Major equipment:

• Matrix PlateMate 2x2 robotic system for automated microvolume pipetting, including plate replication and reformatting, reagent addition, serial dilution, and reaction setup;
• BioRad BioOdyssey Calligrapher benchtop microarray fabrication system for printing of small- to medium- batches of microarrays on standard slides, on membranes or in microplates;
• Tecan HS-4800 automated hybridization and wash station for processing of multiple microarrays under controlled conditions;
• Tecan LS-Reloaded microarray scanner with capabilities for multi-slide and microplate scanning and up to three dye chemistries simultaneously in red, green and blue wavelength ranges;

Other equipment in the core facility includes a Bio-Rad iQ5 Real Time PCR system with 5-color detection capabilities, an Agilent eBioanalyzer for QC of nucleic acid and protein samples, a NanoDrop UV-Vis spectrophotometer for quantitation of nucleic acids in extremely small sample volumes, and ThermoElectron and Agilent hybridization ovens, carousels, and chambers for manual hybridization of glass-slide microarrays.

Staff: Mr. Joshua Newton, 273A Cameron Applied Research Center