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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

 
 

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

 
 

Olympus BX51 fluorescence microscope with digital camera

Revco -85°C Ultima II freezers with
power backup (generator and CO2) and alarm systems (auto-dial and audible)

 
 

Genetix QFill2 automated microtiter plate fillers

Revco (and other) -20°C freezers

 
 

MJ Research PT-100 Thermal Cycler and Life Technologies Cell-Porator

Laminar flow hoods

 
 

Misonix Sonicator 3000

GeneMachines Hydroshear DNA shearing apparatus

 
 

Incubator-shaker

37°C incubators

 
 

VWR chromatography refrigerators

Orion Research 611 pH meters

 
   

Mettler-Toledo (and other) balances

Water distillation apparatus

 
 

Microcentrifuges

Standard chemical hood

 
 

Eppendorf vacuum centrifuge

Alpha-Innotech gel documentation system

 
 

NanoDrop spectrophotometer

Sterilizer

 
 

Centrifuges (very ugly)

Dish carts

 
 

Vortexers

Water baths