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BNRF Instruments

BioNano Research Facilities include laboratories on the Evansdale and Downtown campuses. BNRF houses instrumentation to help characterize and analyze the interaction of fabricated materials and their effect on mammalian cell cultures.

Click on the categories below to jump to those sections. See the SRF instrumentation list for contact and  location information.

Cell Culture Microscopy Spectroscopy Mass Spectroscopy Sterilization Electrophoresis Chromotography Refrigeration

Cell Culture

CO 2 Incubators

UV-Vis Microplate Spectrophotometer

BioTek Epoch spectrophotometer

Labconco FreeZone 4.5 Lyophilizer


Centrifugation

SORVALL Legend X1R

SORVALL Legend Micro 17R

Microscopy

Brightfield Optical Microscope

AMG Micromaster inverted microscope

AMG EVOS CORE XL digital inverted microscope

Confocal Fluorescence Microscope

Olympus Spinning Disc Fluorescent Confocal Microscope 
Confocal Microscope SOP
  • DSU spinning disc confocal system
  • DAPI, FTIC,CY3, U/B/G fluorescence filter cubes
  • CCD camera for high speed imaging and video recording
  • 4×, 20×, 40× and 100× objectives lenses
  • Motorized stage for 3D confocal imaging

Digital Inverted Fluorescent Microscope

AMG EVOS FL

Inverted Fluorescent Microscope

Leica DMI 6000 with DFC300FX Camera

Synchronized Video Fluorescent Microscope

LABSMITH SVM340

LABSMITH HVS448

Spectroscopy

Fluorescence Spectroscopy

HORIBA JOBIN YVON FLUOROLOG-3 SPECTROFLUOROMETER

CD Spectropolarimeter

JASCO J-810 SPECTROPOLARIMETER

Mass Spectroscopy

Quadrupole and Orbitrap LC-MS/MS

Thermo Fisher Scientific Q-Exactive

Finnigan LTQ linear ion trap mass spectrometer

SPEEDVAC

THERMO SCIENTIFIC SPEEDVAC

Savant SPD 111 P1

chromatography

Thermo Fisher Scientific Accela Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography

Thermofisher Scientitic Easy-nano-Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography

  • Nano UHLC using low flow rate and low sample consumption for high sensitivity workflows
  • Integrated and exchangeable columns
  • Interfaces directly to the Q-exactive mass spectrometer via a nano-ESI source

Thermo Dionex Integrion High Pressure Ion Chromatography

  • Integrion HPIC
  • AS-DV Autosampler

Thermo Scientific UltiMate 3000RSLC Nano Liquid Chromatography

  • WPS-3000 autosampler
  • NCS-3500RS nano flow pump

Dionex UltiMate 3000 RS rapid separation High Pressure Liquid Chromatography

  • WPS-3000 autosampler
  • HPG-3400RS pump
  • VWD-3400RS Photon Diode Array Detector
  • TCC-3000RS Thermostat controlled Column Compartment

Thermo Trace 1310 Gas Chromatography

  • High-performance quadrupole precursor selection with high resolution, accurate-mass (HR/AM) Orbitrap detection
  • Accela UHPLC for high-flow applications

Refrigeration

20.3 cu.ft. Thermo Scientific general lab refrigerator

Availability

Freezers

THERMO SCIENTIFIC LAB FREEZER

THERMO SCIENTIFIC ULTRA LOW LAB FREEZER

Ice Maker

SCOTSMAN FLAKE ICE MAKER

Sterilization

Autoclaves

STERIS 250

Heidolph Tuttnauer 3850 EP

Electrophoresis

PROTEAN i12 IEF system

ELECTROPHORESIS CHEMBERS (SDS-PAGE)

BLOTTING SYSTEM

CHEMIDOC MP IMAGER

The ChemiDoc MP system is a full-feature instrument for gel or western blot imaging.