Biology Department Equipment List

  • Bausch and Lomb and Reichert-Jung binocular microscopes
  • Bausch and Lomb monocular microscopes
  • Leica binocular dissecting microscopes
  • Bausch and Lomb binocular dissecting microscopes
  • Leitz research microscope (camera, fluorescence, phase contrast, and bright field optics)
  • Leitz research microscope with fluorescence and bright field optics
  • Five Bausch and Lomb research microscopes with phase contrast and bright field optics
  • AO Spencer research microscope
  • Olympus CK2 inverted microscope
  • Perkin Elmer model 480 Thermocycler
  • GIBCO-BRL model S2 DNA sequencing apparatus with model 4001 power supply
  • UVP model TM-10 transilluminator
  • Stratagene model 2400 UV crosslinker
  • VWR model 2005 low temperature incubator
  • Sigma model 4K10 and 3K12 refrigerated centrifuges Oxygen Analyzer for Physiology
  • Several sizes of horizontal agarose gel electrophoresis chambers
  • Large UV transilluminator
  • Polaroid camera and hoods for photodocumentation
  • Precision Scientific GCT thermocycler
  • 17 cu. ft Revco Ultimate ultra low temperature freezer
  • Miles Tissue Tek cryostat
  • Bio Rad mini Protean II vertical gel system
  • Eight IBM 486 PCs for data acquisition and analysis in teaching laboratories
  • Five EKG and EEG machines
  • Five Spirometers
  • Black and white high resolution televideo microscope projection system
  • Color televideo microscope projection system
  • Greenhouse
  • Two Animal housing facilities
  • Two Sorvall RT6000B refrigerated centrifuge
  • Floor model refrigerated high speed centrifuge
  • Table model high speed centrifuge
  • Virtis lyophilizer
  • High performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC)
  • Spectra Physics fraction collector
  • Environmental chamber
  • Two Laminar flow hoods
  • Cell harvester
  • TM Analytic Delta 300 liquid scintillation counter
  • Lane herbarium drier
  • Two Lane herbariums