Auditory & Vestibular Technology Core Fee Schedule

Existing Functional Equipment in the Auditory & Vestibular Technology Core

All users of the Core should be submitting requests after signing the Auditory & Vestibular Technology Core Terms of Use Agreement, and booking projects via the reservations system.

View our fee schedule for internal investigators below. If you are an external investigator/company wishing to use any of the facilities or services provided by the AVT Core, please contact a member of the core facility staff to discuss our external user rates.

Mass Spectrometry instruments assisted rate includes (but is not limited to) the following:
1. Method Development (including background research, literature searching and method optimization)
2. Sample Preparation
3. Data Analysis (outside of instrument booking window)

Instrument	Location	Description	Assisted Rate	Unassisted Rate/Hour
Mass Spectrometry Instruments
Thermo Q Exactive Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap	Criss II, Lab 303	Compound identification by direct infusion (MS and MS/MS)	$40/sample
		Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS and LC-MS/MS)	$40/hour	$20/hour
Bruker ultrafleXtreme MALDI-TOF/TOF	Criss II, Lab 303	Compound Identification/Confirmation	$40/sample	$20/sample
		Tissue Imaging	$40/sample	$20/sample
Xcalibur Software: Proteome Discoverer, Tracefinder 4.1 and Compound Discoverer 3.0		Use of Mass Spec software offline, for processing raw data	$40/hour	$5/hour

Electrophysiology and Molecular Biology Cores
TDT RZ6	Room 331	ABR and DPOAE	$40/animal	$10/animal
Axon200B and Digidata	Room 331	EP	$40/animal	$10/animal
Axon200B and Digidata	Room 331	Zebrafish Microphonic Response	$40/animal	$10/animal
Invitrogen Qubit Flex Fluorometer	Criss I, 211	For accurate quantitaion of DNA, RNA, and protein	$10/Per Use
Bio-Rad ChemiDoc MP Imaging System	Criss I, 211	For imaging and analyzing gels and western blots	$20/Per Use
10x Genomics	Rooms 431 and 225	Single-cell RNA-seq and RNAscope		$50/hr

Advanced Imaging Core Instruments
Zeiss LSM 980 Inverted Microscope	Criss II, Room 312	Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope with Airyscan	$50/hr	$35/hr
Zeiss LSM 700 Inverted Microscope	Criss I, Room 407	Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope	$40/hr	$25/hr
Zeiss LSM 700 Upright Microscope	Criss I, Room 407	Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope	$40/hr	$25/hr
Zeiss LSM 710 Upright Microscope	Criss I, Room 407	Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope	$40/hr	$25/hr
Zeiss PALM	Criss I, Room 332	PALM CombiSystem with micromanipulation and microdissection tools	$40/hr	$25/hr
Zeiss Epifluorescence Microscope	Criss I, Room 407	Widefield imaging in fluorescence or brightfield	$40/hr	Free
Imaris BT and Imaris XBT Workstations	Criss I, Room 407	Software for analysis and processing of microscopy images	$40/hr	$5/hr
Nikon Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope	Criss II, Room 324	Confocal microscope capable of real time, live cell, and DIC imaging	$40/hr	$25/hr
Leica Confocal Microscope	Criss II, Room 325	Confocal microscope capable of multiphoton, near-IR, and live animal imaging	$40/hr	$25/hr
Olympus TIRF	Criss II, Room, 326C	Total internal Reflection Microscope with 4 laser lines	$40/hr	$25/hr
Nikon Inverted Fluorescence Microscope	Criss II, Room 324	Widefield imaging in flurescence or brightfield	$40/hr	Free
Molecular Devices ImageXpress Micro4	Criss III, Room 382A	High-throughput widefield imaging in fluorescence or brightfield	$40/hr	Inquire
Nikon NIS Elements	Criss III, Room 382A	Software for analysis and processing of microscopy images	$40/hr	$5/hr
Volocity Image Analysis	Inquire	Software for analysis and processing of microscopy images	$40/hr	$5/hr