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Resources & Equipment

These CNAST or Mellon College of Science resources are available for general use by CNAST members.

ABI 2720 PCR Thermal Cycler	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
ABI 310 Genetic Analyzer Capillary Electrophoresis System	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
ABI 3130xl Genetic Analyzer Capillary Electrophoresis System	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
ABI ViiA7 qPCR Machine	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Access to Modified DNA/RNA Sequences For DNA up to 35 mers and RNA up to 30 mers For incorporating modifications for which commercial specialty phosphoramidites are available (via GlenResearch)	Das Lab, MI 742 Contact: Subha Das
Agilent TapeStation For rapid gel electrophoresis and automated analysis of RNA and DNA abundance, size, and integrity	McManus Lab, MI 255 Contact: Joel McManus
AKTA Explorerer FPLC Liquid-phase Chromatography System	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Analytical and Semiprep HPLC	Achim Lab, MI 835/839 Contact: Catalina Achim
ASI MS-2000 Programmable Translation Stage	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Beaglehole Variable-Angle Ellopsometry System	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Beckman IC100	Murphy Lab Automation Suite, MBIC 1st floor Contact: Robert Murphy
Beckman-Coulter P-ACE MDQ Automated Capillary Electrophoresis Systems With UV, two-color LIF detection and photodiode array detection	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Biacore Surface Plasmon Resonance Instrument	Das Lab, MI 742 Contact: Subha Das
Bio-rad Gel Dryers Model 583	Das Lab, MI 742 Contact: Subha Das
Bio-Rad Protean Llxi Slab Gel Electrophoresis System	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Bruker Nanoscope V MultiMode AFM System	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Cary 300Bio UV-Vis Spectrophotometer With temperature control	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectometer With stopped-flow accessory, peltier multi-cell holder, and temperature control	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Cell Analyzer 88/640 lasers with 96-well plate sipper attachment Intellicyte/Accuri C6	Cytometry Center, MBIC 1st floor Contact: Yehuda Creeger
Cephied SmartCyclyer PCR workstation With 16 sample chambers and 4 channel optical detection	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Circular Dichroism	Center for Molecular Analysis, MI 555 Contact: Mark Bier
Coherent Optics QE Pro High-Performance Spectrometer	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Differential Scanning Calorimetry	Evilevitch Lab, WH 6409 Contact: Alex Evilevitch
Eppendorf 5415C Ultracentrifuge	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Eppendorf 5810R Ultracentrifuge	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Fluorescence Correlation Spectrometer Zeiss Confocor 3 Unit	Microscopy Facility, MBIC 2nd Floor Contact: Haibing Teng
Fluorescence Spectrometers Cary Bio, Equipped for melting curve analysis (2) Photon Technology Inc	Armitage Lab, MI 726 Contact: Bruce Armitage
Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter FACSVantage, 4 lasers (405, 488, 532, 640)	Cytometry Center, MBIC 1st floor Contact: Yehuda Creeger
Forte Bio Red Evanescent Surface Sensor	Washburn Lab, MI 814 Contact: Newell Washburn
Gel Electrophoresis Equipment For agarose and polyacrylamide gels - including large plates/gels – for gels 20cmx35cm Reserved for use with nucleic acids (no proteins)	Das Lab, MI 742 Contact: Subha Das
Gel Filtration Chromatography	Bruchez Lab Coldroom, MI 755 Contact: Marcel Bruchez
Gel/Culture Plate Scanner Typhoon 9700	Location TBD (2nd floor currently) Contact: Marcel Bruchez
Isothermal Titration Calorimetry	Rule Lab, MI 246 Contact: Gordon Rule
JASCO J-810 Circular Dichroism Spectrometer	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Jobin-Yvon Fluorolog-3 Florescence Spectrometer With TIRF accessory	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
KSV 5000 Langmuir-Blodgett Trough With dipping accessory, Wilhelmy plate, and surface potential accessory	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Labsmith Microflluidics Toolkit Programmable DC power supply and chip prototypes	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Malvern Zatasizer Nano Dynamic Light Scattering System	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Mass Spectrometer Q-TOF-ESI/APCI/Nanospray LCQ-ESI/APCI Ion Trap MALDI	Center for Molecular Analysis, MI 555 Contact: Mark Bier
Mermade 4 DNA/RNA Synthesizer (Bioautomation)	Das Lab, MI 742 Contact: Subha Das
Metamorph Imaging Software	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Nanodrop Scanning UV-vis Spectrophotometer For spectra with small sample (2-3 μL) volumes	Das Lab, MI 742 & Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Subha Das & Jim Schneider
Nicolet Magna-IR 560 IR Spectrophotometer With MCT and DTGS detection	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Nikon TE2000U Inverted Microscope With high-resolution CCD camera (Photometrics Quatrum EM) and integrated laser system with interlocks	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
NMR Spectrometers	Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research, MI 1st Floor Apply To Use Facilities
Ocean Optics QE Pro High-Performance Spectrometer	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Perkin Elmer Spectrum CT Imaging System & Surgical Suite IVIS/CT Small animal fluorescent/luminescent/CT imaging instrument	MI Vivarium
Point-Scanning Spectral Confocal Microscopes Zeiss 510 Meta 2x	Shared Imaging Facility, MBIC 2nd floor Contact: Haibing Teng
Potentiostat for Electrochemistry Measurements	Achim Lab, MI 835/839 Contact: Catalina Achim
Preparative Ultracentrifuge	MBIC Common Equipment Rm, 2nd floor Contact: Haibing Teng
Spectral Fluorescence Plate Reader Tecan Safire 2	MBIC, 2nd floor Contact: Haibing Teng
Spectral Fluorescence/Luminescence Plate Reader with Anisotropy Tecan M1000	Bruchez Lab, MI 755 Contact: Marcel Bruchez
SpectraMax M2 UV-Vis Fluorescence Microtiter Plate Reader System	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope with Live-Cell Apparatus	Shared Imaging Facility, MBIC 2nd floor Contact: Haibing Teng
Stopped flow UV Vis	Achim Lab, MI 835/839 Contact: Catalina Achim
Synergy H1 Hybrid Plate Reader System	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Teledyne Isco Comniflash Rf 200i Flash Chromatography System	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Tokai Hit Transparent Thermoplate Stage	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
UV Vis Spectrometers Cary 200 Cary 50 Cary 300, Equipped for melting curve analysis (2)	Armitage Lab, MI 726 Contact: Bruce Armitage
UVP Bio-DocIt Transilluminator With CCD Image Capture	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Waters Alliance 2690 Analytic HPLC System With heated column, PDA, fluorescence, and DLS detection	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider
Waters Delta 600 Semi-prep HPLC System With PDA detection and fraction collector	Shared Chemical Engineering Lab, DH 2203 Contact: Jim Schneider