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The Physiology Course has very generous support of loaner equipment from several companies. This list provides a partial list of this equipment. In addition, the Physiology Course owns various standard equipment for biochemistry/molecular biology research. The microscopy equipment available at the course is more advanced than most university facilities, providing students with opportunities for learning many modes of imaging and using the most advanced equipment available in the world. We also had loans of many other advanced equipment as well. We thank the many participating vendors for their support of our course.
Equipment available in the course in 2010:
- Nikon: 4 fully motorized research microscopes, including 3 laser illuminated Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) illuminators
- Zeiss: 2 fully motorized research microscopes, including a laser illuminated Yokogawa spinning disk confocal
- Andor: 2 laser based Yokogawa spinning disk confocal microscope systems (equipped with photo bleach [FRAP] and photo activation [PA] galvo scan head), 5 EMCCD and 1 interline digital CCD camera
- Olympus: 2 fully motorized research microscopes, including a Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) illuminator
- Photometrics: 2 EMCCD and 2 interline digital CCD camera
- Molecular Devices: Metamorph software and IXM Widefield High Content Screening System
- The MathWorks: MATLAB software for image data analysis
- Hamamatsu: 1 interline CCD digital camera
- Chroma Technologies: dichroic filter sets
- Semrock: dichroic filter sets
- Eppendorf: microinjection system
- Veeco: Catalyst AFM
- Bioptechs: stage heating chambers
- Tokai Hit: stage top incubator
- Sutter Instruments: shutters and filter wheels
- Applied Scientific Instumentation: 6 XY linear encoded automated stages
- AMG: Evos fl fluorescence scope
- Nevtek: ASI 400 Air stream Incubator
- Invitrogen: The Countess automated cell counter
- Pathology Devices: LiveCell stage top incubation system
- Oko Labs: stage top incubator
- Warner Instruments: stage heating chambers
The course also had access to a Zeiss LSM5 PASCAL confocal, a Zeiss LSM510 scanning confocal, and a Zeiss laser microdissection and optical tweezer microscope system.
Rob Phillips built an optical trap microscope with his students.
Dan Fletcher built a vesicle encapsulation system with his students.
The course purchased a 3 terabyte server, and all microscopic images/movies are stored on the server directly from microscope work stations. The server also allows students and faculty to access data after returning to their host institutions from the MBL.
For biochemistry, we had an ISS fluorometer and a kinetic mixer from TgK Scientific. Beckman contributed a spectrophotometer. The course received loaner centrifuges from Sorvall, Beckman, Eppendorf and IEC. Applied Biosystems loaned PCR machines.
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