Facilities

Our lab consists of roughly 1,200 square feet of newly-renovated space on the second floor of Goergen Hall with a dedicated microscopy room, cell culture room, fly sorting/handling room, and a wet lab & molecular biology space.

Cell Culture Room

• Biosafety cabinets (4 ft and 6 ft) 1300 Series A2 (Thermo Fisher)
• CO2 cell culture incubators Stericycle i160 (ThermoFisher)
• Refrigerated centrifuge Eppendorf 5804R
• Cell counter Countess 3 
• Mettler Toledo analytical balance 
• Inverted Olympus CK40 optical microscope 

Microscopy Lab

• Andor Dragonfly 302 high speed spinning disc confocal microscope with TIRF and laser ablation/activation capabilities on a Nikon Ti-Eclipse Epifluorescence microscope with two Andor Sona sCMOS cameras
• Nikon Ts2R-Fl fluorescence inverted microscope (filters for GFP, Texas red, and Alexa 633) and Moment sCMOS camera
• Fluorescence stereoscope Leica M205 FCA with filters for mCherry, GFP and CY3 and Leica K5 sCMOS camera

Wet Lab

• Microbiological incubators Isoterm S8919 and Heratherm S8920 (ThermoFisher) 
• Incubator-shaker Excella E24 (New Brunswick) 
• Benchtop microcentrifuges (Eppendorf)
• Digital balances (Mettler Toledo)
• Ultra-low temperature freezer Cryocube -86C (Eppendorf)
• Nanodrop OneC (ThermoFisher) 
• T100 thermal cycler (BioRad)
• Elga Purelab Flex water purification system (Veolia)

Fly Work

• Percival TE36VL incubators with temperature, light, and humidity control 
• Dissecting Stereoscopes Leica S9E, Zeiss Stemi 508 with Axiocam 208 camera
• Fly sorting stations