FACILITIES

The research laboratory of Dr. Bursac has 750 sq. ft. of general laboratory space, including a wet chemistry room, a cell culture room, and an optical mapping room. Facilities are also available for animal procedures.

 

General Equipment

• 6 ft. tissue culture hood

• 4 ft. tissue culture hood

• 2 water jacketed CO₂ incubators

• 2 orbital shakers

• 2 refrigerators

• 2 freezers

• -20°C freezer

• Liquid nitrogen tank

• Nanopure water purification system

• Western blotting setup

• Immunostaining station

• Refrigerated centrifuge

• Microcentrifuge

• Vacuum oven

• Digital hot plate

• 4 computers

• Wescor Vapor Pressure Osmometer

• Novascan PSD-UVT: Temperature Controlled UV Surface Decontamination System

• Biorad SmartSpec Plus Spectrophotometer

Optical Mapping Equipment

• 3' x 5' optical table

• Nikon TE2000U microscope

• Variety of filter cubes for fluorescence imaging

• Sensicam QE (High quality low noise fluorescence camera)

• IPLab spectrum image acquisition and analysis software

• 61-channel custom built system

• High resolution 504 channel Photodiode system from Red Shirt Imaging adapted for fast data acquisition rates with Microstar A/D board DAP5400

• Tungsten halogen lamp equipped with liquid light guide and electronic shutter used for illumination

Dr. Bursac also shares a spin-coating machine and UV illuminator with Dr. Chilkoti's lab, for basic microfabrication work.