Laboratory and Equipment
The combination of multidimensional laboratory equipment and computer technology resources provides the necessary tools for state-of-the-art discovery.
Laboratory
The Grammas Research Laboratory occupies over 1700 sq. ft. and includes a tissue culture facility on the fourth floor of the TTUHSC. A 100 sq. ft. walk in cold room is adjacent to these labs. There is an extremely sufficient collection of equipment needed for brain microvessel isolation, biochemical assays, and many other age-related neurological analysis procedures.
Equipment
- Two 6 Foot Germ Free Hoods
- 6 Double and Single Chamber Form incubators
- 4 Fridges/Freezers
- 2 Perkin Elmer ABI Prism 377 DNA sequencer machine capable of running 96 or 36 well acrylamide gels, contain ABI 377-96 well collection, Gene scan 3.1, Genotyper 2.5, Sequencing analysis 3.3, sequencer 3.0 and diagnostic programs
- Animal Facility-The TTUHSC has a centralized AALAC accredited animal care facility that contains approximately 25,000 square feet.
- 3 Biosafety Hoods
- 7 Millipore filtration devices
- Cornelius Ice Machine
- Castle Steam Sterilizer
- Pharmacia FPLC fraction collectors
- Beckman GS-6 and Sovali super M-T table top centrifuges
- Refrigerated Centrifuge
- DU 640 Beckman and BIORAD spectrophotometer
- Polytrone Tissue Homogenizer
- New Brunswick scientific Innova 400 incubator shaker for plasmid prep.
- Photomicroscope with fluorescent and darkfield
- ZEISS photomicroscope MC 80