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Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory, 650 sq. ft. + 75 sq. ft. shower/change room. Negative air flow,
double-door pass-through autoclave and ceiling mounted UV lights. Major
equipment includes 4 class II biological safety cabinets, FACS,
4-vessel fermenter, Victor 2 Microplate multi-label reader,
colorimeter, electroporator, 2 HEPA-filtered CO2 incubators, reach-in
incubator with orbital shaker, refrigerated tabletop centrifuge,
microcentrifuge, phase-contrast/fluorescence microscope with photo
attachment, Inhalation Exposure System, tissue homogenizer, cell
disrupter, cup-horn ultrasonicator.
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Biosafety Level 2 Laboratory
, 485 sq. ft. for cell culture and microbiology, containing 4 class II
biological safety cabinets, clean bench, Biomek 2000 lab automation
workstation, gradient thermocycler, shaking water bath, 2 CO2
incubators, shaker-incubator, refrigerated centrifuges, colorimeter,
microscope and inverted microscope, cup-horn ultrasonicator, DNA and
protein gel electrophoresis units, digital camera and software, gel
image documentation and analysis system are located in the chemistry
lab.
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Prep/Autoclave Room
, 180 sq. ft. serving both BSL-2 and BSL-3 laboratories with, Millipore Synthesis A-10 water system, glassware washer.
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Chemistry Lab
, 686 sq. ft. laboratory with state-of-the art equipment for the
isolation and biochemical analysis of natural products from complex
biological matrices and for synthetic medicinal chemistry. Contains two
6-foot fume hoods, vacuum pumps, analytical balances, stirring/hot
plates, rotary evaporators, Bohdan blocks for parallel synthesis and
SPE purification. Besides HPLC and UV-VIS spectrophotometry, a variety
of preparative chromatography equipment including DCCC, HSCCC, GPC,
VLC, TLC, MPLC, and GC are available. Vacuum and rotary evaporation, as
well as gas stream evaporation. For FT-IR, EI/CI/ESI/APCI-[LC/GC]MS,
and NMR (300-800 MHz) spectroscopic characterization, our laboratory
has access to shared equipment. For data analysis and data mining
applications, spectroscopic and image workstations are available.
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Office/Computer
: Suite composed of two 150 sq. ft. offices, a 202 sq. ft. conference
room and a 379 sq. ft. open post-doc/computer area. Seventeen Pentium
III-IV computers, Linux-based RAID file server, printers and scanner,
university-wide, automated tape backup system, overhead video,
multimedia presentation projectors, and department-wide wireless
network access.
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Animal Facility
: The Biological Resources Laboratory
at UIC is comprised of 104,000 sq. ft. on three levels. This includes
43 animal rooms for rodents and lagomorphs, each in a suite
configuration with its own air handling system. Space is available for
projects on an "as needed basis". The ITR has been assigned a dedicated
room in the facility.
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