Fee Schedule
The Fee Schedule For Any Of The Microscopes Is As Follows For Trained Independant User For Instrument Use:
Billed As Time In Facility
Table 1: Billing Rates for CASM Services and Equipment Usage, 1 June 2016
Sample Preparation (1.) | Cost per unit |
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Microtome and Sectioning |
$10.00 per hour |
Paraffin Embedding |
$45.00 per run |
Critical Point and Freeze Drying |
$55.00 per day ($5.50 per hour) |
Sputter & Evaporative Coating |
$20.00 per run |
Plasma Cleaning |
$25.00 per run |
Electron and Ion Microscopy |
|
Hitachi Instruments |
|
S-3400 |
$17.50 per hour |
S-5000 |
$22.00 per hour |
S-4300 |
$35.00 per hour |
H-8100 |
$35.00 per hour |
Zeiss Crossbeam 540 |
|
Electron Microscopy |
$55.00 per hour |
Automated Mapping & Data Processing |
$25.00 per hour |
Focused Ion Beam Microscopy and Milling |
$145.00 per hour |
Optical Microscopy, Cell Sorting and Cytometry |
|
Cell Sorting (1. 2.) |
$80.00 per hour |
Cell Analysis (1. 2.) |
$40.00 per hour |
Confocal Microscope (3.) |
$25.00 per hour |
Spinning Disc Confocal Microscope(3.) |
$55.00 per hour |
Epifluorescence Microscope (3.) |
$15.00 per hour |
Other Services |
|
Laboratory and Bench Fee (1. 4.) |
$15.00 per day |
Application Scientist Fee |
$36.00 per hour |
Cleaning Fee (5.) |
$15.00 |
Notes:
1. Cost includes general laboratory consumables and chemicals (e.g. gloves, solvents, standard buffer solutions etc). Specialty chemicals, special purchases, and one-time use items should be purchased by user groups. CASM will undertake the purchase of items if requested on a cost + 15% basis.
2. Cost of BD FACS ARIA Cytometer includes Technician time and service.
3. Includes access to CASM computing cluster with suite of image analysis software, including MetaMorph and FlowJo.
4. CASM maintains a variety of standard laboratory equipment and bench-space that is available to researchers who wish to conduct experimental work beyond the scope of personal laboratories.
5. CASM scientists are not responsible for cleaning and tidying up after users. If facilities and instrumentation are left in a condition other than how they were found, a charge will be levied for time spent tidying up.
Table 2: Corporate Users Billing Rates for CASM Services and Equipment Usage, 1 June 2016
Instrument | Cost per Unit |
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Crossbeam SEM |
$171.00 per hour |
H-8100 & S4300 SEM |
$66.00 per hour |
Sample preparation |
$63.00 per run* |
Tech time |
$57.00 per hour |
Notes: * - Includes Tech time.
College of Arts and Sciences Microscopy
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