Common Equipment List

 

Room

Model

General Description

Contact

Usage

0932

Warm Room

Kept at 37 degree Celsius 

J Martinez

626-4250

Heavy

0932

Labline, shaker table

In warm room for bacteria cultures. Holds 50-250 ml

Elik Essif

626-6516

Moderate

0933

Cold Room

Walk in room kept at 4 degree Celsius 

J Martinez

626-4250

Light

0951

Konica, Film Developer for chemiluminescence

Produces 8x11in only negatives of radio labeled gels and blots

Elik Essif

626-6516

Moderate

3965

High Speed Centrifuge Beckman J2-21

Large floor model centrifuge capable of refrigerated 24 hour. Spins at 24,000 RPM

Gillies

626-5050

Light

0965

Cold Room

Kept at 4degree Celsius 

Elik Essif

626-6516

Light

0966

Autoclave Amsco 2022

Used for the sterilization of surgical equipment and the rendering of bio hazardous wastes to a benign state

Gillies

626-5050

Moderate

3908

Konica Film Developer for chemiluminescence

Produces 8x11in only negatives of radio labeled gels and blots

Elik Essif

626-6516

Heavy

3910

Cold Room

Walk in room kept at 4 degree Celsius 

Taylor

626-1510

Heavy

3912

Xenox photocopier

Digital copy that replicated at 65 CPM

Carol Sesma

Heavy

0964

Cryo Room

This room is for storage of samples in liquid nitrogen dewars

Elik Essif

626-6516

Moderate

3932

Vacuum Oven, Lablines squaroid

Capable of temperatures of 300 degree Celsius under vacuum

Elik Essif

626-6516

Light

3956

High Speed Centrifuge

Large floor model centrifuge capable of refrigerated 24 hour. Spins at 24,000 RPM

J Martinez

626-4250

Heavy

3956

Corning Megapure double water distiller

Creates ultra pure water for cell culture

Elik Essif

626-6516

 

3956

Ultra Centrifuge Beckman L8-70M

Large floor model centrifuge capable of refrigerated 24 hour. Spins at 80,000 RPM

Elik Essif

626-6516

Moderate

3956

High Speed Centrifuge Beckman J2 HS

Large floor model centrifuge capable of refrigerated 24 hour. Spins at 30,000 RPM

Elik Essif

626-6516

Heavy

3956

2 Kodak Gel Imagers

Reads through the use of a ethidium bromide filter labeled gels in the 256 nanometers excitation range or no filter can be used to quantify gels in the physical light range

Elik Essif

626-6516

Moderate

3956

Free Standing Orbital Shaker Incubator Labline 3525

Variable temperature/speed normal atmosphere incubator with 50-2000 ml flask holders

Powis

Heavy

3956

Spectrophotometer Beckman DU7

Uses UV light to measure concentration proteins of DNA and RNA

Gerner

626-2197

Heavy

3956

(Mothballed)

Slab Dryer Model 583 Biorad scientific instruments

Desiccates gels via low heat and low vacuum

Nelson

Moderate

3956

Ice Machine

A water ice machine solely for lab prep work

Gerner

626-2197

Heavy

3956

Isotemp oven/Incubator Fischer Scientific

Capable of temperatures of 220 degree Celsius 

Gerner

626-2197

Light

3956

Incubator VWR1560

Used for bacteria incubation set at 38 degree Celsius

Nelson

Heavy

3956

Beckman Ultra Centrifuge XL-70

Large floor model centrifuge capable of refrigerated 24 hour. Spins at 80,000 RPM

Elik Essif

626-6516

Heavy

3956

Cold Room

Kept at 4 degree Celsius

Gerner

626-2197

Heavy

3956

Analytical Research Labs, Luminometer monolight 3010

Reads luciferase assays in 5 ml polystyrene cuvetts

Gerner

626-2197

Moderate

3956

Cryostat

For cutting frozen samples.

Elik Essif

626-6516

Light

3956

Fluorescent Plate Reader Max Gemini

A291942

 

Elik Essif

626-6516

Light

3956

Beckman Coulter Allegra 6 Centrifuge

A289740

Spins at 8000 rpm for 30 min.

Elik Essif

626-6516

Heavy

3956

Beckman TJ-6 Centrifuge

A178428

Refrigeration unit centrifuge capable of 2000 rpm.

Elik Essif

626-6516

Heavy

3956

High Speed Centrifuge Beckman J2-21M

Large floor model centrifuge capable of refrigerated 24 hour. Spins at 30,000 RPM

Gerner

626-2197

Heavy

3956

Floor standing orbital shaker incubator, NBS 25

Variable temp/speed normal atmosphere incubator with 50-2000ml flask holders 

Bowden

626-6006

Heavy

3956

Ly-Cor near infrared imager

Used for gel & small Animal imaging

 

Medium

3956

Ciphergen

(Mothballed)

 

Thompson-

Carino

Low

3959

High Speed centrifuge J2-21M

Large floor model centrifuge capable of refrigerated 24 hour. Spins at 30,000 RPM

Lake

Moderate

3965

Table Top Orbital Shaker Incubator

Variable temperature/speed normal atmosphere incubator with 10-500 ml flask holders

J Martinez

626-4250

Light

3956

Spectro Photometer Beckman 640B

Uses UV light to measure concentrations of proteins of DNA and RNA

Elik Essif

626-6516

Heavy

3965

Beckman Scintillation Counter LS6000TA

Uses 25ml or smaller vials to read radio labeled samples. Reads C14 tritium S35 and P32

Elik Essif

626-6516

Heavy

3965

Molecular Dynamics, Phosphorimager Storm 860

Able to read radio labeled gels and blots via phosphoralation that have been exposed to europa treated plates. It also Fluorimages at excitation levels of 450 and 535 nm.

Powis

Heavy

3965

FPLC

Pharmacid

Cold Room

Fractioned Liquid Chromatography

Elik Essif

626-6516

Medium

3965

Tabletop orbital shaker incubator by NBS

Tabletop orbital shaker incubator set at 37 degrees C

Bowden

626-6006

Light

3965

Tomy Mini Ultra Centrifuge

High speed centrifuge for small samples

Baker

Medium

3965

PCR workstation

Clean bench for prepping PCR work

Baker

Medium

3965

Ventana Auto Slide Stainer

Stains slides for primary antibodies

Einspahr

Medium

3965

Biophotometer for micro pipettes

Measures luminescence in small samples

Baker

Medium

3965

Lamiter Flow Hood

Preps cultures for hypoxia chamber

Baker

Medium

3965

In-Vivo 400 Hypoxia Chamber

Sustaining cultures in low oxygen

Baker

Heavy

3965

Tetrads

PCR work

Futscher

Heavy

3965

Freeze-Mobile

Freeze-drying samples for later use

Jacobsen

Medium

3965

BioTek

Synergy 2

96-well plate reader that reads luminescence and visible wavelength

Baker

Heavy

3965

Ice Maker

 

Baker

Heavy

3965

Ice Machine

A water ice machine solely for lab prep work

Epner

Heavy

3966

Autoclave amsco SG 120

Used for the sterilization of surgical equipment and the rendering of bio hazardous waste to a benign state

Epner

Heavy

4908

Warm Room

Walk in room kept at 37 degrees C

Lake

Moderate

4950

Cold room

Kept at 4 degrees C

Lake

Heavy

4956

Cold room

Kept at 4 degrees C

Bowden

626-6006

Heavy

4964

Savant, Speedvac Concentrator with refrigerated condensation trap

Desiccates and concentrates samples using centrifugal force combined with sublimation

Bowden

626-6006

Moderate

4964

Scintillation Counter Beckman 3801

Uses 25 ml or smaller vials to read radial labeled samples reads C14, tritium, S35, P32

Alberts

626-7685

Heavy

4966

Ice Machine

A water ice machine solely for lab prep work

Alberts

626-7685

Heavy

4964

BIO-RAD slab dryer model 483

Desiccates gels via low heat and low vacuum

Bowden

626-6006

Heavy

4965

Cold Room

Kept at 4 degrees C

Chow

626-3358

Light

4966

Autoclave, amsco SG120

Used for the sterilization of surgical equipment and the rendering of bio-hazardous waste to a benign state

Alberts

626-7685

Heavy

4964A

Speed Vac

Used to freeze dry materials

Elik Essif

626-6516

Moderate

4964A

Packard Top Count NXT

Reads radioactive material and 96 well plates. Microplate scintillation and luminescence counter

Elik Essif

626-6516

Moderate