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BRDF Lab Fact Sheet (pdf)

The Biotechnology Research & Development Facility (BRDF) was founded in 2010 in the Innovation Center with the goal of facilitating both research and education at Ohio University. The facility provides state-of-the-art instrumentation for chemical and biochemical analysis for Innovation Center start-up businesses and campus-wide researchers.

BRDF is also available to the community, including local colleges as well as the industrial sector. BRDF provides a variety of advanced methods and research consultation in the design and implementation and facilitating clients research needs. The Innovation Center's fast-growing, state-of-the-art equipment is provided for our clients to fulfill their desired research goals and assist in developing their technology toward commercialization and ultimately to market.

BRDF staff includes a lab director familiar in chemical and biochemical instrumentation who will provide training to clients, researchers and students for all the available instruments and equipment and assist in facilitating clients' research goals, troubleshooting problems and data interpretation. 

Another service the lab director can provide is guidance in the commercialization aspects of a technology for Innovation Center clients. The transfer of technology, device or drug from research and development to market; design control, manufacturing and quality control procedures and understanding the regulatory issues are all critical in the success of small bio-tech businesses.

Available Instruments and Equipment

The Innovation Center facility provides researchers access to state of the art equipment and instruments to conduct a variety of chemical and biological experiments. Instruments and equipment include: 

• High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with a dual pump system and auto sampler to separate various complex mixtures to individual components utilizing a dual detection system (i.e. photo-diode array and fluorescence detectors) and fraction collector (Shimudzu)
• StepOnePlus Real Time PCR and Thermocycler (Applied Biosystems)
• Programmable multi-modemicro plate reader (luminescence, fluorescence, and UV-Vis detection) for 96/384 multi-well plates and u1 volume testing adapter. (Biotek)
• Multi-well micro plate washer (Biotek)
  
• Programmable Cycle Lypholizier (Virtis)
  
• Multi-cell or single cell UV-VIS Spectrotometer with thermal printer (Thermo Scientific)
  
• Cryogenic Tissue Homogenizer System (Fisher Scientific)
  
• Two Class II Bio-safety Cabinets for bacteria and virus work and mammalian cell/tissue culturing (Thermo Forma)
  
• Water-jacketed CO_² incubator, orbital shaker and inverted microscope
  
• Programmable ultra-high speed centrifuge with 3 variety titanium rotors (Beckman Coulter)
  
• High-temperature oven (VWR Scientific)
  
• Programmable environmental chamber (Thermo Scientific)
  
• Programmable temperature-controlled biofuge centrifuge (Thermo Scientific)
  
• Concept chemical fume hood (Fisher Hamilton)
  
• Hemavet
  
• Blood Analyzer (Drew)
• Two Water-jacketed CO2 incubators (Thermo Forma)
  

General Lab Equipment includes:

• Two Mettler Toledo analytical balances
• Hotplates (with and without stirring)
• Assorted glassware and disposables
  
• Multi-channel pipette and adjustable pipettes (0.2ul-1000ul)
• Bench top orbital shaker
• Inverted light microscope with 4X, 10X and 20X objectives
• pH meter
• Liquid Nitrogen Dewar
  
• Ice Maker
  
• Autoclave
• 20C upright freezer
  
• -80C upright freezer
  
• Millipore Water Purification System
• Mini plate spinner for PCR plates
• Gel box and power supply
• 2 - 8C refrigerator
• Computer work station with PASW Statistics 18 software

Coming soon!

• Sterling UltraCold under the counter adjustable temperature freezers
• Sterling UltraCold portable adjustable temperature freezers
• AMG Evos digital inverted fluorescence microscope
• Western Blot Testing and Imaging
  

Pricing for 2011/2012

Contact the Biotechnology Research & Development Facility 

Joe Jollick, Lab Director

T: 740.597.9018
F: 740.593.0186
icbiolabs@ohio.edu

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