College of Arts & Sciences Core Facilities

College of Arts & Sciences

Electron Microscope Core

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core

Cell Biology Core

Mass Spectrometry/Peptide Facility

Solid State Structure

Stable Isotope Lab

Center for Geochemical Analysis, Plasma Instrument Laboratory

College of Arts & Sciences Core Facilities

Electron Microscope Core Facility

The Electron Microscope Core Facility provides microscope services to universities, industry, and commercial labs to include Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy, Transmitted and Fluorescent Light Microscopy, Specimen Preparation, and Instrument Training in TEM, SEM, Light Microscopy, and Consulting.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core (NMR)

The CAS NMR Facility specializes in measuring the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei, which make up the molecules that can become the drugs of the future. The NMR Core offers NMR spectrometers from low to intermediate fields and from manual to high throughput operation modes. Major equipment includes drx250 spectrometer, unityinova spectrometers (400, 500, 600) and direct drive (VNMRS) spectrometers (500, 600, and 800).

The Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology Core (CMMB) offers a wide range of resources to include products, education, services, and support that assist scientists, companies, and students in the solving of research problems.

Microarray

Flow Cytometry

Mass Spectrometry

Tissue Culture

Multiplex Luminex Systems

Cryogenic Repository

Cell Biology Core

The Mass Spectrometry/Peptide Core Facility provides services in peptide synthesis for users needing access to designer, natural, unnatural, and labeling peptide sequences in milligram scale as well as liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) for molecular detection and characterization.

Agilent 6540 LC/QTOF

Agilent 6460 LC/QQQ

Agilent LC/MSD

Dionex Summit HPLC Systems

Symphony Peptide Synthesizer

AVIV Model 215 Circular Dichroism Spectrometer

Mass Spectrometry/Peptide Facility

The Geochemical Research Laboratory Core specializes in the determination of trace metals in a variety of materials including water samples, environmental samples (e.g., soil, sludge) and most rock types.

The lab provides analysis to the public, research institutions, government agencies, and universities. Equipment includes Perkin Elmer Optima 2000DV ICP-OES, ARL DCP-OES, AFS, XRD, and an Ion Chromatograph.

Perkin-Elmer Elan DRC II Quadrupole Inductively Coupled

Plasma Mass Spectrometer

Perkin-Elmer S-200 High Performance Liquid

Chromatograph

Cetax LSX 213 Laser Ablation

Center for Geochemical Analysis, Plasma Instrument Laboratory

Stable Isotope Lab (USFSIL)

The Stable Isotope Lab offers analyses of both organic and inorganic samples (including C, H, O, N, and S elements) to researchers from geology, anthropology, biology, geography, and more.

The following analyses are available:

• δ13C and δ18O of carbonates (including shells, corals, limestone, speleothems, soil carbonates, and bioapatite)

• δ18O and δD of waters• δ13C of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC)• δ13C of atmospheric and soil CO2• δ13C, δ15N, %C, and %N of organics (including collagen, tissue, soil, and plant

material)• δ34S of sulfates (solid and solution)• δ34S of sulfides• δ34S of organics• δ18O of enamel phosphate• δD of volcanic glasses

Single crystal x-ray diffractometer

Powder x-ray diffractometer

UV/Visible spectrometer

Differential Scanning Calorimeter

Thermogravimetric analyzer

Sorption balances

Solid State Structure Core

College of Arts & Sciences

Electron Microscope Core

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core

Cell Biology Core

Mass Spectrometry/Peptide Facility

Solid State Structure

Stable Isotope Lab

Center for Geochemical Analysis, Plasma Instrument Laboratory

College of Arts & Sciences Core Facilities