FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT
MGEL consists of laboratory and office space on the 4th floor of Dorman Hall, a building on the main campus (Starkville, MS) of Mississippi State University.
Some of the items of equipment that are vital to the work being performed at MGEL are shown below (click on images to enlarge).
Genetix QPixII genomics robot for clone picking, library replication, and macroarray production |
AutoGen AutoGenPrep 960 robot for automated
high-throughput plasmid/BAC isolation from clones grown in 96-well microtiter
plates |
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Agilent diode-array UV/visible spectrophotometer
(shown with circulating water bath and attached water-jacketed 'Cot'
column) |
Bio-Rad DRIII pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
system |
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Olympus BX51 fluorescence microscope
with digital camera |
Revco -85°C Ultima II freezers with
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Genetix QFill2 automated microtiter plate
fillers |
Revco (and other) -20°C freezers |
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MJ Research PT-100 Thermal Cycler and Life Technologies Cell-Porator |
Laminar flow hoods |
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Misonix Sonicator 3000 |
GeneMachines Hydroshear DNA shearing apparatus |
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Incubator-shaker |
37°C incubators |
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VWR chromatography refrigerators |
Orion Research 611 pH meters |
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Mettler-Toledo (and other) balances |
Water distillation apparatus |
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Microcentrifuges |
Standard chemical hood |
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Eppendorf vacuum centrifuge |
Alpha-Innotech gel documentation system |
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NanoDrop spectrophotometer |
Sterilizer |
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Centrifuges (very ugly) |
Dish carts |
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Vortexers |
Water baths |
