User Policy The facility instruments are available only to trained users. Please contact us for scheduling training sessions. Each new user is entitled for two 2-hours training sessions (free of cost) for each instrument.

Billing Policy 

• $15/hour for users working with PIs that are: NINDS-funded investigators
• $25/hour for users working with PIs that are: Neuroscience Program Members, or participants in recent Shared Instrumentation Grants that are supplying the core with new microscopes (3I-Spinning Disc, STED, CARS, spectral/FLM lsm780)
• $40/hour for all other University Users
• $90/hour for all others
• Also notice the overnight 9hr time slots and weekend time 7.5hrs (AM or PM) slots are available for long lapse experiments. We don't charge by hour for these long time slots, we charge by the booked time slot. The rates are:
1. $10/hour for users working with PIs that are: NINDS-funded investigators
2. $15/hour for users working with PIs that are: Neuroscience Program Members, or participants in recent Shared Instrumentation Grants that are supplying the core with new microscopes (3I-Spinning Disc, STED, CARS, spectral/FLM lsm780)
3. $20/hour for all other University Users

Booking Policy  for Mon-Fri 6am-9pm One user can NOT book more than 5 hours (10 slots) per day and it has to be either before 1pm or after 1pm (it can NOT be in the middle of the day crossing 1pm mark). One user can NOT book more than 3 days a week. One user can NOT book more than 2 consecutive days of 5 hours a day.

Cancellation Policy Users canceling reservations less than twenty-four hours in advance will be billed for at least one hour, up to the entire duration of the reservation if nobody else takes that time instead.

Equipment Policy Users may not add or modify computer hardware or software or microscope equipment. Please contact us if you have specific needs that can be accommodated.

By reserving microscope time you acknowledge and agree to the policies above. Violation may result in microscope access being revoked and/or billing for repair costs.