axons labeled in green and glial cells labeled in red.
A Z-stack of images was collected using a Zeiss LSM 510 confocal microscope and 3-D reconstruction was performed using the Imaris software from Bitplane,
allowing the structure to be viewed from different angles.
Ho Ryun Chung, Alison North and Ulrike Gaul (Rockefeller University)
The current charges are outlined below. These charges are necessary in order to pay for the service contracts and to keep the equipment and the facility in good working order. We encourage all heads of laboratories who are planning to use the center to incorporate some microscope costs into their next grant applications.
We have recently had to introduce training fees to cover the cost of staff time during the increasing number of initial training sessions. However, there is no charge for consultation or advice, as we are of the strong opinion that everybody should be trained extensively in order to ensure the best possible results. Users will not be charged for microscope or workstation time when the instruments are non-functional. Under these conditions, please e-mail us at birc@rockefeller.edu to have the corresponding charges cancelled.
After creating an account, users are provided with more detailed information concerning the BIRC booking and cancellation policies and charges.
Internal Rates:
User fees are used to offset the cost of service contracts, consumables and Center staff, all of which are needed to keep the equipment and the facility in good working order. We encourage all researchers who are planning to use the Center to include funds for use of the microscopes and support from Center staff in the budgets of their grant applications. Rates for Rockefeller University users:
- OMX 3D-SIM super-resolution system: $50.00 per hour
- Nikon STORM/TIRF/FLIM microscope: $50.00 per hour
- Olympus multiphoton microscope: $44.00 per hour
- Zeiss multiphoton microscope: $42.00 per hour
- Zeiss confocal microscopes: $42.00 per hour
- Spinning disk confocal microscope: $40.00 per hour
- DeltaVision: $34.00 per hour
- Olympus IX71/DSU: $21.00 per hour
- Olympus VivaView: $22.00 per hour
- Zeiss Axioplan: $18.00 per hour
- MMI laser microdissection: $18.00 per hour
- Tissue culture/dissection microscopes: no charge
- Workstations: $7.00 per hour
- Staff assistance: $31 per hour*
Microscope rates are reduced to 25% of the above for long-term time-lapse experiments, according to instrument demand. The reduced rate applies once a user has been logged on to any system for 8 hours of continuous use, and applies for the rest of that session, as long as they remain logged on.
*Staff assistance, whether during training or in an assisted use microscope session, is in addition to the user fees for time on the microscope or workstation.
Rates for External Users:
Rates for external users are twice those shown above for internal Rockefeller users, except for instruments that are locally unique to the Rockefeller University such as the DeltaVisions, the OMX and the STORM system. These are charged at the internal rate.
Researchers from non-profit organizations are encouraged to use the center. Access is based on capacity and cannot be guaranteed.
