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Submit your usage
for October
Please log your usage for October 2025 on this google form.
You can check your submissions for October 2025 on this google sheet.
Hourly recharge rates (effective October 1, 2025)
Rates have been approved by Management Accounting and Analysis (MAA) and the Dean's Office in January 2025.
| Description | internal rate1 | external rate 1 for academia and non-profits |
external rate 2 for the rest of the world |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| regular | extended | regular | extended | regular | extended | |
| Confocal microscopes2,3 | 45 | 18 | 76 | 31 | 153 | 61 |
| GE DeltaVision OMX SR super resolution microscope3 | 60 | 30 | 104 | 52 | 207 | 104 |
| Misc. light microscopes | 10 | -- | 17 | -- | 34 | -- |
| Evident VS200 Scanner4 | 16 | 8 | 28 | 13 | 55 | 26 |
| Philips CM100 transmission electron microscope | 75 | -- | 128 | -- | 257 | -- |
| Sample preparation lab | 41 | -- | 70 | -- | 140 | -- |
| Training and assistance5 | 73 | -- | 127 | -- | 253 | -- |
| Consumables | at cost | |||||
1 Users must provide valid UW budget information i.e., worktags, to use the internal rate. UW Biology users can also use the internal rate, please check with Facility staff.
2 Confocal microscopes: Leica SP5 II laser scanning confocal microscope on an inverted stand, Nikon A1R HD25 laser scanning confocal microscope, Olympus IX81 with DSU spinning disk confocal microscope, and Yokogawa CSU-X1 spinning disk confocal microscope
3 On the confocals and OMX, sessions after 6PM and before 9AM, weekends, or with duration longer than 6 hours, that is from the 7th hour onward, will be charged at extended rate.
4 Sessions longer than 3 hours, that is from the 4th hour onward, will be charged at extended rate.
5 This is a surcharge to the hourly rate of the equipment. Microscope training usually consists of two 3-hour sessions and other equipment training can be 30 min. to an hour.