FACILITIES
The PI currently runs a biosafety-compatible laboratory of ~1250 sq ft. located in room 220 of Hines Hall. ​​
The following major equipment are available at the BIOME Lab :
3D Bioprinter (BIO X Cellink)
3D Printer ( Formlabs 3)
DHR 2 Discovery Hybrid Rheometer (TA Instruments)
Four CO2 incubators, one of which is dedicated for hypoxia experiments,
Two biosafety (BSL2) cabinets
Three refrigerators (one freezer (-80°C), two LN2 dewars for cell storage)
Lyophilizer
Polymer/Hydrogel fabrication stations (Laurell spin-coater, Mettler-toledo Analytical Balances)
Autoclave (SterilElite 24, Fisher Scientific)
IFluorescent Microscope (Olympus)
One high-speed centrifuge, and two low-speed centrifuges,
One thermocycler
RT-PCR machine (StepOne™ Real-Time PCR System, Applied Biosystems)
UV-vis spectrophotometer (BIOMATE 3S, Thermo Scientific)
Electrophoresis kit
Incubator shaker (MAXQ4450, Thermo Scientific)
Three rockers
Two pH meters (Fisher Scientific Education)
Osmometer (OSMETTE XL, AutoCal Osmometer, Precision Systems)
Two Milli-Q water purification systems (EMD Millipore)
Two ice makers (Scotsman)
Two vacuum ovens (281A, Fisher Scientific)
Two cell counters
The following Major Equipment are available at the JSNN:
Class 1000 cleanroom microfabrication facility
A Carl Zeiss Axio Observer Z1, Microscope-Spinning Disc Confocal
A Zeiss LSM-710 confocal microscope
A fluouresence microscope (Zeiss AX10)
A Nikon Epiphot-time optical inverted microscope
An NTEGRA Micro40 AFM
Mettler Toledo AB-S/FACT Classic Plus Series Analytical Balances
A Bruker AXS D8 Discover X-ray diffractormeter system
An HP 5890 inverse gas chromatograph
A Waters 410 gel permeation chromatography
An Agilent/Varian 240 MS Ion Trap Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometer
An Agilent/Varian 320 MS Triple Quadrupole GC/LC Mass Spectrometer
An Agilent/Varian 500 MS Ion Trap Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometer
A DNR MiniLumi Bio Imaging System
A Beckman-Coulter Flow Cytometer
A Horiba SPRI-LAB+ Surface Plasma Resonance System