UMBTC Lap

The UMBTC laboratory is 740 square feet and is made up of a cell culture room, wet lab space, student work space, molecular lab, dark room and storage room - see below for a list of equipment housed in our laboratory.

Equipment found within our laboratory space

  • Class II laminar flow biological safety cabinets
  • Dual water-jacketed CO2 incubators
  • Variable oxygen CO2 incubator
  • Liquid nitrogen cryostorage container
  • S3e cell sorter 
  • Ultracentrifuge
  • Neon transfection system
  • ​Inverted and compound microscope
  • Water baths
  • Chemical hood
  • Precision balance
  • pH meter
  • Table top centrifuges
  • FPLC chromatography system
  • NanoDrop 
  • PCR thermocycler, standard and rapid
  • Real time PCR thermocycler
  • LightCycler 
  • Multimode plate readers (luminescence, fluorescence, absorption)
  • Freezers (-80 and -20)
  • Refrigerators
  • Electrophoresis equipment
  • Western blot apparatus
  • Darkroom
  • Microtomes
  • EVOS M7000 Imaging system.

Accessible equipment outside our laboratory space DNA sequencer

  • DNA sequencer
  • LightCycler 96
  • Confocal microscope
  • Inverted fluorescent microscope 
  • High speed centrifuges
  • Water purification system
  • Autoclaves
  • Analytical balances