Burt Hall laboratories:
Common use FACSCaliber 4-color flow cytometer/cell sorter facility obtained via an NSF Major Research Equipment grant in 2001, and a 80o C freezer [Flow cytometer information]. Potential users can contact the Sherrs by phone or email for information about training and cost of running samples.
Current and potential users of the COAS flow cytometer can review a manual on its operation: FCM Manual
A Portable FlowCAM VS IV from Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc.
An image analysis system consisting of a Cooke Sensicam QE CCD camera with Image Pro Plus software, mated to an Olympus BX61 epifluorescence microscope.
A Zeiss Jena inverted microscope with transmitted and epifluorescence light
A Zeiss Universal epifluorescence microscope
Weniger Hall laboratory:
Basic equipment for molecular biology techniques: an Applied Biosystems Geneamp 2700, 96-well thermal cycler, a CBS Scientific DGGE-2001 denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis system, an AlphaImager 2200 digital imaging system, a Savant SC110A Speed Vac, and a Eppendorf 5415C centrifuge. In addition, our Weniger lab contains a large new hood that is rated for radioisotope use, two Turner Designs fluorometers, a Sigma B-BRAUN 2K15 refrigerated centrifuge, balances, pipettors, filtration rigs, vacuum pumps, three temperature controlled water baths, two temperature controlled incubators, refrigerators, -20°C and –80o C freezers, and three 5-liter liquid nitrogen shippers. We have a microautoradiography station set up in the temperature-controlled walk-in incubator in our Weniger laboratory.
Computing: PC and MacIntosh computers, a Sun Ultra-10 workstation, plus access to the comprehensive software and hardware available as part of the COAS Unix computer system, one of the best equipped in the nation.
We have access to a Wallac System 1400 liquid scintillation counter in COAS. A small research vessel, the Elakha, is stationed at the Hatfield Marine Science Center on the coast and is available for offshore sampling on an hourly fee basis. The Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology on campus at OSU operates analytical instruments for molecular genetics research, including gene sequencers, in its Central Services Laboratory (website address: www.cgrb.orst.edu) The Center has recently upgraded its gene sequencing capabilities with a capillary array electrophoresis (CAE) instrument. The Center also offers support in analysis of genetic data obtained from the sequencers. The Sherrs are officially affiliated with the Center and can make use of these services.
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