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Research Facilities

Research facilities in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Windsor can be found on the departmental website. Dr. Marcus Drover has a nice list for synthetic chemists. Some of the instruments are suitable for the characterization of biomolecules. Below is a list of instruments available for our research program as a protein biochemistry lab.

Molecular Biology

  • Thermocylcer (CORe 205)

Protein Production

  • Refrigerated incubator shaker: Amerex Gyromax 777R (CORe 205C)
  • Bench-top orbital shaker: ThermoFisher MaxQ 4000 (CORe 205C)
  • Sonicator: QSonica Q500 (CORe 205C)
  • FPLC: GE Healthcare ÄKTA Pure 25L1 (CORe 205)

Biophysics

  • Light scattering: Zetasizer Nano ZS (CORe 1xx)
  • Plate readers:
    • Cytofluor Series 4000, multi-well fluorescence plate reader (ECL)
    • Thermo Labsystems, Luminoskan Acent, multi-well luminescence plate reader (ECL)
    • ​Tecan Spark multi-mode plate reader (GLIER-EGF)
    • Perkin Elmer Victor3V plate reader (GLIER-EGF)
  • Infrared: Bomem DA3 FT-IR Spectrometer (Essex Hall)

Mass spectroscopy

  • Waters Xevo G2-XS Tof Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
  • Waters SYNAPT G2-Si Mass Spectrometer dedicated for measurements of protein and peptide samples

NMR Spectroscopy

  • Bruker Avance III 500 MHz, with TBI triple-resonance, BBFO double resonance probes and MAS II unit for solid-state NMR (CORe 1xx)

Crystallography

  • ​Nikon SMZ-800N Stereomicroscope (CORe 205F)
  • Bruker Apex - CCD Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer, Low-Temp. Attachment (CORe 104)