Research Equipment
Available in Dr. Bou-Abdallah's Lab
Thermochemical Equipment
Calorimetry Sciences Corporation (CSC) Model 4200, Isothermal Titration Calorimeter.
Low Volume (175 uL) NanoITC from TA Instruments.
Small Volume (750 uL) NanoDSC from TA Instruments.
Spectrophotometry – Rapid Kinetics – and Spectrofluorimetery Equipment
Bio Cary 50 and Cary 60 UV-Vis Spectrophotometers, with QNW Peltier temperature control accessory (Agilent Technologies)
HI-TECH SFA-20 Stopped-flow accessory with J&M rapid diode array spectrophotometer for monitoring rapid reactions by UV-visible spectroscopy.
Two Cary Eclipse Spectrofluorometers (Agilent Technologies)
Varioskan LUX Multimode Microplate Reader (Thermo Scientific)
Capillary Electrophoresis System
(CE 7100) from Agilent Technologies
Chromatography Equipment:
ÄKTA go protein purification system (Cytiva)
Biochemical Equipment
MaxQ™ HP Incubated Tabletop Orbital Shaker
Thermo Scientific™ Sorvall™ Legend™ X1 Centrifuge Series
Fisherbrand Model 120 Sonic Dismembrator/sonicator and Sound Enclosure
Capillary Electrophoresis apparatus
Biorad- PAGE running apparatus
DNA Electrophoresis Instruments
Azure 280 Western Blot equipment (Azure Biosystems)
Fisherbrand IsoTemp Digital Dry Bath
Fisherbrand IsoTemp General Purpose Deluxe Water Bath, Capacity (5 L)
Applied Biosystems MiniAmp Thermal Cycler
Others:
Labconco FreeZone 2.5L (-50 deg. C) Benchtop Freeze Dryer
EPU354 Dissolved Oxygen isoPod™ with USB, OM-4 Oxygen meter, and pH-stat apparatus equipped with custom-made special design microcells and microelectrodes for both aerobic and anaerobic measurements.
Update Instruments System 1000 Rapid-freeze Quench apparatus for the analysis of rapid reactions
Standard refrigerator with a freezer and a large Liquid Nitrogen Dewar for protein storage.
Two 4 °C and -20 °C refrigerators and freezers
Two High Precision Analytical Balances