Additional Resources

Available Equipment


Common use equipment is available on all floors of the new Bioscience Research Building. For more information, please see Dr. Kevin McIver's CBMG Retreat Presentation: Core Facilities and Common Equipment Update.

  • A Typhoon Imager (1st floor): fluorescence, chemiluninescence, phosphoimaging.
  • Fuji Imagers (2nd and 3rd floors): phosphoimager, takes both Kodak and Fuji screens
  • Fuji Cooled CCD (3rd floor): chemiluminescence
  • Beckman Optima L90 Ultracentrifuge (1st and 2nd Floor): SW32 Ti, SW41 Ti, SW55 Ti, 90 Ti
  • Beckman Optima L100 Ultracentrifuge(2nd Floor): 100 Ti
  • Beckman Optimax Tabletop (2nd Floor): MLA-130, MLS-50
  • Superspeed centrifuges: Sorvall RC-6
  • BioRad Gel Documentation Systems
  • Kodak X-OMAT Film Developer (2nd floor)
  • Zeiss Inverted Fluorescence Scope (3rd floor)

Additional information regarding other common equipment resources available within the College of Chemical & Life Sciences will be posted here soon.

 

This page is currently under construction.....

Available Shared Equipment

Centrifuges

Equipment Type 
 Vendor  Model 
Location(s) Contact 
Superspeed Centrifuge
Sorvall  RC-6 
0125 BRB

Dr. C. Chang (carenc@umd.edu)

Dr. J. Kwak (jkwak@umd.edu)

Superspeed Centrifuge Sorvall RC-6 3117 BRB
Dr. V. Lee (vtlee@umd.edu)
Superspeed Centrifuge Sorvall RC-5B 2121 MICB  
Ultracentrifuge Beckman Optimax 130k table top
0233 BRB

Dr. C. Chang (carenc@umd.edu)

Dr. J. Kwak (jkwak@umd.edu)

Ultracentrifuge Beckman Optima L90K 3117 BRB
Dr. V. Lee (vtlee@umd.edu)
Ultracentrifuge Sorvall OTO-65B 2121 MICB
 
 Ultracentrifuge Sorvall OTO-65B 2121 MICB 

 

Speed Vac System
Thermo Savant 
120-115 0219 BRB

Dr. C. Chang (carenc@umd.edu)

Dr. J. Kwak (jkwak@umd.edu)



 

Imagers

Equipment Type 
Vendor Model 
Location(s) Contact 
Gel Doc System
Bio-Rad 
Gel Doc
0219 BRB

Dr. C. Chang (carenc@umd.edu)

Dr. J. Kwak (jkwak@umd.edu)

Phosphor Imager
Fuji SAL 5100
3227 BRB
Dr. J. DeStefano ()
Phosphor Imager
Fuji Typhoon 1231 BRB
Dr. J. DeStefano ()

Cooled CCD Camera

for Phosphor Imager

Fuji LAS 3000
3227 BRB
Dr. J. DeStefano ()
Phosphor Imager Bio-Rad FX ProPlus
0107 MICB
Amy Beaven (abeaven@umd.edu

Additional Miscellaneous Equipment

Equipment Type 
Vendor Model 
Location(s) Contact 
Speed Vac System
Thermo Savant
120-115 0129 BRB

Dr. C. Chang (carenc@umd.edu)

Dr. J. Kwak (jkwak@umd.edu)

Speed Vac System
Thermo Savant 
120-115 3207
Dr. K. McIver (kmciver@umd.edu)
Incubator Shaker
Barnstead MaxQ 5000 0207 BRB

Dr. C. Chang (carenc@umd.edu)

Dr. J. Kwak (jkwak@umd.edu)

Incubator Shaker Barnstead MaxQ 5000 0231 BRB

Dr. C. Chang (carenc@umd.edu)

Dr. J. Kwak (jkwak@umd.edu)

Incubator Shaker
Barnestead 
MaxQ 3000 
3111 BRB
Dr. K. McIver (kmciver@umd.edu)
 Incubator Shaker
Barnstead MaxQ 5000
3117 BRB
Dr. V. Lee (vtlee@umd.edu)
Incubator Shaker 
Barnstead MaxQ 3000
3111 BRB
Dr. K. McIver (kmciver@umd.edu)