About the Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology

he modern Health SciencesCenter campus is located in downtown Louisville. The center includes the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, and Allied Health, along with the University Hospital, Brown Cancer Center, and affiliated hospitals and health-care units. The department is located in the Health Sciences Center of the University. Research facilities are available for high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy; X-ray microanalysis; optical imaging, including four-channel confocal microscopy with Nomarski differential interference, and fluorescence; immunocytochemistry; radioimmunoassay; electrophoresis; cell and organelle isolation; and other techniques of modern cell biology. (See this month's Gallery of Photos) The analytical microscope laboratory houses seven Philips electron microscopes capable of transmission, scanning, and freeze-fracture electron microscopy; a variety of ultramicrotomy instruments, including some with cryosectioning capability; and a Life Cell cryogenic and molecular distillation apparatus. An instrumentation laboratory within the department contains state-of-the-art preparative and high-speed ultracentrifuges, a lyophilizer, spectrophotometers, high-performance liquid chromatography systems, spectrodensitometers, and beta and gamma isotope counters, and a gel scanner. A core molecular biology in situ hybridization cell and tissue culture laboratory is also available.
 here is extensive computer networking within the University, and all faculty laboratories in the department are equipped with microcomputers as components of this system. A computerized graphics facility and image analysis instrumentation are housed in the department, as well as a laboratory devoted to in situ hybridization procedures. General support for the Health Sciences Center includes the Kornhouser Medical Library; the Research Resources Center, which includes a fully accredited animal-care facility; biomedical illustration and audiovisual units; the Computing and Telecommunications Center; and an amino acid analysis and peptide synthesis facility.