Equipment and Supplies
Core-Provided Equipment
- Three Class II certified biosafety cabinets*
- Four shared incubators with three shelves each, 5% CO2, and a 37°C humidity-controlled chamber with sterilized deionized water
- Tabletop centrifuge with protective caps for infectious material**
- Inverted compound microscopes
- Automated cell counter***
- Vacuum trap system for liquid waste
- Water bath at 37°C
- Upright standard fridge (4°C) to store cell media
- Freezer (-20°C) to store assay reagents
- Bins for biohazardous waste and sharps containers for any glass pipettes or vials
- Small biohazard waste bags for pipette tips
*70% ethanol spray bottles, Kimwipes, electric pipettors, and micropipettes are available
**There is only one rotor available with swinging buckets and it is limited to spinning 15ml and 50ml centrifuge tubes
***Glass hemocytometer slides are also available
Core-Provided Materials
- Micropipette tips (10, 200, and 1000 uL)
- Microcentrifuge tubes (0.5 and 1.5 mL)
- Centrifuge tubes (15 and 50 mL)
- Culture flasks (T75 and T175)
- Filter bottles for media preparation (500 mL)
- Gloves (S, M, L)
- Bleach
- Reagent Reservoirs
- Cell counting slides / Trypan Blue for automated cell counter.
- Liquid nitrogen storage
The user needs to provide any other material not mentioned in the lists above (this includes, but is not limited to: Cell lines, cell media, assay plates, assay reagents, PPE, etc.)