Specific Instrumentation/Equipment

The BSL3 Core laboratory is a fully self-contained facility for work with pathogenic microorganisms and includes the following:

• Four class II biohazard hoods
• Pass-through autoclave
• Stationary air and CO2 incubators, shaking incubator
• Centrifuge with micro-, low-speed, and high-speed rotors
• Electroporator
• Visible light spectrophotometer
• Tissue homogenizer
• Sonicator
• Inverted microscope
• -80 freezer and liquid nitrogen storage unit
• Cell lysis equipment