The Salem Laboratory of Advanced Drug and Gene Delivery

Equipment available:

In our laboratory:

Lyophilizer/Freeze-dryer

Class II Cell Culture Facilities including cryochamber with extensive stock of cell lines.

Chemical Hoods, Wet Chemistry Equipment and Microfabrication and Particle Technology Equipment, -80 freezer

Plasmid Preparation Equipment, Gel Electrophoresis Equipment, Luminometer for measuring luciferase activity and a Nanodrop for extra sensitive low concentration detection.

Olympus CKX41 Fluorescent and Light Digital Microscope with three fluorescent channels and self-contained in small dark room. 

Zetaziser Nano ZS for measuring surface charge and particle size distributions of particles ranging from 0.6nm to large micron size particles

Each group member has individual desk space with individual desktop computers

High Performace Liquid Chromatography and Fluorescent/Luminescent Plate Reader

Within the Division of Pharmaceutics:

Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DCS7)

Multiple HPLCs

Malvern Particle Size Analyzers

Bohlin Rheometer

Diffusion Chambers

Freeze-dryers

Digital Contact Angle Goniometer 

plus many more.

Within the College of Pharmacy:

Bruker Avance 300 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer

Research Facilities available to group on Campus at the University of Iowa::

• Central Microscopy Research Facility: http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecemrf/
•     JEOL JEM-1230 Transmission Electron Microscope
•     Hitachi S-4000 Scanning Electron Microscope
•     Bio-Rad Radience 2100MP Multiphoton/Confocal Microscope
•     Kratos Axis Ultra X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy System

      Preparation Equipment: Balzers HPM-101 High Pressure Freezer Balzers 301 Freeze Fracture System Leica Cryosubstitution Unit Glass Knife Makers Diamond Knives Reichert Ultracut E Ultramicrotomes (2) Leica UC6 Ultramicrotomes (2) Leica FC6 Cryochamber Paraffin Microtomes Microm Cryostats (6) Ventana Automated Tissue Processors (2) Vacuum Evaporator Sputter Coater Critical Point Dryer Oxford Vibratome Sakura Auto Slide Stainer Centrifuges Ovens Photographic Darkrooms Digital Darkroom/Image Editing Workstation

   

• Animal Resources, Office of: http://research.uiowa.edu/animal/
• Biochem Stores: http://stores.biochem.uiowa.edu/
• DNA Facility: http://dna-9.int-med.uiowa.edu
• Electron Spin Resonance Facility: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/ESR/
• Flow Cytometry: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/FlowCytometry/
• Gene Transfer Vector Core: http://www.uiowa.edu/~gene/
• High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility: http://nmr.chem.uiowa.edu/
• High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Facility: http://research.uiowa.edu/vpr/units/hrmsf.htm
• Large Scale Fermentation Facility/Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing: http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ebiocat/
• Molecular Analysis Facility: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/maf/
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility, CCOM: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/nmr/
• Statistical Consulting Center: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/scc/
• Tissue Culture/Hybridoma Facility Laboratories: http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/hybridomacore/
• Transgenic Animal Facility: http://www.physiology.uiowa.edu/transgenic/

 
For questions regarding this web contact aliasger-salem@uiowa.edu 
Last updated: May 26, 2009. © Copyright 2008