Grand Opening of The Centre for Optophysiology

The Centre for Optophysiology is a new core facility jointly established by the University of Toronto, the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital and SickKids Hospital. Eight million dollars in CFI and ORF funding have been used to procure multiple state-of-the-art microscopy systems, including a dual multiphoton (MP) microscope with spatial light modulator, a Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscope for super resolution imaging and an in vivo MP microscope with Neurotar homecage for imaging awake mice. The Centre is located at two sites that are <500 m apart in the heart of Toronto’s Discovery District: the Physiology Department at the University of Toronto; and The Centre for Phenogenomics, a CFI-funded national facility for creating, housing, and testing mouse models. The equipment can be used to image preparations ranging from cultured cells or tissue slices to whole animals and can be used in combination with electrophysiology. The Centre is open to researchers not only from the collaborating institutions, but also from the wider Toronto area.

Please join us for the Grand Opening of the most modern and sophisticated real-time imaging facility in the Faculty. Speakers include Drs. Scott Heximer, Graham Collingridge and Thomas Sanderson.
Date: Friday, December 1, 2023;
Location: MS3227 / MS3231;
Time: 3:00-5:00pm;
RSVP: physiology.admin@utoronto.ca
Tours: t.sanderson@utoronto.ca