Existing Shared Facility Resources

As a resource to researchers, OHIO has developed a number of shared use facilities and equipment. These resources are available to the university community. Note that not all campus research facilities are listed, as some may not be identified for shared use. Listed with a brief description are the facilities and equipment, by use, that are open to all faculty for general research access:

Animal Facility
Edison Biotechnology Institute Transgenic Mouse Facility: Transgenic mouse models are generated via pronuclear microinjection of DNA into fertilized mouse oocytes. Gene fragments for injections are constructed and prepared by faculty and provided to the microinjection staff for use in generating animals.

Bioanalysis
BioRad Gel Documentation System: The system uses a CCD camera to capture images in real time, with a motorized zoom lens for convenient zoom, focus, and iris adjustments.

DNA Analysis Facility: This facility is intended to further enrich research productivity by furnishing molecular data in a manner that is both cost efficient and time efficient. Automated DNA sequencing and molecular marker analysis is provided by the technologically advanced ABI Prism 310 Genetic Analyzer.

OI Analytical Total Organic Carbon Analyzer: The Model 1010 Wet Oxidation Total Organic Carbon Analyzer is an automated system for analyzing aqueous samples for total inorganic carbon (TIC) and total organic carbon (TOC).

Engineering
Dysart Woods: A 50-acre tract of old-growth oak forest , located in Belmont County , is the original forest of southeastern Ohio . The woods, located on the 455-acre Dysart Farm, are used for research and teaching by faculty and students in the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology.

Environmental and Plant Biology Greenhouse and Instructional Garden: The 4,320 square-foot greenhouse and 1,250 square-foot headhouse and storage area with the adjacent 1-acre garden provides a plant collection that serves the interest of the students, faculty, and staff of the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology as well as other interested academic units.

The West State Street Research Site: This research facility is home to studies of alternative methods of agriculture, plant methodolgy, mycology, medicinal botany, and several other research areas.

Information Technology
Applied Geographic Analysis Laboratory: This facility holds a range of computer hardware and software for applied research and special studies using advanced information technologies such as GIS, Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence.

Cartography Center: This center is a completely automated facility with some of the latest in cartographic, geographical information system (GIS), and global positioning system (GPS) hardware and software.

Macmobile Language Resource Center: A wireless Macmobile (consisting of 20 ibook laptops and an instructor station) furnishes students with a superior learning experience by integrating state-of-the-art multimedia technology into the general curriculum in an attempt to advance the development of students' language, writing, and critical thinking skills.

Scripps Survey Research Center: The research center is a phone survey facility with a network of 21 computers equipped with telephone interviewing software that allows researchers to conduct efficient, large-scale telephone surveys with random number generation, automatic dialing, on-screen scripting, data file compilation, and preliminary data analysis.

CITL IT Lab: This academic support facility available to faculty interested in instructional innovation houses all necessary equipment such as both PC and Mac computers, scanners, CD burners, and an audio/video station.

Spectroscopy
NMR Facility: The facility, for both spectrometer operation and off-line data processing studies, currently contains 3 NMR spot spectrometers: a Varian INOVA 500, a Varian VXR40005, and a Bruker AF-250.

Becton Dickinson FACSort (Flow Cytometer): This piece of equipment is capable of cell sorting, and completing up to a three color analysis. Cells can be sorted based on size, granularity, and/or fluorescent signal.

BIORAD QUANTITY ONE Fluor-S Multi Imager: Is a quantitative imaging system for capturing digital data from single and multi-color fluorescence, chemiluminescence, chemifluorescence and colorimetric samples.

Edwards Accelerator Lab: This facility within the Department of Physics and Astronomy is home to the only MeV ion accelerator in a college or university in Ohio . The accelerator currently supports a broad research program including nuclear astrophysics, nuclear structure, neutron imaging, and materials science.

HYDRA AA Automated Mercury Analyzer: Is a new, fully automated mercury analyzer based on COLD Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (CVAAS). It is designed to permit the determination of mercury in the low ppt to high ppb concentration range.

Malvern Mastersizer: Completes advanced particle size analysis. It is a modular instrument designed for measurement of wet and dry samples.

Versa Fluor Fluorometer: Is a fast and simple way to quantitate DNA, RNA, and proteins to detect apoptosis and to perform reporter enzyme assays with the high level of sensitivity and selectivity that fluorescent detection offers.

WM Keck Thin Film Analysis Facility: A suite of integrated ultra-high vacuum chambers and systems including a Kratos XSAM 800 electron spectrometer and a Panmure 6 axis goniometer for ion channeling analysis. In-situ deposition is possible in attached chambers that include physical vapor depositionand chemical vapor deposition.

X-Ray Powder Diffractometer: The Rigaku X-Ray Diffractometer is designed for powder diffraction from 5 to 160 degrees.

Microscopy
Confocal Microscope Facility: Confocal imaging of fluorescent specimens. The microscope is equipped with an argon laser, two He-Ne lasers, and a UV laser.

Electron Microscopy, Ultrathin Sectioning Facilities: The Zeiss EM 109 and JEOL 1010 electron microscopes are instruments in the Microscopy Facility in the Life Science Research Facility. The Microscope Facility is designed to analyze the structure of samples with a variety of microscopes, producing photographic or digital images.

Scanning Electron Microscope: The Cambridge Stereoscan 240 Scanning Electron Microscope has a useful magnification range from 28x to 280,000x operating at an acceleration potential of 0.5kV to 30kV. Imaging is by secondary electron detection and image capture is by an Orion 6 image capture card and associated software.

Speech Technology
Psycholinguistics Laboratory: Kay Elemetrics Computer Speech Laboratory. Used for analyzing, editing, and modifying speech or other acoustic signals.

TIP: For more information and contacts for any of the shared resources, contact the Office of the Vice President for Research.

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