Biology Department Equipment

Facilities in the Department include the following equipment (incomplete list):

  • UV-Visible spectrophotometers (7)
  • scintillation counter
  • microcentrifuges (3)
  • low-speed (2) and ultracentrifuges
  • electrophoretic equipment
  • electroporation unit
  • DNA sequencing equipment
  • lyophilizer/vacuum concentrator
  • polymerase chain reaction units (2)
  • ultracold (-70 C) freezer
  • polygraphs (3)
  • oscilloscopes (4)
  • biological safety hood
  • lame photometer
  • sterile CO2 cell incubator
  • fluorescence microscopes (2)
  • video imagining/analysis system
  • transmission and scanning electron microscopes
  • environmental chambers
  • cold room
  • autoclave
  • dark room/developing equipment
  • Millipore pure water system
  • osmometer
  • water baths (shaking and non-shaking)
  • animal room for small rodents
  • greenhouse
  • herbarium
  • vertebrate collection
  • shell collections
  • ecological field equipment
  • Microscopes for students use in labs

    Other equipment available in or shared with Chemistry Dept:

  • additional UV/Visible spectrophotometers
  • atomic absorption spectrophotometer
  • HPLC with UV and RI detectors
  • FITC IR spectrophotometer
  • fluorescence spectrophotometer
  • refrigerated chromatography cabinet
  • NMR
  • Raman spectrometer