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Bioengineering Research Facilities and Resources
| The current core research facilities for the Department of Bioengineering, BIG and the CBR are located in Bourns Hall. Graduate students will have access to a large array of significant instrumentation, equipment and techniques. These include: |
Instrumentation and Equipment |
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Enzymatic digestion, capillary electrophoresis, 1H NMR, microcoil probe construction, LC-MS, Gel electrophoresis, imagining, fermentation, HPLC and GC, Surface plasmon resonance, zeta potential analyzer, streaming potential analyzer, spectrophotometers, fluorescent microscope and automatic titrator, potentiostat/gavalnostat, autoclave, spin coater, cell-culture, laser confocal microscope, quartz crystal microbalance, fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy, high throughput screening instruments, DNA/protein electrophoresis, incubators, 96-well cell harvester, static light scattering, osmometers, pulsed ultrafiltration modules, analytical GT and Flexstation. |
Training |
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Certification for cell handling at biological safety levels 1 and 2, use of enzymes, nucleic acids, fluorescent microscopes, optical instrumentation, mammalian cell tissue culture. |
Computational tools |
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Many tools including, COMSOL®, FLUENT®, Mathematica®, Matlab®, TableCurve® and several packages for the determination of biomolecular structure, dynamics, interactions, and analysis, among them NMRPIPE/NMRDRAW, NMRVIEW, CNS, CHARMM, NAMD, WHATIF, APBS, UHBD, GRASP, DELPHI, VMD, MOLMOL, SPDBV, INSIGHT II®, and GAUSSIAN®. |
Other resources |
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Students and researchers will also have access to facilities at the University of California such as:
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CBR (Center for Bioengineering Research)
BioCellular Engineering and Other Research Areas
Laboratory Facilities
Core Faculty
Recent Publications
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Education
Undergraduate Program