Equipment and Facilities

Nucleic Acid Preparation and Analysis

· Gradient Thermal Cyclers

· Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Instrument

· Bio-Rad Gel Documentation System

· Radioisotope License

· Bio-Rad Isotope Imaging System

· Nano-drop spectrophotometer. 

Cell Preparation, Tissue Culture and Analysis

· Fluorescent Microscopy with Digital Imaging Facility

· Mammalian Cell Culturing Hoods and Tissue Culture Facility

· Precellys Bead Mill Tissue Homogenizer

· Stationary and Shaking Incubators

· Autoclave Facility

· -80 Degree Freezers

NMR

· Varian Inova 400 MHz FT-NMR with multinuclear probe

UV/Vis

· Hewlett Packard 8453 diode array UV/Vis spectrophotometer (2)

· Hewlett Packard 8452A diode array UV/Vis spectrophotometer

· Ocean Optics USB 2000 UV/Vis Spectrometers with laptops (6)

X-Ray

· Enraf Nonius X-ray Generator and Precession Camera, and Weissenberg camera

· Enraf Nonius CAD4 single crystal diffractometer

Chromatography and Mass Spectroscopy

· Hewlett Packard GC 5890 Series II with HP 5971 Series Mass Selective Detector

· Agilent GC 6890 with cryogenic cooling, autosampler, and gas-sampling valve; 5973n inert Mass Selective Detector

· Hewlett Packard 5890 Gas Chromatograph with TCD Detector

· Agilent 7890 Gas Chromatograph with autosampler and TCD Detector

· Agilent HPLC System series 1100 Liquid Chromatograph with 6120 Electrospray Ionization Mass Selective Detector

· Chromatography Chamber, Isotemp, Fisher

Fluorimetry and Photolysis

· OLIS Modernized SLM Aminco Instruments SPF-500C Spectrofluorometer

Miscellaneous Equipment

· pH Meters, Various Digital Models

· Centrifuge IEC-4B

· Branson 3510 Sonicators 3510 (2), 3210, and 2210

· Millipore ConSepLC100

· Electrophoresis Apparatus, BioRad Mini-cell 1000/500

· Eppendorf Table Top Centrifuge

· Sorvall Ultracentrifuge

· Mettler Toledo Ultra Microbalance

· Nano-drop spectrophotometer

· Nanopure Water Equipment