To support our routine workflows, the Biotechnology department owns or has access to the following standard instrumentation at Research Park iNOVA:
- Biomek 3000 pipetting robot
- Tabletop mini-centrifuges and vortexers
- Heat blocks
- General scale
- Precision Scales (0.02-410 g and )
- Bench scale
- Sample rotators (Duomax 2030 and Hulamixer)
- Water Purifier (iNOVA owned)
- -20 freezers
- -80 freezer (iNOVA owned)
- Centrifuges
- Refrigerated, fixed-rotor centrifuge
- Fixed-rotor centrifuge
- Refrigerated, swing-bucket centrifuge (iNOVA owned)
- Microscopes
- Leica DM1000 dissecting scope
Specialized Instruments or Equipment
Specialized instruments not in routine use are also available when needed for a specific research project
- Texture Analyzer
- HPLC (separating and purifying components in a mixture)
- OFF-Gel fractionator (separating proteins from complex mixtures by isoelectric focusing for downstream identification and quantification by Western Blot or Mass Spectometry)