Molecular and Cell Biology Facility - Equipment
Cell Culture Labs
| Equipment | Function |
|---|---|
| Flow hoods, incubators, centrifuges & microscopes | General cell culture |
| Electroporators | Transfection of mammalian cells |
| Muse Cell Analyzer (Luminex) | Benchtop cell analysis based on flow cytometry |
| Incucyte Systems (Sartorius) | Live cell imaging and analysis |
| Seahorse XFe96 | Extracellular Flux Analyzer |
| Biosafety level II labs with flow hoods, incubators, centrifuges & microscopes | Cell engineering with moderate-risk agents |
Molecular Biology Labs
| Equipment | Function |
|---|---|
| Illumina MiSeq | High-throughput whole-genome analysis |
| Gnetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems) | Traditional Sanger sequencing |
| BioRad real time PCR machines (Two ABI 7500 and one CFX384) | Quantification of mRNA levels |
| Bioanalyzer (Applied Biosystems) | Automated electrophoresis tool for quality control of biomolecules |
| NanoDrop spectrophotometers | RNA/DNA quantification |
| Spectramax plus 384 (Molecular Device) | |
| Glomax explorer | Microplete reader, reads luminescence, fluorescence and absorbance. |
| Odyssey Infrared Imaging system (LI-COR biosciences) | Western blot analysis |
| Jess chemiluminescent and fluorescent capillary western blotting technology (ProteinSimple) | Western blot analysis |