Instrumentation
A state-of-the-art science facility housing the Chemistry and Biology Departments supports student-faculty research and includes fully equipped teaching laboratories. National Science Foundation grants and other funds have provided advanced equipment for student and faculty use including:
- Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer (LC-MS)
- GE Healthcare Åkta Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography system (FPLC)
- Two Beckman Coulter Gold Bioessential High-Performance Liquid Chromatography systems (HPLC)
- Applied Biosystems iCycler Real-Time PCR system
- Beckman Coulter Cytomics FC500 flow cytometer
- NMR spectrometer
- Cary Eclipse Spectrofluorimeter
- Cary 50 Bio thermostatted UV/visible spectrophotometerAgilent 8453 UV/visible spectrophotometer
- Agilent 5973/6890N gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer system with autosampler
- Varian Eclipse Fluorometer and Fluorescence Polarimeter
- Nanodrop spectrophotometer
- Licor DNA sequencer and image analyzer (two separate instruments)
- Nicolet Magna 550 FT-IR and Perkin Elmer 1430 IR spectrometers
- Buck model 200A atomic absorption spectrometer
- Hewlett-Packard chiral capillary gas chromatograph
- JOEL scanning electron microscope with Energy and Wavelength Dispersive Spectroscopy abilities
- X-ray diffractometer
- X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (in the divisional Keck facility)
- Zeiss LSM 800 confocal microscope