Facilities and Equipment

The following equipment is located within the Biology Department or individual investigators’ laboratories of the Froiland Science Complex at Augustana University:

• Accuri Flowcytometer
• Agilent 1100 High-Speed Liquid Chromatographer
• Beckman Coulter CYTOflex Flow Cytometer with plate sampler
• Cepheid Smart Cycler for real time PCR
• Perkin-Elmer thermal cyclers
• Olympus confocal scanning laser microscope
• Leica inverted microscope with DIC, fluorescence, live imaging apparatus and video capability
• dissecting fluorescent microscope
• phase contrast microscope with epifluorescence
• research quality light microscopes and phase contrast microscopes
• Flaming/Brown micropipette puller
• scanning densitometer
• digital imaging station with 16-bit camera for imaging DNA gels, protein gels and chemiluminescent detection
• digital video editing workstation
• multifunction spectrofluorimeter plate reader with fluorescent and luminescent capability
• two biosafety cabinet for tissue culture and full tissue culture setup
• extracellular brain slice recording rig
• several types of spectrophotometers, UV cross-linker, centrifuges, microcentrifuges, speedvac concentrator, CO2 incubators, bacterial incubators, chicken egg incubators,  -80^oC freezers and other standard lab equipment.

In addition, facilities in the Froiland Science Complex include:

• a vivarium
• a triple environment greenhouse
• a growth chamber room with four environmental growth chambers
• a field vehicle
• a boat
• gear for terrestrial and aquatic field studies.