Facilities in Grand Rapids, Downtown

Health Sciences Building

floor

Teaching lab: [pic]

Research space: [pic 2]

Student study / office space [pic]

Facilities:		 Equipment:
Chemical room- [pic]
      2 sonicators		 2 Sorval RC5C Plus high-speed centrifuges [pic]
1 Sorval Discovery 90SE ultracentrifuge
Radioisotope room-
      Beckman Scintillation counter
      2 Boekel Bambino hybridization ovens		 Leica CM3050 cryostat [pic]
Advanced Chemtech Apogee peptide synthesizer [pic]
Beckman Coulter DU-800 spectrophotometer
Darkroom-
      Kodak XOMAT film processing unit		 Agilent photodiode array spectrophotometer [pic]
Photon Technologies Inc. QM-7 T format fluorimeter [pic]
Microscope room- [pic]
      1 Olympus BX51 upright research
      scope w/DIC & fluorescence		 Biotronette Mark III environmental light chamber
4 Percival light chambers
2 Percival Arabidopsis growth chambers
      2 Olympus IX71 inverted research
      scope w/ DIC & fluorescence		 3 New Brunswick benchtop air shaking incubators [pic]
2 Innova stacked floor model shaking incubators [pic]
      2 Olympus SZX12 research
      fluorescent dissecting scopes		 2 Eppendorf refrigerated microfuges
13 Eppendorf microfuges
      2 digital cameras w/ analysis software 2 Eppendorf Gradient PCR machines
Autoclave room- [pic]
      2 large capacity autoclaves		 1 Eppendorf PCR machine
1 Eppendorf Electroporator
      1 Labprepco dishwasher Stratagene MX3000P Realtime PCR [pic]
      1 Labprepco dishdryer Bio-Rad Helios Gene gun
4 Tissue culture rooms- [pic]
      2 rooms (per room):  2 laminar flow hoods,
      2 water-jacketed CO2 incubators		 2 Eppendorf speed vacs
2 gel dryers
Kodak Gel Logic gel documentation system
      2 rooms (per room):  2 biosafety cabinets
      2 water-jacketed CO2 incubators		 Labconco lyophillizer
2 -80 freezers
      1 room:  Eppendorf microinjection system w/
      Zeiss Axiovert 200 microscope hook-up		 6 variable temp benchtop incubators
6 refrigerated water baths
Walk-in cold room [pic] 1 vacuum drying oven
Walk-in warm room [pic] Liquid nitrogen
  2 liquid nitrogen storage drawers
  1 explosion proof refrigerator / freezer
  1 inflammable refrigerator  / freezer
  4 -20 freezers [pic]
  5 refrigerator / freezers
  1 microplate reader
  2 micropipette pullers