Access and Use of Equipment

Use of the Histology Core Facility equipment is free of charge for members of the Department of Biomedicine (DBM).

Access to all equipment is restricted to trained and authorized users. Training must be completed before independent use is permitted.

All instruments must be reserved in advance via the IRIS reservation system.

External collaborators may be granted access to the facility by prior arrangement, subject to specific agreements and temporary authorization.

Please use the link to the IRIS booking page below to reserve an instrument or to request user training.

Automated Histological Staining Service (Gemini)

Since April 2021, the Histology Core Facility has offered an automated staining service for H&E, Safranin-O, PAS, and Picrosirius Red. Simply submit your slides, and our team will take care of the entire staining process.

This service is free of charge for Department of Biomedicine (DBM) users.

Access and Booking

To access this service, please reserve the “Gemini” service via IRIS. Reservations are available in one-hour time slots on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, during the following times:

• 08:00–12:00
• 14:00–15:00

A maximum of 50 slides per one-hour slot may be submitted.

All service requests must be approved by facility staff before slides can be delivered. In rare cases, if the number of submitted slides exceeds the facility’s processing capacity for a given day, the request may be declined. In such instances, users will be contacted and asked to book an alternative slot for the next available service run.

Slide Submission and Collection

Slides must be delivered one day prior to the scheduled service in a slide box clearly labeled with:

• Name
• Research group
• Contact details (phone number)
• Requested staining type

Slides will be stained and mounted and can be collected on Wednesday or Friday, respectively.

Acknowledgment and Authorship Guidelines

Personnel in core facilities provide essential services to researchers, and it is important to appropriately recognize their contributions to the scientific advancement of research projects. The most suitable form of recognition may vary between projects, depending on the nature and extent of the contribution provided by core facility staff.

The Histology Core Facility follows the authorship and acknowledgment guidelines outlined by Angeletti et al., 1999 (FASEB Journal, 13:595) as a reference framework for recognizing our work:

“Intellectual interactions between resource and research scientists are essential to the success of each project. When this success results in publication, a citation in the acknowledgments section of a manuscript may be appropriate for routine analysis. However, contributions from resource scientists that involve novel resource laboratory work and insight, experimental design, or advanced data analysis that make a publication possible or significantly enhance its value require co-authorship as the appropriate acknowledgment.”

For routine support and services, we kindly ask users to acknowledge the Histology Core Facility staff in their publications using the following sentence:

“We thank the members of the DBM Histology Core Facility for their support and/or the execution of the experiments.”

For additional guidance on acknowledging core facility contributions, please refer to the resources listed below.

References

• ABRF Authorship Guidelines
• University of Pennsylvania: Acknowledging Core Facilities in Research Publications
• Angeletti et al., 1999, FASEB Journal, 13:595