Equipment

Electroporation Equipment

Real-Time Cell Analyzers

Balances

  • One Mettler analytical balance
  • Two top loading electronic balances

CO2 Incubators

Hypoxic Culture Chamber

 

Cell Counting

Centrifuges

  • One Beckman GS-6R refrigerated centrifuge
  • One Hermle Z-382K refrigerated centrifuge
  • Two Eppendorf 5702 clinical centrifuges
  • One RC-5 Sorvall Superspeed centrifuge

Computer Equipment

  • One Macintosh computer
  • Ten PC computers (three equipment-based)
  • One HP LaserJet printer

Liquid Nitrogen storage (all with automated fill and electronic monitors - 123,000 vial total capacity)

  • Three MVE 1536-P tanks
  • One Taylor Wharton LABS-20K tank
  • One Cryosafe Auto-tend tank
  • One Abeyance Cryo Solutions A440 tank

Microscopes

  • Three Nikon Model TMS inverted microscopes
  • One Nikon Eclipse Ts2R inverted microscope
  • One Nikon TS100 inverted microscope fitted for epifluorescence and a Nikon DS-U3 digital camera
  • One TS100 inverted microscope
  • One standard Leitz microscope

Refrigeration

  • Three GEM refrigerators
  • One 4°C refrigerator
  • Nine -20°C freezers
  • One -80°C freezer
  • One walk-in 4°C cold room

Sterile Hoods

  • Six Class II biosafety sterile hoods

Miscellaneous Equipment

  • Two pH meters
  • Four waterbaths
  • Five magnetic stirrers
  • Two power supplies for gel electrophoresis
  • One Leica Vibratome VT1000A for sectioning fresh tissue samples
  • One Millipore ELIX Water Deionization System with positive pressure filtration pump