Barnstead Water Purifier

Deionize water

Brookfield Viscometers

Viscometer

Dataphysics Tensiometer

Tensiometer

Waters Alliance 2695 HPLC (with UV/Visual, Fluorescence, Photodiode Array, and Differential Refractive Index Detectors

High performance Liquid Chromatography; analysis of proteins and other compounds

Beckman Coulter Allegra 21 Centrifuge

Centrifuge

Constant Temperature Ovens

Hybridization and incubation (NOT bacterial!)

TA Instruments DSC Q200

Differential Scanning Calorimeter

US Stoneware Unitized Jar Mills

Polish beads (chemical)

Wescor Vapro Vapor Pressure Osmometer & Advanced Micro Osmometer

Measure osmolarity

ESA Corona Plus Cad

Charged Aerosol Detector; measures non-volatile and semi-volatile analytes in the eluent from a HPLC system

EMD Aquastar AQC22 Titrator

Titrator

LJL Biosystems Analyst HT

Multimode Plate Reader; fluorescence-based high throughput detection; 96- and 384-well plate formats

Bio-Rad Thermal Cycler

For performing both regular and Q-PCR; strip and 96-well plate formats

Nanodrop

Quantification of Nucleic acids

Hitachi UV/Vis Spectrophotometer

Spectrophotometer; quantification of Nucleic acids (and other molecules)

Avestin Emulsiflex Homogenizer

Tissue dissociation/ homogenization (large scale)

Sonicator

Tissue/ cell dissociation (small scale)

Protein Simple

Analysis of proteins (runs and analyzes Western blots)

Chemi-Doc System

Imaging and quantification of nucleic acids proteins

Perkin Elmer Multimode Plate Reader

Runs 96-well format protein and cellular assays (protein quantification, proliferation/ apoptosis assays, ELISA, etc) at various wavelengths

Berthold Microplate Luminometer

Quantitative measurement of luminescence (luciferase assay)

Nikon Inverted Fluorescence Microscope & Zeiss Stereo Microscope

Microscopy; analysis of proteins in cells/ tissue sections

Olympus Microscope (Biology)

State-of-the art Fluorescence microscope with multiple applications

Tissue culture facility (with hood, and refrigerator)

Cell Culture studies

Shared refrigerators

Cold storage

Shared -80⁰C freezers

Cold storage