Whether you’re studying a neurodegenerative disease or dissecting a specimen, you’ll find the equipment you need in our facilities. We’ve collected some of the best equipment around to help you with your research and studies:
Shared Major Instruments and Spaces
- EVOS inverted fluorescence microscope
- Dionex/ThermoFisher ion chromatograph
- Leco TruMac carbon/nitrogen analyzer
- PerkinElmer Optima Series ICP optical emission spectrometer
- Tekmar-Dohrman total organic carbon analyzer
- Turner Designs 10-AU fluorometer
- O. I. Analytical Flow Solution IV autoanalyzer for total dissolved nitrogen analyses
- Environmental chambers (5)
- Greenhouse
- Darkroom
- Aquaria room
Common Lab and Field Equipment
Lab
- Fluorescence microscopes
- Gas chromatograph
- High-performance liquid chromatography unit with diode-array detector
- High-speed refrigerated centrifuges
- Image analyzer
- Laminar flow hoods
- LECO TruMac Series CN Macro Determinator
- Liquid scillintation counter
- Luminescence spectrometer
- Microplate readers (UV/Vis and flourescent)
- Microtomes
- PCR thermal cyclers
- Phase and fluorescence microscope
- Photosynthetic gas-exchange analyzer
- Radiometer-photometer
- Real-time PCR system
- Scanning electron microscope
- Tissue culture hoods and cO@ incubators
- Two heating/cooling incubators
- Ultracentrifuge
- Ultracold freezer
- Ultrapure water production units
- UV-vis spectrophotometers
- Vapor pressure osmometers
- Video densitometer
- Ancillary equipment for molecular biology
- Atomic absorbance spectrophotometer
- Autoclaves
- Benchtop fluorometer
- Carbon dioxide incubator
- Cell sorter/flow cytometer
- ChemiDoc imager
- Confocal microscope
- Constant temperature bath
- Cryotome
- DNA sequencing apparatus
- Drum roller for incubating yeast and bacteria
- Electrophoresis documentation/analysis unit
- Electrophoresis units
- Electroporator
Field
- Acoustic analysis equipment (song meter recording equipment, shotgun microphone)
- Spherical densitometer
- Camera traps
- Drone
- Video Cameras
- Use of equipment in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is also possible.