Instrumentation Available to the Biochemistry Program
Chemistry Department Instruments
SPECTROMETRY
- Bruker Avance 500MHz NMR
- Thermo Electron Almega Raman Microscope
- 2 Agilent 8453 UV/Vis Spectrometers
- Jobin/Yvon Fluoromax-3 Spectrofluorometer
- Shimadzu UV-2401PC UV-Vis
- Perkin Elmer 3100 Atomic Absorption, Graphite Furnace
- Mattson Galaxy 6020 FTIR
- MIDAC M2501 FTIR Interferometer
- Perkin Elmer Spectrum One FTIR Spectrometers (2), one with universal ATR attachment
- Hewlett Packard 8452A Diode Array UV-Vis
- SPEX 1403 Raman Monochromator
- Spectrophysics Nd:YAG Laser
- Nikon Microphot-FX fluorescence/phase contrast/ differential interference contrast microscope equipped with a Spot II digital camera
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
- Rigaku Miniflex X-ray Powder Diffractometer
SEPARATIONS
- Shimadzu LC-10AS High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph
- Shimadzu QP5050 Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
- Hewlett Packard 5890A/5970B Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
- Hewlett-Packard G1602A Capillary Electrophoresis
- B/R Teflon Spinning Band Distillation Column
- ISCO UA-5 UV monitor/Foxy Fraction collector
- Assorted Fraction Collectors
- SpeedVac system
- Assorted Student gas chromatographs
BIOCHEMISTRY
- 2 SoLow –80° Freezers
- Sorvall RC-5B Centrifuge
- Walk-in Coldroom
- Nanopure Water Purifier
- Jasco P-1020 Polarimeter
- Coy Anaerobic Glover Box
COMPUTATIONAL
- Workstations
- SGI Octane/O2 Workstations--5
- Linux Workstations--12
- Departmental Computer Lab--20 Apple Macintosh computers, 2 Dell PC’s
- SGI Altix
- 32 CPU SGI Altix 350, 32Gb Ram, 1.375 TB of scratch space
- 16 CPU SGI Altix 350, 32Gb Ram, 1TB of scratch space
- 16 CPU SGI Altix 350. 16Gb Ram, 0.5TB of scratch space
- 2 CPU SGI Altix 350, 8Gb Ram, 230GB of scratch space
- Total Altix: 66 CPU's, 88GB Ram, 3.105TB of scratch space
- SGI Origin (irix64)
- 32 CPU Origin 2000, 16GB Ram, 80Gb of scratch space
- 64 CPU Origin 2400, 16GB Ram, 89Gb of scratch space
- 4 CPU Origin 200, 1.5Gb Ram, 36Gb of scratch space
- 4 CPU Origin 200, 1.5Gb Ram, 36Gb of scratch space
- 4 CPU Origin 200, 1.5Gb Ram, 36Gb of scratch space
- 4 CPU Origin 200, 1.5Gb Ram, 36Gb of scratch space
- 4 CPU Origin 200, 1.5Gb Ram, 36Gb of scratch space
- Total Irix64: 116 CPU's, 39.5Gb Ram, 350Gb of scratch space
MERCURY RESOURCES
- 32 CPU SGI Origin 300, 32GB Ram, 788Gb of scratch space
- 4 CPU SGI Origin 300, 2Gb Ram, 63Gb scratch space
- 28 CPU (generic vendor) Beowulf cluster. Each node has 1 cpu, 512mb Ram, 120 Gb of scratch (shared across all nodes).
- 156 (38 compute nodes (152), 1 head node (4)) CPU Beowulf cluster from Western Scientific.
Each node has 2 - Dual Core Opteron CPU's (total 4 cpus), 2Gb Ram, and share 2TB of scratch space across all 38 nodes.
Total: 220 CPU's 128Gb Ram, ~4 TB Scratch Space
*Total Cluster Resources: 402 CPU's, 255.5Gb Ram, 7.455TB of scratch space
(* excludes workstation machines)
CALORIMETRY/ELECTROCHEMISTRY
- Microcal VP Isothermal Calorimeter
- Perkin Elmer EEG/PAR Potentiostat
- Parr Bomb Calorimeter
SYNTHESIS
- Innovative Technologies Drybox
- Five complete vacuum lines
- Parr Hydrogenation Apparatus
- Büchi Kugelrohr
- Rotary Evaporators (13)
Biology Department Instruments
GENOMICS
- DNA/RNA purification equipment
- DNA/RNA quantification equipment (GE Nanovue)
- PCR (Applied Biosystems 2400, 9700, Veriti & BioRad MyCycler)
- Quantitative real-time PCR (Applied Biosystems 7300)
- Molecular cloning equipment
- Agarose gel and southern/northern/western blot detection (BioRad ChemiDoc XRS system)
- DNA sequencing (LiCor 4300)
- Luminometer with Dual Injectors (2020n) from Turner BioSystems
PROTEOMICS
- HPLC with electrochemical, RAM and UV/Vis detection (Shimadzu)
- Capillary Electrophoresis (HP)
- Microplate spectrophotometers (Bio Rad 680XR & BioTec EL311)
- Gel electrophoresis equipment (Hoefer PS250, Invitrogen XCell)
- Vibrating microtome (Vibratome)
- Cryostat
- Fluorescent up-right and inverted microscopes (Olympus IX70, Nikon E600)
- Tissue culture facility