Facilities and Equipment
The interdisciplinary program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
is housed on the second floor of the Schear-McFadden Science Center
along with the Physics, Chemistry, Life and Earth Sciences, Equine
Science and Nursing departments. In fall 2009, the Science Center
reopened after a $20
million project to modernize and expand the existing science facility.
The new Science Center boasts a total of over 96,000 square feet of
well-equipped laboratories, technologically advanced classrooms, and
dedicated research space. We also have 2 greenhouses and a turtle
habitat.
The Science Center is equipped with the following:
- Applied Biosystems 310 DNA sequencer
- Sorvall RC5B plus superspeed centrifuge
- Rigaku Benchtop X-ray diffractometer
- VWR C02 incubator
- Molecular Devices fMax fluorescent microtiterplate reader
- GE Pharmacia AKTA Prime protein chromatography workstation
- GE Pharmacia Amersham Biotrak II visible range plate reader
- Mixonix sonicator 3000
- Refrigerated Centrifuges (5)
- Problot hybridization oven
- Olympus BX-40 fluorescence microscope
- Zeis Axiovert 40C inverted microscope
- Nanosurf EasyScan Scanning Tunneling Microscopes (6)
- Nanosurf Atomic Force Microscope
- Hewlett Packard 8452A Diode Array UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
- Ocean Optics USB2000 UV and Visible Spectrophotometers (6)
- Hewlett Packard 5890/5972 Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer
- Varian Star 3400 Capillary Gas Chromatograph
- Spectra Physics HPLC
- Nima Technologies Langmuir-Blodgett Trough
- Fisons Instruments GC8000/MD800 Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer
- Jobin-Yvon LabRam HR800 Dispersive Raman Spectrometer (532nm and 633nm
lasers)
- Jobin-Yvon Ramanor Raman System (Lexel 95 Argon Ion laser, 488nm and
514.5nm)
- Johnson-Mathey Magnetic Susceptibility Balance
- Labconco Delta Series Class II Biosafety Cabinet
- Milton-Roy Spec 20D+ Spectrophotometers (6)
- Nanosurf EasyScan Scanning Tunneling Microscope (6)
- Nanosurf EasyScan Atomic Force Microscope
- Parr 1672 Bomb Calorimeter with Thermistor Probe and PC interface
- Perkin Elmer Autosystem XL Gas Chromatograph
- Perkin-Elmer Lambda 2 UV-visible spectrometer (2)
- Perkin-Elmer LS50B Fluorimeter with 96-well microplate reader
- Perkin-Elmer 1600 FTIR Spectometer
- Rigaku MiniFlex II Powder X-ray Diffractometer
- TA Instruments DSC 2010 Differential Scanning Calorimeter
- Tektronix TDS 420A-XL Digital Oscilloscope
- Thermo Finnigan Gradient HPLC with Diode Array Detector
- Thermo Jarrell Ash TraceScan ICP Atomic Emission Spectrometer
- Thermo Jarrell Ash AAScan-1 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (with graphite
furnace)
- Thermo Nicolet 380 FT-IR Spectrometer