Available Facilities for Molecular Biology and Virology

The 3,000 sq ft biology/virology suite includes open office space, a fully equipped BSL-2 cell culture lab, open space molecular biology lab, formulations and pharmaceutics lab, microbial lab and an office environment.

The laboratories are well-equipped with all of the resources necessary to carry out cellular biology and virology testing as well as in vitro work with purified proteins. Major equipment includes:

• Four biological safety cabinets
• One chemical fume hood
• Bio Rad Bio-Plex Luminex System
• Thermo Forma Cryopreservation System
• Beckman Scintillation Counter
• Becton Dickinson FACSCalibur
• Bio Rad Molecular Imager
• Two Applied Biosystems GeneAmp PCR machines
• Two TaqMans (Applied Biosystems 7500 and BioRad iCycler)
• Perkin Elmer Wallac Victor2 Fluorescence and Luminescence Multilabel Counter
• Turner Biosystems Luminometer Veritas
• Molecular Devices Spectra Max M2
• Sorvall Legend Refrigerated Centrifuge
• Beckman Coulter Ultra Centrifuge
• Six microscopes (upright, inverted, fluorescence and dissecting)
• Three double-stack CO₂Incubators
• Odyssey Li-Cor Infrared Imager
• Bio Rad Gel Viewer 
• Shimadzu UV-VIS Spectophotometer
• Shimadzu Spectroflurophotometer
• BMG LabTech Nephelometer
• Floor and bench shakers for bacterial incubation
• Dry 37˚C bacterial incubator
• UV Cross Linker and Hybridization oven
• Multiple bench centrifuges, heating and cooling blocks