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Cell Culture
The facility also includes a full range of equipment and facilities for specimen
preparation including a large tissue culture suite.
There are two Class II
biosafety cabinets for tissue culture as well as 6 CO2 37°C
incubators; a chilled incubator and a nitrogen fed incubator for precise oxygen
environment control.
Robotic cell handling
A Thermo Fisher WorkCell automated
robot system automate processing of multi-well tissue culture plates for
immuno-fluorescence and also tissue culture.
A Perkin Elmer Janus
and Envision liquid handling robot and pate reader are available for automated
liquid handling. Contact Facility Staff for details.
Centrifuges
The facility houses a number of Beckman Coulter
ultra centrifuges including a bench top
OptimaMax;
Optima L100 and the high throughput
Avanti J26 XP.
Bench space
Two lab benches are set aside for
visiting collaborators. Please contact Tony Collins,
Tony Collins
or your collaborator at McMaster to enquire about using the bench space in the
facility.
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