Facilities
Department of Biochemistry
Imaging Facilities
- Leica TCS SP2 Confocal Microscope
- Zeis LCS Confocal Microscope/Confor 3 system
- Olympus BX50 fluorescence microscope and SPOT RT imaging software
- Olympus 1X81 inverted fluorescene microscope & Soft imaging system
- Scanning and transmission electron microscopes
Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics Facility
- Four MS instruments (Bruker)
- MALDI Tof/Tof ultraflex3
- Ion trap HCT ultra PTM Discovery
- MicrO-TofQ
- Ion trap Esquire 6000
- Dionex LC systems
(4)
- Spotting robot for MALDI plates
- Gel cutting Robot
- Computers, servers, software
Cell Biology facilities
- Plant and mammalian cell culture
- Monoclonal antibody production
- Malaria culture
- Bacterial, fungal & insect culture facilities
- Cryostorage facilities
- Flow cytometer
- Sysmex cell counter CDA-500
- Various shakers (incl. Multitron stacks), incubators & growth chambers
Protein & Molecular biology
- Various protein and nucleic acid electrophoresis apparatus (multiple units)
- IPG phor isoelectric focussing system (Amersham Pharmacia)
- Various PCR machines
- Roche Light Cycler 480
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Chromatography
- HPLC (Varian and Waters); uv/vis photodiode array detector
- HPLC HP 1090 Microbore
- GC (Hewlett-Packard)
- HPLC Beckman System Gold
- HPLC/FPLC BioSystems 2000
- HPLC HP#1200 (Agilent)
- FPLC (Pharmacia)
- AKTA (Pharmacia)
Spectrophotometry
- Cary 118C and Cary IE uv-vis, Gilford 240
- Perkin Elmer Luminescence Spectrometer, LS 50B
- Hitachi 650-10S fluorimeter
- Packard Lumicount Plate Reader
- SpectraMax 250 Plate Reader
- SpectraMax M2 Plate Reader
- Zetasizer dynamic light scattering particle analyser
- NANODROP 3300 Fluorospectrometer
Radiochemistry
- Wallac & LKB Scintillation Counters
- Molecular Dynamics Phosphorimager
- Typhoon Trio DIGE & Phosphorimager
Gel Documentation System
- Syngene digital chemiluminscent detectors (2)
- Video camera, video printer and software
Ultracentrifugation
- Beckman model TL100 benchtop centrifuge
- Preparative Beckman model L ultracentrifuge
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In collaboration with the Department of Chemistry, a range of equipment for physical-organic studies including ir spectrophotometers, data processing equipment and several NMR systems including a high-resolution multi-nuclear system is also available.
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