Facilities & Equipment
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The Biology Department maintains research facilities and equipment to support faculty and student research. All equipment in our Biology Core Lab and Microscopy Core Lab are available for all faculty and students to use. Our faculty embrace a shared equipment policy in which equipment maintained by individual faculty is available for others to use after proper training.
- Vivarium
- Aquatic facility
- Bat flight facility
- Walk-in cold room
- Walk-in environmental chamber
- High-performance computer cluster
- Autoclaves
- Dishwashers
- Refrigerators
- -20 Freezers
- -80 Freezers
- Liquid nitrogen freezers
- Liquid nitrogen dewars
- Biosafety cabinets
- Chemical fume hoods
- Variable temperature incubators
- Variable temperature incubator shakers
- Carbon dioxide incubators
- Room temperatures centrifuges (for tubes and plates)
- Variable temperature centrifuges
- Hematocrit tube centrifuge
- Orbital shakers
- Rocking shakers
- Maxi Rotator
- Water baths
- Hot blocks
- Heating plates
- Magnetic stir plates
- Paddle blender (Stomacher)
- Speed vacuum concentrator
- Single-channel pipettes
- Multi-channel pipettes
- Repeater pipettes
- Light box
- Light microscopes
- Light microscope w/ imaging system
- Dissecting microscopes
- Inverted microscopes
- Inverted microscope w/ heated stage and imaging system
- Phase contrast microcope w/ imaging system
- Fluorescent microscopes w/ imaging system
- Photostereomicroscope
- Thermal imaging camera
- Digital cameras
- High-speed camera
- Bead beaters
- Sonicators
- Maxwell automated DNA/RNA extraction system
- Gene Pulser Xcell electroporation system
- Gel electrophoresis boxes
- Gel imagers
- NanoDrop Microvolume Spectrophotometer
- Bioanalyzer
- Experion On-chip Gel Electrophoresis System
- Bio-Plex
- Thermal cyclers
- qPCR detection systems
- Genetic analyzer
- Hemocytometers
- Flow cytometer
- Automated cell counter
- Fast protein liquid chromatography system
- High pressure liquid chromatograph
- Gas chromatograph
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer
- Vis/Fluorescent spectrophotometer
- Mercury analyzer
- Plate reader
- Spectrophotometers
- Luminometer
- Solid phase extraction manifold
- pH meters
- Conductivity/salinity meters
- Dissolved oxygen meters
- Fluoride meter
- Ammonia meter
- Nitrite meter
- YSI environmental probes
- Backpack shocker
- Emergent insect traps
- Minnow traps
- Sediment Sieves
- Waders
- Swim flume
- Optomotor response chamber
- C-start arena