During the last several years, we have upgraded the research facilities throughout the department and college. We have created several state-of-the-art shared instrumentation laboratories that enable our students and faculty to have access to sophisticated instruments whose purchase and maintenance costs far exceed the budgets of individual investigators. Two of these shared instrument laboratories center around biological imaging, for both electron and light microscopy, including a field-emission scanner, a confocal microscope and an image reconstruction/deconvolution microscope. 

Other core facilities on campus provide instrumentation for fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) and analysis, NMR, and mass spectrometry. Equipment and analytical instruments are available in both faculty and core laboratories for the maintenance of animal and plant tissue cultures, production of monoclonal antibodies, synthesis and micro-analysis of proteins, large-scale fermentation and cultivation of microorganisms, and computer-assisted molecular modeling. Support staffing in shared instrumentation facilities is provided by the college, and maintenance costs have been subsidized by the college, thereby providing even occasional users with appropriate training and access, and simultaneously, keeping instrument use costs low. We have found that this strategy provides exceptional opportunities for research and training, and enables our students to perform experiments with instrumentation that is at the leading edge of technology.

Imaging Core

The Imaging Core (IC) provides researchers in the Life Sciences with the opportunity to image live, fixed, unlabeled or fluorescently labeled samples using one of several conventional and advanced light microscope systems, including laser scanning confocal and total internal reflection.

Genomics Core

The Flow Cytometry is located in room 0107 Microbiology Building. The facility is equipped with a state-of-the-art Agilent 4150 TapeStation System, Roche LightCycler 480 Real-Time qPCR machine, Covaris S220 Focused-ultrasonicator and BioRad CFX96 qPCR.

Flow Cytometry Core (Closed)

Unfortunately, the Flow Cytometry Facility in Bioscience Research Building is no longer
available as a core to users outside CBMG. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause
and point people to other flow cytometry core facilities on campus in Veterinary Medicine in the
Gudelski Building and in the Bioengineering BioWorkshop in Clark Hall.