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The UMBTC laboratory is 740 square feet and is made up of a cell culture room, wet lab space, student work space, molecular lab, dark room and storage room - see below for a list of equipment housed in our laboratory.
Equipment found within our laboratory space
- Class II laminar flow biological safety cabinets
- Dual water-jacketed CO2 incubators
- Variable oxygen CO2 incubator
- Liquid nitrogen cryostorage container
- S3e cell sorter
- Ultracentrifuge
- Neon transfection system
- Inverted and compound microscope
- Water baths
- Chemical hood
- Precision balance
- pH meter
- Table top centrifuges
- FPLC chromatography system
- NanoDrop
- PCR thermocycler, standard and rapid
- Real time PCR thermocycler
- LightCycler
- Multimode plate readers (luminescence, fluorescence, absorption)
- Freezers (-80 and -20)
- Refrigerators
- Electrophoresis equipment
- Western blot apparatus
- Darkroom
- Microtomes
- EVOS M7000 Imaging system.
Accessible equipment outside our laboratory space DNA sequencer
- DNA sequencer
- LightCycler 96
- Confocal microscope
- Inverted fluorescent microscope
- High speed centrifuges
- Water purification system
- Autoclaves
- Analytical balances