Special notice: For important updates about COVID-19 and its impact on CNSI facilities, please visit our COVID-19 guidance page.
Technology Center COVID-19 Update:
General building guidelines:
Updated – June 2021
Operating hours
- The CNSI building is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days per week for approved activities.
- Check with individual areas (Tech Centers, Magnify, etc.) for specific operating hours.
Building Entry
- A daily self-monitoring health survey is required to enter campus and the CNSI building. This requirement includes faculty, staff, researchers, students, UCLA-affiliated visitors and non-affiliated visitors (such as vendors, repair personnel, etc.) as described here. The section entitled “Symptom Monitoring Survey” provides guidance for individual situations.
- Face coverings are required on campus. Visitors to CNSI should be bring their own masks.
- Research areas, Technology Centers and Magnify will provide their own research-specific PPE.
- Verification of self- monitoring through campus web portal may be requested.
- Individuals unable to verify symptom monitoring (by producing a response email from the web portal) or appears to be symptomatic, will be asked to leave the building.
- Failure to follow all campus and CNSI policies may result in denial of access to the building.
For questions related to the CNSI Technology Centers, contact techcenters@cnsi.ucla.edu.
For important updates about COVID-19 and its impact on CNSI facilities, please visit our COVID-19 guidance page.
The CNSI Technology Centers provide unrestricted access to fully integrated R&D infrastructure, professional support and collaborative research opportunities in the fabrication, characterization and screening of nanomaterials, systems, and devices. Directed by a group of leading scientists, the Centers develop technologies that promote discovery through direct grant support, user proposals and industrial partnerships. Access to these facilities is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for students, postdocs, staff, faculty and industrial scientists, and is managed through the CNSI Laboratory Management System (CLMS).
The Technology Centers also offer educational opportunities for the general public as well as non-expert academic and industrial communities in the form of tutorials, symposia and hands-on workshops.
Technology Center News and Events
November 4, 2021 | Advanced 3D cell imager added to CNSI’s light microscopy resources
The Leica THUNDER Imager. The instrument removes out-of-focus light in real time, offering the best quality widefield images possible for studying live cells, cell cultures, tissue samples, stem cells, spheroids, organoids and more. The THUNDER Imager is available for use at the Advanced Light Microscopy and Spectroscopy Lab, an open-access Technology Center in the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.
June 24, 2021 | Next-gen electron source boosts resolution for atomic imaging
UCLA investigators can now reap the benefits of increased brightness and sharpness with the FEI Titan extreme field emission gun (X-FEG), a next-generation instrument that holds the promise for higher resolution, all without making the optical system more...
December 7, 2020 | New electron-detecting camera speeds up bio-imaging
A recent addition to instrumentation at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA offers researchers an enhanced atomic-level view of frozen biological samples, with improvements in both detail and speed compared to the previous generation of technology. ...
November 30, 2020 | See deep inside living organisms with advanced microscope at ALMS
Researchers at UCLA and beyond can conduct 4 of physiological processes within living organisms using a microscope available from the Advanced Light Microscopy and Spectroscopy Laboratory of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. See deep inside...
November 8, 2020 | Scientists snap molecular building blocks of brain computing
Synapses are specialized devices where learning and memory occur. The efficient transmission of synaptic signals relies on the delicate structure and complex molecular composition of the synapses. However, the small size (several hundred nanometers in diameter) and...
August 24, 2020 | Upgraded cleanroom facilities will give UCLA advanced nanofabrication capabilities
UCLA’s high-tech capabilities for creating atomically tiny devices and materials are undergoing a multimillion-dollar upgrade.August 24, 2020 | Upgraded cleanroom facilities will give UCLA advanced nanofabrication capabilities Engineering school and California...
August 12, 2020 | Study provides insights into how Zika virus suppresses the host immune system
A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside and UCLA senior author Hong Zhou, has outlined how the Zika virus, which constituted an epidemic threat in 2016, suppresses the immune system of its host.Study provides insights into how Zika...
August 1, 2020 | Neuromorphic Chips Take Shape
The concept of a brain-like computing architecture, conceived in the late 1980s by California Institute of Technology professor Carver Mead, is suddenly taking shape. August 1, 2020 |Neuromorphic Chips Take Shape By Samuel Greengard Intel combines 64 of its Loihi...
July 26, 2020 | A team of UCLA researchers receives state grant for potential COVID-19 drug treatment
A team of UCLA researchers received a state grant to test a new drug as a potential treatment for COVID-19.A team of UCLA researchers receives state grant for potential COVID-19 drug treatment By Priscilla GuerreroThis article was originally published by the Daily...
April 15, 2020 | Researchers reveal the mechanisms behind a natural bacteria killer
Scientists are one step closer to adapting the bacteria-killing power of a naturally occurring nanomachine, a tiny particle that performs a mechanical action.April 15, 2020 | Researchers reveal the mechanisms behind a natural bacteria killer Findings by UCLA-led team...
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