Laboratory Equipment
Laboratory equipment is available to OHSU investigators, students and residents. OCTRI Core Laboratory staff will train users in the safe and proper use of the equipment. A usage fee may be required when using certain pieces of equipment.
Equipment includes the following:
- DPC IMMULITE chemiluminscent based analyzer
- ELISA plate reader
- Gamma counter (2)
- Scintillation counter
- Quantech fluorimeter
- Walk-in freezer and refrigerator
- Low temperature -80 freezers (10)
- Beckman DU 530 spectrophotometer
- Hewlett Packard HPLC systems (1200 series) including fraction collectors
- HPLC fluorescence detector
- HPLC Diode array detector
- Liquid Nitrogen storage facilities
- CO2 tissue culture cabinets (2)
- Biosafety hood
- Fume hoods (2)
- Centrifuges and microfuges (7)
Molecular Biology Related Equipment
- Applied Biosystems ABI Prism 3130XL genetic Analyzer and Sequencer
- ABI Prism Genescan and DNA sequencing analysis software
- MJ Research Tetrad 4 block PCR machine
- Applied Biosystems 9700 and 9800 PCR thermocyclers
- Gel-Doc Imaging system
- DNAstar sequence alignment software
- Electrophoresis system for agarose and acrylamide gels(s)
Low Temperature Storage
Large capacity walk-in refrigerator (5C) and freezer (-20C) Ten ultra low temperature freezers (-80C) and liquid nitrogen storage containers are also available for long term storage of biological samples.
