Major Equipment Available On-site

BSL-2 cell culture facility with two NuAire 425-600 biosafety laminar flow hoods, two Napco 5400 incubators, centrifuge and liquid N₂ storage

Pressure controlled and manual microinjection, micropipette aspiration, micropipette production facility, pressure transducers, parallel plate flow

Agarose gel, polyacrylamide gel and Western blotting; Q-dot 605 secondary antibodies used for Western detection on UV-transilluminator

As part of the Biointerfaces Laboratory and CPS labs: Raman Spectroscopy, Zeta Characterization, Surface Plasmon Resonance System, Atomic Force Microscopy

 

 

20x, 40x, and 63x for brightfield, phase and polarized transmitted light and R, G, B fluorescence; DFC350 FX R2 CCD and DFC280 R2 color video cameras

Mammalian Cell Culture Facility

Particle Characterization Facility

Electrophoresis and Molecular Characterization

Micromanipulation and Biophysical Characterization

Automated Leica DMI6000B with Live Cell Capabilities

Point sonicator and bath sonicator for dispersion of particles; Beckman Coulter Ultracentrifuge for removal of aggregates and subcellular fractionation

Sonication and  Ultracentrifugation

Incubator shaker, 6 liter centrifuge, Äkta Prime Plus affinity separation and gel chromatography, HPLC, circular dichroism, UV-Vis and Fluorometer

Recombinant Protein Production and Characterization

SCINT — CMU

Sub-Cellular Interactions with Nanomaterial Technologies