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 Equipment List - Full PDF 

 

UC Santa Barbara Site

UC Riverside Site 

Cal Poly Pomona Site

  • MBraun Custom 9' x 20' Environmental Chamber - Houses 15 pieces of equipment. Atmospheric control (Pure nitrogen, can supplement with <4% hydrogen and/or <10% carbon dioxide)
  • Thermo Spinnaker Robotic Plate Mover - Plate transfer, lidding/delidding
  • 2 Thermo Cytomat 2 C450-Lin shaking incubators - Each: 42 standard or 14 deepwell microplate capacity, 4-50°C, shaking) 
  • Tecan Fluent 780 workstation with Pickolo colony picker & vacuum manifold - Liquid handler (0.5 µL to 1 mL per dispense; 8 channel head w/ independent channels, 96 channel head. Heating, cooling, shaking, and magnetic blocks
  • Beckman Echo525 Acoustic liquid handler - Small volume liquid handler (25 nL to ~1.5 µL per dispense)
  • Thermo Multidrop Combi liquid handler - Bulk dispensing, 6-1536w plates, 0.5 to 2500 μL dispense range
  • HiG4 centrifuge - Microplate format, deepwell compatible, 5000 xg max spin 
  • 2 Thermo ATC Thermocyclers - 96x and 384w format 
  • Agilent BioTek Cytation C10 confocal imaging & multimode plate reader - Automated spinning disk confocal and widefield microscopy with 6 objectives including 60x water immersion; UV/Vis absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence; environmental control
  • Agilent BioTek Synergy H1 multimode plate reader - UV/Vis absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence
  • Beckman CytoFlex S 4-B2-Y4-R3 flow cytometer - Non-sorting; 4 lasers, 13 fluorescence detection channels, tube or 96w format
  • Distek BIOne 1250 Bioreactor - Precision cell culture; 2 L vessel (max working vol 1.5 L) 
  • Cytek Aurora CS 4L FACS system - Cell sorting; 4 lasers, full-spectrum detection
  • HBio BTX Gemini X2 electroporation system with HT200 - 96w format
  • QSonica Q500 multiprobe sonicator - Cell lysis with 24 probe head
  • Omni Bead Ruptor Elite bead beater - Cell lysis, holds 24 sample tubes 
  • Thermo Vitrobot Mark IV system - Semi-automated cryo-EM sample prep
  • Molecular Devices ImageXpress HCS.ai high content imager  - Automated spinning disk confocal and widefield microscopy with 4 objectives including 40x water immersion
  • 3x Innova 44/44R stackable incubator shakers (BNL partner facility) - 3 large orbital shakers for cell culture, 25-300 RPM, 4-80°C
  • Beckman Optima XE-90 Ultracentrifuge (BNL partner facility) - Max g force 694,000 xg; swinging bucket rotor (6 x 13.2 mL), fixed-angle rotor (8 x 39 mL); 0-40°C
  • Union Biometrica BioSorter large particle sorter - Sorts particles between 10-1500 µm
  • Thermo Multidrop Combi liquid handler - Bulk dispensing, 6-1536w plates, 0.5 to 2500 μL dispense range 
  • Agilent 5300 Fragment Analyzer - Automated, 48 channel capillary electrophoresis; high-resolution size separation of nucleic acids; sample purity and quality analysis
  • Orbitrap Ascend Tribrid with Thermo Vanquish Neo UHPLC (LC-MS) - Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry; best for proteomics, metabolomics and structural characterization
  • TSQ Altis Plus Triple Quad with Thermo Vanquish Flex UHPLC (LC-MS) - Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry; best for targeted analysis of proteins and metabolites
  • ISQ7610 GC-MS with TriPlus RSH Autosampler - Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; best for analysis of volatiles, lipids and low MW metabolites
  • Bruker NeofleX Imaging MALDI TOF/TOF - Standard sample and imaging MALDI mass spectrometer; best for rapid metabolite screening, biomolecule and polymer analysis, spatial analysis
  • Tecan Fluent 780 Work Station - Liquid handling for molecular, biochemical, or cellular workflows. 0.5 µL to 1 mL per dispense; 8 channel pipetting head w/ independent channels; 96 channel head; heating, cooling, shaking, and magnetic blocks 
  • Tecan Spark UV/Vis Plate Reader - Absorbance detection for molecular, biochemical, cellular assays (96w, 384w) 
  • Rotanta 460 Robotic Centrifuge - Molecular, biochemical, cellular workflows, microplate format, deepwell compatible, 5000 xg max spin
  • Liconic StoreX STX44 Incubator - Cell culture, temperature control, 44 microplate and 20 deep well capacity, 4-50°C, shaking 
  • S&P Robotics Biomatrix BM3-BC Bench-top Configuration - Automated, high-throughput cell transfer, cell pinning 
  • Pin replicator head 96 pins - Static pin replication head for cell transfer (liquid to liquid, solid to solid, liquid to solid, solid to liquid)
  • Pin replicator head 384 pins - Static pin replication head for cell transfer (liquid to liquid, solid to solid, liquid to solid, solid to liquid) 
  • Colony picking head 96 pins - Dynamic pin replication head for colony picking and re-arraying (liquid to liquid, solid to solid, liquid to solid, solid to liquid)
  • S&P Robotics SPImager-A3 - Colony imaging over time (incubates up to 160 SBS plates)
  • Geneva Scientific Incubator Model I-41NL - S&P Robotics SPImager-A3 sits inside this incubator (4-44°C)
  • PhenoTypic custom image analysis software - Automated quantification of colony growth rate, morphology, color 

 

  • Opentrons Flex liquid handling robot Opentrons NGS Workstation w/ HEPA UV - Liquid handling, molecular, biochemical, or cellular workflows, assay setup
  • Temperature block - 96w format or individual microtubes (4--95°C)
  • Heater/Shaker block - 96w format or individual microtubes (Ambient - 95°C, 300-3000 RPM)
  • Absorbance block - Measures the optical density of samples, 96w format 
  • Thermocycler block - 96w format or individual microtubes (4-99°C)
  • Isolation Bio Prospector Discovery Platform - Automated generation of microbial libraries
  • HBio BTX Gemini X2 electroporation system with HT200 - 96x format 
  • Infors HT Minitrons Incubator Shaker - 96w format or individual tubes, 4-65°C, 50-400 RPM
  • Excella E-25R Incubator Shaker - 96w format or individual tubes, 4-65°C, 50-400 RPM 
  • Heratherm Static Incubator (x2) - 96w format or individual tubes, ambient+5-75°C
  • Oxford Nanopore MinION Mk1D - Long or short reads of DNA or RNA fragments, ideal for small genomes and targeted application sequencing, such as: bacterial metagenomics, bacterial isolates, bacterial whole genomes, viral genomes, full length 16S/18S rRNA, whole transcriptomes and smaller transcriptomes
  • 2 New Brunswick Innova 42 high temperature incubator shakers - Growth of thermophilic microbes; 19 mm orbit, 25-400 RPM; ambient + 10-95°C; 50 ml - 2 L volumes, up to 8 L culture total; continuous, timed, or multi-step programming

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Instruments

Agilent 5300 Fragment Analyzer

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

Parallel capillary electrophoresis for qualitative and quantitative analysis of nucleic acids, equipped with a 48-capillary array.

Agilent Cytation 10 Confocal Imager

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

The Cytation C10 confocal imaging reader combines automated confocal and widefield microscopy with conventional multimode microplate reading in a unique, proprietary design.

Agilent PlateLoc Plate Sealer

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

The Agilent PlateLoc Thermal Microplate Sealer is the premier fully automatic thermal heat sealer for the lab.

Azenta XPeel Plate Peeler

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

The Automated Plate Seal Remover automatically removes seals from a wide range of microplate types with the single touch of a button

Beckman CytoFlex S Flow Cytometer

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

The Cytoflex S is a flow cytometer equipped with 4 lasers. It has the option for a tube or 96-well plate loader.

Beckman Echo 525 Liquid Handler

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

Specifically designed for use in genomic, synthetic biology and proteomic workflows, the Echo 525 Liquid Handler is the first system to transfer liquids in 25 nanoliter droplets to attain larger transfer volumes faster.

Beckman Optima XE-90 Ultracentrifuge

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

It is a current model preparative model centrifuge used for pelleting fine particulate fractions such as nucleic acids, DNA, cellular organelles, microsomes, and viruses.

BioNex HiG4 Centrifuge

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

The BioNex HiG centrifuge delivers the highest speed of any robot accessible centrifuge on the market today.

BioRad ChemiDoc

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

The ChemiDoc Imaging System provides fast, reliable, and sensitive imaging and documentation of gels and chemiluminescence western blots.

BTX Gemini X2 HT System, 96 Well w/Ht200 Harvard Apparatus

Institution: UC Riverside

Gemini X2 Twin Wave Electroporators offer flexibility for electroporation of all cell types.

Distek BIOne 1250 Bioreactor

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

The BIOne 1250 is specifically engineered to cater to both mammalian and microbial models, and a user-friendly touchscreen interface.

Eppendorf Benchtop Centrifuge

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

Finneran-Povair Ultra Seal Pro Plate Sealer

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

The Ultraseal™ PRO is an automated heat-applied microplate and tube rack sealer.

Geneva Scientific Incubator Model I-41NL

Institution: UC Riverside

Housed in a Geneva Scientific Incubator that can hold and image plates in temperatures from 4C to 45C. The entry for the Geneva Scientific Incubator should be deleted as it is part of the imager system.

Isolationbio Prospector Discovery Platform

Institution: UC Riverside

The system self-sorts individual microbes into 6000+ nanoscale cultivation chambers, growing thousands of micro-colonies in parallel.

Neoflex MALDI TOF-TOF

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

Designed for speed and flexibility within a small footprint for driving translational context for MALDI Imaging and beyond.

New Brunswick Innova 42 High Temperature Incubator Shakers

Institution: Cal Poly Pomona

For growth of thermophilic microbes

OMNI Bead Ruptor Elite

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

A high-performance bead mill homogenizer engineered for high-throughput, automated homogenization of tough tissue, plant, and microbial samples.

Opentrons NGS Workstation w/Hepa UV

Institution: UC Riverside

For scaling up and fully automating end-to-end NGS library prep.

Oxfold Nanopore MinION Mk1D

Institution: Cal Poly Pomona

A cutting-edge, palm-sized sequencer enabling real-time sequencing in diverse environments.

S&P Robotics Biomatrix Bench-top Configuration (Pinning)

Institution: UC Riverside

Automated walk-away robot for applications that require moderate plate-capacity per run (up to 48 plates per run).

S&P Robotics SPImager-A3

Institution: UC Riverside

For capturing and analyzing images of yeast and bacteria colonies or other biological samples.

Tecan Fluent 780 Liquid Handler

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

A flexible workstation designed for precise, high-throughput liquid handling in labs

Tecan Fluent 780 W/ Spark UV/Vis Plate Reader and Centrifuge

Institution: UC Riverside

Tecan Fluent 780 liquid handler with integrated UV/Vis Plate reader, Liconic incubator and Hettich Centrifuge. UV/Vis plate reader can read absorbance from 200-1000nm and fluorescence. The Liconic incubator has a temperature range of 4C-70C and can hold 20 deepwell plates and 44 microplates. The Hettich centrifuge can hold up to 16 microplates/ 4 deepwell plates, reach temperatures from -20C to 40C and has a max RPM/RCF of 6200/6446

Thermo ATC-384 well, Thermal Cycler

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

A small, easy-to-integrate, and compatible format, enables hands-free PCR results.

Thermo ATC-96 well, Thermal Cycler

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

A small, easy-to-integrate, and compatible format, enables hands-free PCR results.

Thermo Cytomat 2C Incubator (x2)

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

The Cytomat 2 C-LIN automated incubator provides an ideal environment for storage and incubation of assays in a temperature range of ambient +10° to 50°C, with high humidity up to 95% r.H. and stable CO2 conditions.

Thermo GCMS, ISQ7610 with TriPlus RSH Autosampler

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

Ideal for high-throughput laboratories performing food, environmental, pharma, petrochemical or forensic toxicology testing.

Thermo LCMS, Ascend Orbitrap Tribrid with Vanquish Neo UHPLC

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

a high-resolution mass spectrometer that is capable of operating over an extended mass range of m/z 40 - 16,000 and is coupled with a Vanquish Neo UHPLC system to perform LC-MS analysis.

Thermo LCMS, TSQ Altis Plus Triple Quadrupole with Vanquish Flex UHPLC

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

Helps researchers address critical analytical challenges using robust, reliable, and sensitive targeted quantitation.

Thermo Multidrop Combi+ Dispenser (x2)

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

Handles a wide selection of plates and volume range and provides fast dispensing and high-throughput operation.

Thermo Spinnaker Robotic Plate Mover

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

Promotes automation adoption by users of any experience level through unmatched ease of use and reliability.

Thermo UHPLC, Vanquish Flex with UV/Vis Detector

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

Integrated, fully biocompatible state-of-the-art binary UHPLC system with ultra-low gradient delay volume, designed to provide unrivaled performance for high resolution and high-throughput LC and LC-MS applications.

Thermo Vitrobot

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

Offers fully automated vitrification, fast and easy. It performs the cryo-fixation process at constant physical and mechanical conditions like temperature, relative humidity, blotting conditions and freezing velocity.

Union Biometrica BioSorter

Institution: UC Santa Barbara

The BioSorter® is a continuous flow system capable of analyzing, sorting and dispensing objects ranging in size from 10 to 1,500 µm.