Tissue Culture Facility
- Laminar flow hoods
- Incubator
- Centrifuges
- Refrigerators
- -86 °C freezer
- Liquid nitrogen freezer
Flow system for cell adhesion studies
- Parallel and side-view flow chamber
- Digital syringe pump
- Cone-plate viscometer
- Personal Flow Cytometric System
Micropipette apparatus for cell motility studies
- 3D hydraulic micromanipulators
- Microinjector
- Pressure regulator
Viscometer for cell aggregation studies
- Temperature controlled
- Cone and plate – 60mm and 35 mm diameter, 1 degree cone angle
- Computer operated and computerized data collection with in-line data analysis
Migration assay for cell adhesion and migration studies
- Flow-migration chemotaxis chamber (under flow conditions)
- Boyden chamber (under static conditions)
Protein characterization and video microscopy
- Plate reader
- ELISA
- Gel electrophoresis and blotting systems
- Calcium ratiometric measurement system
- Inverted microscopes (featuring phase contrast, DIC and fluorescence)
- CCD-intensified video camera
- Super-VHS VCR
- Video monitors
- Video timers
- Video printers
Computer environment
- IBM-PCs and image processing system
The laboratory space is about 700 square feet and is located on the third floor of the Hallowell Building at the Penn State University, University Park campus.