Hourly rates and fees for FY 22-23

These rates will take effect on April 1, 2023.

Microscope Assisted Unassisted — Peak Hours Unassisted — Off-peak Hours
All laser-scanning confocals (except Zeiss LSM 710) $115/hour $50/hour $30/hour
Zeiss LSM 710 $104/hour $39/hour $23.40/hour
Yokogawa spinning disk confocal $104/hour $39/hour $23.40/hour
VT-iSIM & Crest spinning disk confocal $112/hour $47/hour $28.20/hour
Zeiss Lightsheet Z.1 $112/hour $47/hour $28.20/hour
Zeiss  Observer 7 Widefield $90/hour $25/hour $25/hour
EVOS FL Auto 2 $84/hour $19hour $19/hour

Leica Widefield

$78.50/hour $13.50/hour $13.50/hour

Peak hours are from 8 am - 8 pm Monday - Friday.

Cancellation Policy: Users may cancel their own reservations up to 2 hours prior to the scheduled start time. If you need to cancel after that, email or call Andrea or Jasmine as soon as possible.

Training: See this page for details on training procedures and fees for our various light microscopes.

Special rate: For sessions longer than 12 hours in duration, the first 12 hours will be charged at the regular rate (peak or off/peak); additional hours are charged at a 50% discounted rate.

Non-academic, external customers (excluding CHOP and Wistar researchers) are subject to an additional 63% surcharge on top of the above rates.

Service Description Fee
Standard Sample Preparation Fix, dehydrate, chemical dry, mount on stubs, Au-Pd sputter-coat, per 6 samples $392
Assisted Imaging Image acquisition on FEI Quanta 250 in EMRL $121/hour
Unassisted Imaging For trained users only; 60% discount for off-peak hours $56/hour

Non-standard sample preparation not covered by the above description is charged according to the staff time required, at our staff time rate of $65/hour.

Contact Yuri Veklich for advice on sample preparation or to arrange for sample preparation services

Note: Non-academic, external customers (excluding CHOP and Wistar researchers) are subject to an additional 63% surcharge on top of the above rates.

To pay for service maintenance fees and technical support, we charge users $9.00/hour to use our Imaris or Huygens workstations. Time on a workstation may be reserved using the Microscopy Core Scheduler.  Unlike our microscopes, we use activity-monitoring software called Calpendo to monitor *actual* workstation usage.  This software also controls access to Imaris, Huygens, and MATLAB so users require a Calpendo login AND an active Microscopy Core Scheduler account to use these computers.