Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyThe Biochemistry department maintains a variety of shared instrumentation in addition to a walk-in cold room, a darkroom with automatic X-ray film developer, and autoclaves. Common equipment rooms within the department contain shaking incubators, centrifuges, scintillation counter and ultra low temperature freezers. A gel documentation system, UV irradiation machine and two PCR machines are maintained in a Biomedical Research Institute core room. A Storm PhosphorImager for autoradiography and fluorescence detection, a BiaCore protein interaction detection instrument, a stopped-flow spectrofluorimeter, and a steady-state and lifetime fluorometer are maintained in a separate common equipment room. The department also maintains a shared cell culture facility.
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