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BRDF Continues to add new lab equipment!

There is a Fotodyne Gel imaging system, Thermo Scientific SpeedVac Concentrator Vacuum, and a Promega Maxwell 16 DNA/RNA purification system. Learn more about each of these pieces of equipment by taking a look at this PDF!

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 and 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 provides our clients the opportunity to fulfill their desired research goals. It also assists in developing their technology toward commercialization and marketing.

BRDF staff includes a lab director who is familiar in chemical and biochemical instrumentation. The lab director provides clients with training and researchers and students with available instruments and equipment. They also 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. This involves the transfer of technology which simply means taking a device or drug, from research and development, to the market. The commercialization aspect also involves design control.These are manufacture and quality control procedures and understanding the fact that 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)
• Three Water-jacketed CO2 incubators (Thermo Forma)
• AMG Evos digital inverted fluorescence microscope
• Western Blot Testing and Imaging

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)
• Two Bench top orbital shaker
• Inverted light microscope with 4X, 10X and 20X objectives
• Benchtop pH meter
• Portable pH meter
  
• Liquid Nitrogen Dewar
  
• Ice Maker
  
• Autoclave
• 20C upright freezer
  
• -80C upright freezer
  
• Millipore Water Purification System
• Mini plate spinner for PCR plates
• Vertical and horizontal gel boxes with power supply
• 2 - 8C refrigerator
• Computer work station with PASW Statistics 18 software
• Three Sterling UltraCold under the counter adjustable temperature freezers
• Three Sterling UltraCold portable adjustable temperature freezers

Pricing for 2012 - 2013

Contact the Biotechnology Research & Development Facility 

Joe Jollick, Lab Director

T: (740) 597-9018
F: (740) 593-0186
icbiolabs@ohio.edu

For additional needs such as genome sequencing, microarray assays, DNA/RNA, protein analysis and cell cytometry please contact the Ohio University Genomics Facility.

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