Faculty Owned Instruments
Individual PI Group Instruments
Available Instruments (Expand For Stipulations)
Contact: Christopher Hwu, [email protected]
Location: Chandler 863
Lab: Sames
This instrument precisely detects biological (fluorescence and luminescence) events of samples contained within 96-well microplates and measures photophysical properties of known and novel molecules (absorbance and excitation/emission)
Contact: Sarah Xi, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 430
Lab: Shah
Multiwell plate reader for absorbance and fluorscence measurements with variable bandwidth monochrometers
Contact: David Lankri, [email protected]
Location: Chandler 863
Lab: Sames
This instrument purifies chemical mixtures.
Contact: Suk ho Hong, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 430
Lab: Shah
Flash system with UV-Vis detector and fraction collector. Bring your own Biotage flash cartridges.
Contact: Cassie Chartier, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Reserved for reversed-phase HPLC and some analytical size exclusion. UV/Vis diode array detector, analytical and semipreparative scale work, in-line auto-sampler and fraction collector.
Contact: Adrianna Mendieta, [email protected]
Location: Chandler 863
Lab: Sames
This instrument separates a mixture of compounds to identify, quantify or purify its desired individual components.
Contact: Allyson Li, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Used for protein purification, several columns attached for size exclusion chromatography, option to attach affinity, ion exchange, and desalting columns. Single wavelength detection at 280 nm.
Contact: Anne van Vlimmeren, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Flow cytometer with blue and yellow lasers, filters for multi-color fluorescence detection, and 96-well autosampler
Contact: Jason Jiang, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Thermal cycler for PCR with two separately programmable and operable 48-well blocks.
Contact: Dejan Gagoski, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
CCD-based imager for chemiluminescence, fluorescence, and colorimetric imaging of gels with UV or white light.
Contact: Minhee Lee, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 430
Lab: Shah
Microwave-assisted peptide synthesizer with a high-throughput module for serial solid-phase synthesis of up to 12 peptides at a time.
Contact: Cassie Chartier, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Probe sonicator with a digital controller to adjust pulse duration, amplitude, and sequence, housed in a sound reducing enclosure.
Contact: Andrew, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Rotovap with pump, water bath, and digital controller.
Contact: Suk ho Hong, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Water purifier with reverse-osmosed pure water dispensed from a 30 L reservoir tank or ultrapure water produced by additional ion exchange replenished at 8L/hr.
Contact: Jason Jiang, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Large temperature-controlled incubator/shaker, primarily for bacterial growth. Capacity for 6-10 1 L flasks.
Contact: Rashmi Voleti, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Temperature-controlled tabletop centrifuge for 15 mL tubes, 50 mL tubes, and microwell plates.
Contact: Rashmi Voleti, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Temperature-controlled high-speed centrifuge with rotors for 6x 1L bottles (up to 17,000 rcf) and 15x 50mL tubes (up to 33,000 rcf).
Contact: Minhee Lee , [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 440
Lab: Shah
Microvolume UV-Vis spectrophotometer with additional port for 1cm cuvette-based measurements.
Contact: Joe Hammer, [email protected]; Laura Kaufman, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 634
Lab: Kaufman
The Olympus IX71 is an inverted, scanning confocal microscope. It is equipped with a 458 nm, 488 nm, 515 nm, 543 nm, and 643 nm laser lines. There are four objectives: 10X, 20X, 40X (all air) and 60X Oil. For fluorescence or reflectance imaging there are 2 PMT detectors. There is 1 PMT for transmittance imaging. The list of available filters include 452/45, 458/10, 488/3, 505-525, 510 LP, 550/60, 575-629, 575-630, 660 LP
Contact: Iris Sybesma, [email protected]; Laura Kaufman, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 634
Lab: Kaufman
This instrument is an Anton-Paar MCR302 rheometer. The MCR302 allows for determination of viscoelastic properties, such as dynamic moduli and viscosity, of soft materials including polymers, gels, biopolymers, colloids, and other types of soft matter. The rheometer is temperature-controlled and equipped with a solvent trap. Multiple geometries and materials thereof are available. This rheometer is integrated with the Olympus confocal microscope, allowing for simultaneous imaging and mechanical characterization and/or perturbation of samples.
Contact: Setup 1 and 2 - Hyung Jun Kim, [email protected]; Setup 3 - Alec Meacham, [email protected]; Laura Kaufman, [email protected]
Location: Havemeyer 634
Lab: Kaufman
We have three wide-field microscopes appropriate for single-molecule based research. Each microscope has slightly different capabilities. Setup 1 has a commercial microscope body, a spectrometer and an EM-CCD. Setup 2 is a home built system with a chamber appropriate for solvent vapor delivery to the sample and a quartz crystal microbalance for quantifying amount of solvent uptake by the sample, which can be measured during imaging. The detector is also an EM-CCD. Both Setup 1 and 2 are inverted microscopes with available excitation lines at 488 nm, 532 nm, and 638 nm with 100x or 60x oil-immersion objectives. We also have a VAHeat system that can be used to control sample temperature on either of the microscopes. Setup 3 is an upright microscope with 532 excitation, 63x air objective and a liquid N2 cryostat to conduct experiments at low temperature and/or under vacuum. The detector is also an EM-CCD.
