Biological Imaging Core

Director: Simon Watkins, PhD

A primary objective in the PCHPI is to elucidate structural and functional interactions that occur during the process of HIV infection. In particular, events that occur in living cells immediately after viral entry are a focus of the Center. CuttingÐedge, optical imaging approaches play an important role in these investigations; therefore, a biological imaging core is an integral component of the PCHPI. The Core is housed in the Center for Biologic Imaging (CBI), which is equipped to perform a continuum of optical methods including all types of microscopy essential to the PCHPI. Within the scope of PCHPI, the focus is highly sophisticated, live cell imaging for the purpose of tracking single particles.

Visit the website of the Center for biologic imaging at http://www.cbi.pitt.edu/