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Core facilities are shared user facilities intended for use in multiple teaching and training activities. They are primarily designed for teaching purposes, allowing development of laboratory experiments to supplement lectures on biomedical engineering topics. These facilities are also used regularly by BMEN graduate students and faculty for research projects.
325A ZACH
The Biomaterials Preparation facility is designated to support teaching and research efforts related to the synthesis, formulation, and fabrication of biomaterials. This laboratory directly supports undergraduate laboratory courses (BMEN 305 and 306). This laboratory is equipped with two fume hoods, a lyophilizer, centrifuges, hot plates, water baths, an oven, a UV transilluminator, a spincoater, and a UV source for lithographic patterning of microstructures.
325B ZACH
The Biomaterials Characterization facility is designated to support teaching and research efforts related biomaterials characterization. This laboratory directly supports undergraduate laboratory courses (BMEN 305 and 306). This facility provides students hands-on experience with multiple experimental techniques useful to determine critical properties of biomaterials. This laboratory is equipped a Nikon inverted microscope (Eclipse TE2000-S), thermal gravimetric analyzer (TGA, TA Instruments Q50), and rheometer (Physica MCR301).
325E ZACH
The Cell and Tissue Culture facility provides resources to support graduate research and undergraduate training in the maintenance, observation, and manipulation of mammalian cells. The two-room suite contains an inverted phase microscope, a biological safety cabinet, a humidified CO2 incubator, a cryogenic storage dewar, a heated water bath, as well as 4oC, -20oC and -80oC freezers.
116B WERC
Equipped as a complete Cell and Tissue Culture facility, this laboratory hosts research projects headed by several BMEN professors. These projects include evaluating the effects of mechanical stress on cells, imaging of tissue constructs, and evaluation of new fluorescent tagging techniques. The lab features a fully automated confocal microscope imaging system consisting of a Nikon TE2000 microscope, with 488/514 argon, 543 HeNe, and 633 HeNe lasers, as well as fluorescent imaging capabilities.
