Laboratory Equipment

The School of Natural Resources  and the Environment is home to several specialized lab spaces and an impressive inventory of equipment and instruments to support high-level research. The following list represents the kind of equipment that students, faculty, and researchers have at their disposal to facilitate their experimental work. Individual Ph.D. and master's students who are conducting specific kinds of research and have received appropriate training and permission, may have access to this array of specialized equipment and instrumentation.

• Several dissecting microscopes
• Eppendorf 5804 high speed centrifuges for micro tubes (0.5-2.0 mls), standard tubes (2.0-50.0 mls), and 96-well plates
• Eppendorf 5415D high speed centrifuge for micro tubes (0.5-2.0 mls)
• Eppendorf Mastercycler PCR machines for amplification of DNA (96-well standard and 96-well temperatrue gradient)
• Fisher FB300 Electrophoresis power supply and gel boxes equipment for separation of DNA fragments by size
• Kodak EDAS 290 Digital Imaging System for visualizing DNA in gels
• Barnstead Nanopure Diamond and Barnstead B-Pure water purification system
• Several Macintosh and Windows PCs for genetic data analysis
• QIAGEN vacuum manifold for concentrating DNA/PCR samples
• UVP Lightbox with UV and standard fluorescent light capability
• Blak-Ray UV floodlights
• VWR incubators
• Mettler AG104 standard balance (0.05g to 310g))
• Mettler PB3002S standard balance (0.5g to 3100g)
• Thermolyne Bio Cane 20 liquid nitrogen dewar for storage of samples
• Dremel drill for processing of bone and tooth samples
• Shimadzu TOC/TN Analyzer with ASI automated sampler
• Westco SmartChem Discrete Analyzer
• Denver Instrument Analytical balance (4-5pt delta range)
• Cahn microbalance 6 pt balance (0-200 mg) (needs calibration)
• Fisher Isotemp Premium oven
• Thermolyne Programmable Muffle Furnace (1.6 cu ft capacity)
• Millipore Q Gradient water purification system (18 mOhm water)
• 6 ISCO water collection samplers
• Decagon Ceptometer
• CONVIRON MODEL ATC13 environmental growth chamber with additive light and humidity
• Drying oven
• Whole Plant Chamber System with LI-7500 Open Path Gas Analyzer
• Chromatography Equipment (for Separation of Natural Products)
  • Analytical High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) equipped with an auto-sampler, Photo Diode Array (PDA) and Evaporative Light Scattering (ELS) detectors
  • Preparative High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) equipped with a Photo Diode Array (PDA) detector
• Spectroscopic Equipment (for Structure Elucidation of Natural Products)
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) (400 MHz) spectrometer equipped with proton, carbon, and all two-dimensional spectral measurement facilities
  • Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) System equipped with an auto-sampler
  • Fourier Transform Infra-red (FT-IR) Spectrometer
  • Ultraviolet (UV) Spectrophotometer
• Equipment for Biological Work
  • Flow Cytometer
  • Fluorescence Microscope equipped with a Digital Camera
  • Gel Electrophoresis and Documentation Systems
• Equipment for Microbiological Work
  • Large Orbital Shaker Incubators
  • Modular Benchtop 14 L Fermenter (equipped with computer to add acid/base and anti-foam)