We are fully equipped for protein biochemistry, enzymology, cell biology and molecular biology. Some of our key equipment includes:
- Microscopes (see link above for microscopy page)
- Centrifuges: preparative, ultra, analytical ultra (shared)
- Incubators and shakers for yeast, bacterial, and mammalian cell culture
- Laminar flow biosafety cabinet for mammalian cell culture and work with bacterial pathogens
- Two -70° freezers
- Avestin continuous flow cell disruptor
- 3 FPLC systems, 2 refrigerated
- Nanodrop UV-vis spectrometer
- Varian-Cary UV-vis spectrometer
- Hitachi cuvette-based fluorimeter
- Two Molecular Devices plate-based fluorimeters (Spectramax Gemini XPS and Gemini EM, shared with the Hoppins lab)
- Perkin-Elmer plate luminometer with robotic plate stacker
- Wyatt DynaPro III quasielastic light scattering spectrometer
- Vapro osmometer
- Analytical and preparative balances
- pH meters
- Conductivity meter
- NIST-traceable high-precision thermometer
- Plasma cleaner
Additional instrumentation within the Department of Biochemistry:
- Wyatt SEC-MALS instrument
- Horiba Jobin-Yvon cuvette-based fluorimeter
- CD spectrometer
- Beckman XL-I analytical utracentrifuge
- Octet and SPR protein interaction instruments
There are, of course, shared or core facilities for CryoEM, mass spectrometry, light microscopy, NMR etc.