Facilities
Laboratory—Our 725 sq. ft. laboratory located in room
E117 on the first floor of the Science
Building. The laboratory
is fully equipped for microbial and molecular biological research. Each lab bench (5) is fully equipped with vortexers,
dry baths with heating blocks, pipets (manual and auto) and mini-centrifuges.
Major equipment includes two -20C freezers, two 4C refrigerators, four
incubators (25C, 30C, 37C and 42C), a bench top low-speed centrifuge, a
spectrophotometer, four platform shakers, a colony counter, two phase-contrast
microscopes, an inverted phase-contrast microscope, a Veriti® PCR
thermal cycler, electrophoresis equipment, a gel documentation system, a
microscope mounted perfusion chamber and associated temperature control
equipment, and two waterbaths.
Department Core
Facilities— Relevant shared core resources in the department include an autoclave/glass washing facility, a Barnstead
NanoPure Diamond double distiller, several Sorvall ultracentrifuges, several
-80C freezers, 4 PCR thermal cyclers, a Lightcycler RT PCR machine, a Perkins
Elmer sequencing machine, a GE Amersham phosphoimager, a flow cytometer, an
epMotion 5075 liquid handling robot for laboratory automation, confocal and
epiflourescent microscopes, and a transmission electron microscope able to
photograph phage.
Other—Departmental support staff includes a core
facilities manager, a team of college laboratory technicians and administrative
personnel. Plumbing, carpentry, electrical and machine shops with full-time
staff are available to faculty in the science division. Campus computer
facilities are extensive, and include a fully-staffed Help Desk on call for all
computer issues.
