Instrumentation

Major equipment capabilities at CBME include:
  • a separate microscopy room that houses upright and inverted fluorescence microscopes, and a Zeiss LSM 510 confocal scanning laser microscope (2 laser/4 color)
  • Accuri C6 analyzing flow cytometer and a three-laser BD FACSVantage flow cytometer
  • Molecular Devices SpectraMax M5 fluorescence plate reader equipped with emission and excitation monochromators and 384-well plate reading capability.
  • Other equipment includes a Biacore X-100 surface plasmon resonance instrument
  • Perkin-Elmer UV-VIS spectrophotometer
  • two PTI QuantaMaster fluorimeters, one with lifetime measurement capability
  • Aviv 410 circular dichroism spectrometer
  • Molecular Imaging atomic force microscope
  • Raman instrumentation including a Horiba 750M spectrometer with visible and near-infrared laser excitation sources and LN-CCD detector
  • Thermoelectric FTIR spectrometer equipped with surface reflectance measurement capability
  • Malvern Zetasizer zeta potential instrument
  • spectroscopic ellipsometer
  • rf reactor for plasma polymerization
  • electrosprayer, static and dynamic light scattering detectors
  • Langmuir trough with fluorescence microscopy
  • suite of commercial and custom made fluorescence spectroscopy instrumentation
  • AKTA FPLC
  • Agilent 1100 HPLC
  • service-center (fee based) Waters ultra-performance convergence chromatography/mass spectroscopy system
  • custom 3D bioprinters and a regular 3D printer
  • electrospinners
  • servohydraulic test frame
  • high resolution motion capture system
  • high strength printer (Kevlar, fiberglass, carbon fiber, etc.)