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Our laboratories and instrument facilities are located in the Norman W. Church Laboratory of Chemical Biology and the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis. The Hsieh-Wilson lab-space consists of:
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Main Labs
Students and postdocs work in the four laboratory rooms on the first floor of Church. This lab-space contains our fume hoods, benches, and desks, and was recently renovated in 2008. In order to facilitate communication between lab members, all room are connected via a common walkway.
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Longitudinal view of the labs |
Student desks |
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A chemist's fume hood |
A biologist's bench |
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Solvent system for drying organic solvents |
Rotary evaporator (one per chemist in the lab) |
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Automated column for large-scale column chromatography |
Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) for characterizing polymers |
Conference Room
Our conference room is equipped with a state-of-the-art projection system, two PCs and one Macintosh computer for group usage, two printers, an overhead projector, scanner, bookshelves, and a whiteboard. The kitchen sink, fridge, and coffee area are also located in this room (which doubles as a breakroom).
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Long-table for group meetings |
Kitchen and coffee area |
Instrument Room
The instrument room is located across the hall from our main laboratories and contains our analytical instruments, sample-handing equipment, storage freezers, and refrigerators.
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Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer |
UV-visible spectrometer |
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Lyophilizer for freeze-drying samples |
Vacuum concentrator |
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Imaging system for Western blot analysis |
Orbital shaker and centrifuge |
Microscope Room
Originally a microscope room in the basement of Crellin building, we have expanded our instrument room into this room as well.
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Fluorescence microscope |
Cryostat for preparing frozen tissue sections |
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Isothermal titration calorimeter (ITC) for quantifying protein-glycan interactions |
Plate reader for photometric and fluorescent-based assays |
Auxiliary Rooms
In addition to the aforementioned spaces, our lab is also equipped with a cold room, tissue culture room, and gel electrophoresis room. All three rooms are located across the hallway from the main labs, on the first floor of Church building.
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Cold room |
Fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) |
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Tissue culture room |
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine |
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Gel electrophoresis apparatus |
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Other side of the gel room |
