The Department is equipped for chemical, biochemical, and pharmaceutical research through instrumentation owned by research groups, the Department, and the University. Among the instrumentation and facilities at the group and departmental levels are UV-VIS spectrophotometers, scanning infrared spectrophotometer, Spectrophotofluorometer, HPLC, refrigerated high speed centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, -100 degree C freezers, UVP BioChemi Gel Documentation System, all necessary instruments and software for DNA microarray analysis, a cell culture laboratory consisting of Class 2 Type A/B3 vertical biological safety cabinets, carbon dioxide incubators, microplate reader and other cell-culture related facilities, gel electrophoresis equipment, an air-conditioned animal care facility, a shared Olympus AX70 fluorescence microscope and an Olympus DP70 camera, a shared Finnigan MAT Navigator HPLC/MS Mass detector interfaced to a SpectraSYSTEM P4000 HPLC system.
Other facilities accessible include a Bruker 400 MHz NMR spectrometer and a core campus mass spectrometry facility (in purchase) consisting of a 7T Fourier-Transform ion-cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FTMS) with electrospray ionization (ESI) capabilities, a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI TOF) mass spectrometer and accessory equipment to excise samples from 2D gels and prepare sample plates for analysis in the MALDI TOF mass spectrometer.
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