Equipment and facilities in the Department of Biology and
Biomedical Sciences are designed for student and faculty research and classroom
and laboratory teaching. The all-glass, open design
makes for collegiality and cooperation while maintaining views of the Atlantic
Ocean. Specialized rooms for cell
culture, genetics, microscopy, electrophysiology, aquaria, protein and nucleic
acid research and dissection of preserved specimens enhance the experience and
productivity in the department.
Laboratories and prep
rooms are furnished with the following instruments, all of which are available
for research and for course lab work. All students who are properly trained may
use the equipment, which is very unusual and is a highlight of the biology
program. In addition to this equipment, the department has use of core research
facilities at Brown University, the University of Rhode Island and Roger
Williams University as part of the INBRE and EPSCoR consortium.
Equipment
includes:
- Fully
operational greenhouse
- Two
small powerboats
- Two safety hoods - Class II Type B2
- Mobile
computer lab for 12 with statistical software and molecular modeling packages
- Nikon 80Ti flourescence microscope
- Beckman-Coulter Z1 particle counter
- Hope Micromax film developer
- LiCOR 4300 DNA analyzer
- Two TMC vibration tables and faraday cages
- Axon 2B amplifier
- Digidata1332 A/D converter
- Hamilton Thorne computer assisted sperm analyzer (CASA)
- Nanoliter 2000 nanoinjector
- Ziess inverted microscope
- Nanodrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer
- BIOMATE 5 spectrophotometer
- MJ Research PTC-200 peltier thermal cycler
- BTX Harvard Apparatus precision pulse-electroporator
- Molecular Devices Spectra Max M2 fluorescence/absorbance
microplate reader
- Gel Logic 440 imaging system
- BIO-RAD IQ5-Multicolor real-time PCR detection system
- CS Optima Max Ultracentrifuge
- Barnstead-Mega-pure system-MP-12A
- Supplies for wading, dredging
- Supplies for bird collecting and banding
- Biopac data acquisition systems and associated probes
- Pasco GLX interface devices
- Bench top 5804 R centrifuge
- Centra MP4R-IEC-refrigerated centrifuge
- CO2 incubators
- UV cross-linker
- MAXQ4000 shaker incubator
- HB-1D hybridizer oven