State-of-Art Equipment
Cell Biology | Cell culture, incubators |
Safety cabinets | |
Cell harvester (receptors) | |
Receptor cloning | |
Trans-membrane signalling | |
Plate readers | |
Muscle baths | |
Centrifuges | |
Spectrophotometers | |
HPLC and FPLC | |
Histology and immunoflorescence | |
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Molecular Biology | DNA synthesizer |
DNA sequencer | |
Phosphorimager | |
PCR | |
Bacterial incubators | |
Autoclaves | |
Ultracentrifugation (CsCl gradients for plasmids) | |
Darkroom facilities | |
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Proteomics | Peptide Synthesizers (ABI and ACT) |
Peptide sequencers | |
Amino acid analyzer | |
Quodrupole mass spectrometer | |
Electronic CD | |
Vibrational CD with FTIR | |
HPLC | |
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Bioinformatics | Silicon Graphics and Digital Alpha workstations |
20 node Alpha CPU-based cluster | |
80 node AMD Athlon CPU-based cluster | |
Molecular modelling | |
Molecular dynamics | |
DNA and protein sequence analysis | |
Sequence and structural data bases | |
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Physiology and Neurophysiology | Single cell microelectrode recording |
Patch clamp recording | |
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Electron Microscopy | CM10 TE microscope with analytical electron |
JEOL 840 SE microscope | |
Reichart ultracut microtome E | |
Critical point dryer and sputter coater | |
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Confocal Microscopy | Zeiss LSM 510 NLO META multi-photon confocal microscope |
Coherent Chameleon XR Ti:Sapphire IR laser | |
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Optical Methods | 10W Nd-YAG CW laser |
Optical Stretcher | |
Olympus IX-70 inverted microscope | |
