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Equipment

Animal Behavior Core - Psychiatry

• Barnes maze for rats 
• Custom-made Zero Maze, Plus Maze, eight-arm radial maze, water maze (rat and mouse) 
• Focused beam nociception apparatus
• IR beam-activated activity chambers (12)
• MiniMitter home cage activity (seven)
• Mouse operant chambers (six)
• Noldus Observer (complex analysis of individual and social behaviors from video)
• Overhead video camera + slave computer + Noldus Ethovision movement tracking (two)
• Persolt Forced Swim cylinders
• Plethysmographs (four chambers)
• Rat operant chambers (12)
• Rotorod 
• Tail suspension set-up 
• UltraSonic vocalization recording chambers CPN

Biobank

• -80 degree Celsius freezers
• Centrifuges
• Biological safety cabinet
• Liquid nitrogen freezer

Biomedical Materials Science Labs

• Atomic force microscope (AFM)
• Bi-axial mechanical testing system (ADMET eXpert 8602)
• Ceramic CAD/CAM system
• CNC toolroom lathe (Haas TL 1)
• CNC vertical milling machine (Haas Mini Mill)
• Differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and differential thermal analysis (DTA)
• Fourier Transform infrared spectrophotometer
• Gamry series corrosion testing equipment
• High elongation screw machine (MTS Sintech)
• High resolution X-ray diffraction system
• ICP-MS with laser ablation
• Laser confocal microscope
• Mini frame flex test system
• Multi-frame flex test system 
• Nano indenter (MTS G200)
• Orbital bearing wear tester/hip simulator
• Optical and fluorescence microscope with live cell culture chamber
• Potentiostat corrosion testing equipment
• SpectroMaxx compositional analysis
• Thermo-Gravimetric Analyzer (TGA) and Thermo-Mechanical Analyzer (TMA)
• Three-axial mechanical testing system (MTS 858 Bionix System)
• Uni-axial dynamic mechanical analysis testing system (TA Instruments electroforce 3220 series III)
• Uni-axial mechanical testing systems (MTS 810 and 812 Testing Systems)
• X-ray microtomography (Micro-CT)
• Zeiss scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and electron backscattered diffraction capabilities

Cancer Animal Imaging Core

• IVIS Spectrum in vivo optical imaging system

Flow Cytometry Core

• BD Biosciences LSRII Flow Cytometer
• BD Biosciences FACSymphony A3 Cell Analyzer
• BD Biosciences FACSAria Fusion Cell Sorter

Histology Core

• Cool cut microtome
• Cryostat (two)
• Embedding Center
• Gemini automatic stainer w/ coverslipper
• Microtome
• Nikon Eclipse 80i microscope station
• Nikon Imaging System
• Table Top processor
• Tissue Processor
• Vibrotome

Imaging Core - Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience (CPN)

• Leica cryostat CM 3050S
• Leica cryostat CM 1860
• Leica DMi8-SP8-LIA confocal microscope
• Leica stereomicroscope
• Nikon 600 Light microscopes with MBF Stereoinvestigator and Neurolucide software
• Nikon C1+ confocal scanning microscope

Mass Spectrometry Core - Department of Pharmacology

• 4000 QTRAP LC/MC System
• 5500 QTRAP LC/MS System
• Ultimate 3000 HPLC System

Metabolic Phenotyping Core

• ECHO MRI - Quantitative magnetic resonance (QMR) technology 
• Sable System, ACCUSCAN and Columbus Instruments (metabolic cages)
• VEVO 3100 and 2100 - High frequency ultrasound imaging and photoacoustic imaging 

Molecular and Genomics Core

• 10X Chromium single cell instrument
• Affymetrix GeneChip Scanner 3000 7G system
• Beckman CEQ 8000XL GeXP genetic analysis system
• Bio-Rad CFX384 real-time PCR detection system
• Bio-Rad CFX96 real-time PCR detection system
• Bio-Rad ddSeq single cell isolator
• Bio-Rad Experion bioanalyzers
• DNAstar Suite sequence analysis tools
• Illumina iSeq platform
• Illumina MiSeq platform
• Illumina NextSeq500 platform
• KingFisher Flex Magnetic Particle Processors -96 and 24 head
• MP Biomedical FastPrep -96 instrument
• NanoDrop ND-1000 and 1 NanoDrop One Microvolume UV-Vis spectrophotometer
• Onsite and Cloud Illumina BaseSpace platform
• Perkin Elmer Zephyr G3 NGS workstation
• QIAxcel Advanced System
• Qubit fluorimeter
• QX200 Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) system

Pediatric/Fetal Echocardiogram Core

• Digital pediatric scales (two)
• Ergonomic echo tables (six)
• GE Vivid Q ultrasound unit
• Philips EKG machines (two)
• Philips EPIC7c ultrasound Units (two)
• Philips IE33 ultrasound Units (eight)
• Tilt table
• Treadmill

Pharmacology Shared Instruments

• Bio-Plex cytokine profiler
• Cell dissociator
• MacsQuant flow cytometer
• Nikon C2+ confocal microscope
• Seahorse
• Ultrasound Visionics 3100