SAInT Center
New in 2014, the Stewart’s Advanced Instrumentation and Technology (SAInT) Center
- Bruker AVANCE HD 500 MHz NMR Spectrometer
- Bruker Autoflex Speed MALDI Mass Spectrometer
- Bruker Dimension
ICON Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) - Bruker Maxis Impact HD Mass Spectrometer
- Bruker Vertex70 Fourier-Transformed Infrared (FT-IR) Spectrometer
- Agilent 1890
High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) - Agilent Cary 100 Ultraviolet-
Visable (UV-Vis) Spectrometer - TA Instruments Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimeter (MDSC)
- TA Instruments Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)
- TA Instruments nano Differential Scanning
Calorimter (DSC) - TA Instruments nano Isothermal Titration Calorimeter (ITC)
- GE
Heathcare Life Sciences ÄKTA pure Fast Protein Liquid Chromatograph (FPLC) - Shimadzu Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and Total Nitrogen analyzer
- XOS HD Prime X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF)
- Hitachi 1510 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
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Biology Department Equipment
Shared equipment housed in the Biology Department includes:
- ABI Prism 310 Genetic Analyzer
- Miniopticon real-time PCR system (BioRad). This system is comprised of a 48-well MJ Mini™ thermal cycler equipped with a two-color detection system and a PC equipped with software for data acquisition and analysis.
- Gene Amp PCR System 97000 Thermal Cycler (Perkin Elmer)
- T100 Thermal Cycler (Bio-Rad)
- Bio-Rad Molecular Imager, Chemidoc XRS Imaging System. This system is capable of imaging chemiluminescent, fluorescent and colorimetric samples. This system includes a compact darkroom, transilluminator and a supercooled high resolution 1.44 megapixel CCD camera. This is attached to a PC computer equipped with the Quantity One 1-D analysis software for data acquisition and analysis. This is used for imaging ethidium bromide stained gels
- Nikon Ti-S compound inverted microscope equipped for DIC and fluorescence
- Digital microscopy workstations are available during the summer months. Each workstation is equipped with a Gateway computer that is linked to a Nikon TS100 Microscope with phase and fluorescence optics, a Sony DXC-390 CCD color camera, a Scion Corporation CG-7 frame grabber board and software, and a 17-inch high-resolution monitor.
- Leica CMI3000 inverted microscope equipped with DIC optics and microinjection
capabilites (located in Dr. Mason's lab) - Bio-Spec Nano spectrophotometer, Shimadzu Biotech
- –80ºC freezers (2)
- SpeedVac centrifugal evaporator
- Low- and high-speed centrifuges
- Beckman TL-100 table-top Ultracentrifuge
- Shaking water bath incubator
- Shaking air incubators (2)
- UV light boxes (3)
- UV/visible spectrophotometer
- Multiple fumehoods and biosafety cabinets
- Beckman 6500 liquid scintillation counter
- Molecular Devices Vmax microplate reader
- Autoclave
- Incubators (multiple)